The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 138 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. Winter in tJie forest. Mount Hood seen fiom Government Camp road. Twenty feet of snow. bring forth lumber for Australia, the Orient, South America, Europe andAfrica. Many of our own states, which a few years ago boasted inexhaust-ible forests, now draw from this supply. Since 1905 Washington has been the leading lumber-producing state ofthe Union, and Oregon has advanced, in one year, from ninth to fourth 1910 production of lumber in these states was 6,182,125,000 feet, or
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 138 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. Winter in tJie forest. Mount Hood seen fiom Government Camp road. Twenty feet of snow. bring forth lumber for Australia, the Orient, South America, Europe andAfrica. Many of our own states, which a few years ago boasted inexhaust-ible forests, now draw from this supply. Since 1905 Washington has been the leading lumber-producing state ofthe Union, and Oregon has advanced, in one year, from ninth to fourth 1910 production of lumber in these states was 6,182,125,000 feet, or cent, of the total output of the United States, The same states, it isestimated, have 936,800,000,000 feet of standing merchantable timber,or a third of the countrys total. This is the heritage which the centuries of forest life have the usufruct of it is rightfully ours. Even as legal owners, we are neverthe-less but trustees of that which was here before the coming of our race, andwhich should be here in great quantity when our trails have led beyond the range. Our duty isplain. L
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