. Timber depletion, lumber prices, lumber exports, and concentration of timber ownership. Report on Senate resolution 311. Forests and forestry; Lumber; Timber. TIMBER DEPLETION^ PEICES, EXPOETS, AND OWNEBSHIP. 31 can be secured and the great limitation of tlie producing regions already discussed. The price of spirits of turpentine, which for very many years fluctuated slightly above and below 50 cents a gallon, had risen nearly five times to a price of $ early in 1920, and similar increases occurred in prices for various grades of rosin. With a prospective reduction in domestic production
. Timber depletion, lumber prices, lumber exports, and concentration of timber ownership. Report on Senate resolution 311. Forests and forestry; Lumber; Timber. TIMBER DEPLETION^ PEICES, EXPOETS, AND OWNEBSHIP. 31 can be secured and the great limitation of tlie producing regions already discussed. The price of spirits of turpentine, which for very many years fluctuated slightly above and below 50 cents a gallon, had risen nearly five times to a price of $ early in 1920, and similar increases occurred in prices for various grades of rosin. With a prospective reduction in domestic production, the United States is facing in the near future rapidly decreasing ability to export naval-stores products, and even within a few years to meet home demands from the southern pine territory. There are possibilities of development of the industry with other species in the West, but under much more adverse con- ditions as to accessibility, labor, etc. The only other possi- bilities are imports or the use of substitutes. ORIGINAL AND PRESENT FORESTS OF THE UNITED STATES. ORIGINAL FOREST AREA. The original forest area of the country is estimated to have been in the neighborhood of 822,000,000 acres. (See Table 3 and flg. ;) In the eastern United States a magnificent forest ^' Various terms found in these and other accomDanying tables and figures are used with the following meanings: " Saw-timber areas " and " saw-timber stands" are stands of saw- timber size In accordance with the prevailing logging and milling prac- tice of the region concerned. of old-growth timber, wonderfully rich in variety of species and quality of material, stretched in an almost unbroken ex- panse from the Atlantic Ocean to the prairies. Pines and other softwoods predominated in the north and along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, while In the Appalachians and on the fertile soils' of the Central States and the lower Mississippi Valley " Cordwood areas " and " cordwoo
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