. Report on the forests of North America [microform] : (exclusive of Mexico). Trees; Trees; Wood; Forests and forestry; Timber; Arbres; Arbres; Bois; Forêts et sylviculture; Bois d'oeuvre. THE FORESTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 555. Of this amount 485,552,000 feot were inniiu<acinrc«l along thf MiHsisnii)pl rivpr in Illinois, Iowa, and IVIisHouri â HH fur sontli as Saint Louis. The wooded region in Crawford, Richland, Sauk, and Vernon counties is estimated to contain 12,000,000 cords of hard wood in addition to some timber of commercial value. The cut for the ccnsiiH year ending May 31, 1880 (
. Report on the forests of North America [microform] : (exclusive of Mexico). Trees; Trees; Wood; Forests and forestry; Timber; Arbres; Arbres; Bois; Forêts et sylviculture; Bois d'oeuvre. THE FORESTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 555. Of this amount 485,552,000 feot were inniiu<acinrc«l along thf MiHsisnii)pl rivpr in Illinois, Iowa, and IVIisHouri â HH fur sontli as Saint Louis. The wooded region in Crawford, Richland, Sauk, and Vernon counties is estimated to contain 12,000,000 cords of hard wood in addition to some timber of commercial value. The cut for the ccnsiiH year ending May 31, 1880 (exclusive of 86,545,000 staves and 7,498,000 sets of headings), was 117,041,tMM) feet. Valuable oak timber exists in large quantities in Dunn, Pierce, and Saint ('roix counties. The cedar swamps scattered through the pine belt of the state cover an area of some 1,305,000 acres, and are estimated to contain 02,800,000 posts, telegraph poles, and railroad ties, in addition to huge quantities of tamarack and spruce. Wisconsin is the third state in the importance of its lumber-manufacturing interests. The great centers of manufacture are in the neighborhood of Ean Claire upon the Chippewa river, upon the Wisconsin river, and upon the shores of Green bay and lake Superior. Logs cut in the forests of Wisconsin supply also mills located on the Mississippi river in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri with material equivalent to nearly 500,000,000 Icet of lumber. The following is extracted from Mr. Putnam's report upon the forests of Wisconsin: "The southern boundary of the forest coincides with a line extending northwesterly from near the city of Milwaukee on lake Michigan, to the falls of Saint Croix on the Saint Croix river, and the western boundary of the state. This includes the heavy hard-wood as well as the pine forest. There is also, or there has been, a largo amount of hard-wood timber in the southeastern part of the state, south of this line, but as no large bodies of fores
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