Certain features of German forestry . he dealer or middleman. The sprucelogs used in the home basket industry cost, delivered to the house,about $38 a thousand feet board measure. Different families pro-duce baskets of different sizes and quality, some of which sell as lowas 3 cents. The city of Lauter owns about 6000 acres of land upon which thegrowing stock of timber has increased from 54,000 cords in 1847on one district to over 100,000 cords today. The other district ofthe city forests shows even a greater increase. On the hills above Lauter is the forest known as Burkhardts-wald, facing th
Certain features of German forestry . he dealer or middleman. The sprucelogs used in the home basket industry cost, delivered to the house,about $38 a thousand feet board measure. Different families pro-duce baskets of different sizes and quality, some of which sell as lowas 3 cents. The city of Lauter owns about 6000 acres of land upon which thegrowing stock of timber has increased from 54,000 cords in 1847on one district to over 100,000 cords today. The other district ofthe city forests shows even a greater increase. On the hills above Lauter is the forest known as Burkhardts-wald, facing the factories at Aue and Lauter. The rapid develop-ment of the industries at these places and especially the metal-wareindustry, has played sad havoc in these woodlands. The formerowners (city of Zwickau) took no protective measures but broughtsuit against the state of Saxony, which is part owner of certaindye and metal-ware works in the valley below and which was heldresponsible in a large measure for the destruction of the forests 9i.
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