. 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. 554 THE FORESTS OF THE UNITED i' "In Menominee and Delta counties, the soutliern part of Sclioolcraft county, and the extreme southern part of Marquette county are quite large quantities of tamarack and yellow cedar. From most of these lands the merchantable pine has been removed, and where the flres have not destroyed the cedar and tamarack the niilroad companies are cutting the timber and shi
. 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. 554 THE FORESTS OF THE UNITED i' "In Menominee and Delta counties, the soutliern part of Sclioolcraft county, and the extreme southern part of Marquette county are quite large quantities of tamarack and yellow cedar. From most of these lands the merchantable pine has been removed, and where the flres have not destroyed the cedar and tamarack the niilroad companies are cutting the timber and shipping it to the prairies for telegraph poles, ties, and posts. It is stated by the ownersof the lands, who long since cut the pine from them, that llio cedar and tamiirack trees left upon the land have netted them more than the original i)ine harvested. What makes this timber so valuable is its close proximity to the railroads and the ease witii whicli it can be shipped by rail or over the waters of Green bay. This shows the necessity of preserving tliis kind of limber for future use, antl of not abandoning it for taxes, as has heretofore been done, or allowing it to bo destroyed by lires and windfalls. " There are on the Menominee river some 9,000,000,000 feet of standing pine, one of the largest bodies left in the northwest. More than half of this, however, lies in the state of Wisconsin. About 200,000,000 feet of lumber are manufactured annually upon the Menominee. All the mills upon the river are located at its mojith, in the towns of Marinette and Menomonee, in Wisconsin, and it is considered next to impossible to build more mills at that point. The river is here narrow, ancl the facilities for holding logs, shipping lumber, dockage, etc., are quite lin)ited in jiroportion to the amount of timber left in the region tributary to this stream; and this body of jiino may therefore be considered to a certain extent in reserA'e, and likely to outlast many larger ones. Ther
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