. Report on the forest wealth of Canada [microform]. Forests and forestry; Forest protection; Forests and forestry; Forests and forestry; Foresterie; Forêts; Foresterie; Foresterie. FOREST WEALTH OF CANADA. 141 APPENDIX " ; SUPPLY AND CONSUMPTIOxN OF FOREST PRODUCTS IN THE UNITED STATES. (By B. E. Firnow, U. S. Forestry Report for 1893.) Regarding the supply of forest materials, which may be drawn from the virm'n fore^s st,l in existence, we have no data. The difficulties of obtaining even thTcrude t appmnnations, except for certain species, as the white pine, the "onX. nine t
. Report on the forest wealth of Canada [microform]. Forests and forestry; Forest protection; Forests and forestry; Forests and forestry; Foresterie; Forêts; Foresterie; Foresterie. FOREST WEALTH OF CANADA. 141 APPENDIX " ; SUPPLY AND CONSUMPTIOxN OF FOREST PRODUCTS IN THE UNITED STATES. (By B. E. Firnow, U. S. Forestry Report for 1893.) Regarding the supply of forest materials, which may be drawn from the virm'n fore^s st,l in existence, we have no data. The difficulties of obtaining even thTcrude t appmnnations, except for certain species, as the white pine, the "onX. nine the wlewood, etc., are not only great in the lirst place, for many reasons" but a estOl further mcreased by the fact that the methods of using the supplies ZUe with thdr ^Z'%.:t,"T^''^% of transportation, and with 'other L'onon c ^fe ifme^^^^^^^ Thus the statistics of white pine and longleaf supplies, given by the^Tentli Census in 1880, were as approximately correct as could be exited adverse ^riticisms notwithstanding; but the lengthening out of the supplies esEcklV of the while pine, beyond the time when those figures foretold their m-ic^^lTlJh^r^- i oTr^prtt^'f e''T,' *r '-'''f'''' ^'''- -'^^ tthrt:Kor rCn/?? to o< per cent-i. e., while during the census year in Wisconsin (VVausau) for instance theaorage log was, say, 200 feet per log or 18 inches in diameter in 1S3 it h,d dwindled down to 84 feet or n inches in diameter. While the cen^is statistic weti based on the then pract-'ce of taking nothing less then 10 inches iiSeter he lumbei ing IS now extended to logs as low as 5 or 6 inches in diameter "''"'"''"' *"" '""^b^^" No more striking statement of the decline in white pine supplies could be made than to cte the number of feet in logs which passed the nine lei in.^ 1' ;,, f£ peninsula of Michigan in 1887, namely, o,?l7,104,985 ^^ !igatt 505; 34 6 6 fe J m 1893, a decrease of nearly SO per cent, chargeable no
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