Lumber Industry
the producbuilding purposes. The chief countries engaged in this industry are the United States, Canada, Russia, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, and France, to which may be added Brazil, British Guiana, Mexico, and other tropical countries as the producers of the hardwoods, such as mahogany, cyprus, etc. In France, Sweden, and especially Germany, the industry differs from that in the United States in that it includes the cultivation of the trees from which the timber is cut, the natural forests having long ago been depleted. The unlimited license hitherto given the cutting of timber in the United States has of recent years brought appreciably nearer the need of a similar organization of the production. The first step in this direction has already been taken in the establishment of the Forestry Service, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture, whose function it is to guard the national forests against fire, destructive insects and diseases and otherwise to encourage the growth of marketable timber, a certain amount of which is cut and sold each year under the supervision of the Bureau of Forestry. Because of this service the depletion of the timber lands of the country has been considerably checked.
The resources of the United States in marketable timber were estimated as follows in 1913: the total area of forests still uncut amounted to 545,000,000 acres; about 1,013 billion board feet of timber was available in the Pacific Northwest; 634 billion board feet in the South, mostly white pine; about 100 billion board feet in the Lake States, and 450 billion board feet scattered elsewhere throughout the country. Aside from this there was 600 billion board feet under the control of the Federal Government, on the national reservations, including Alaska, with another 90 billion on State government reservations. The production of ordinary building timber during THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, PARLIAMENT BUILDING, LONDON Enc. Vol. 6-p. 36 THE SILENT GUIDE PRESS THE BUTTON THE GUIDE DOES THE REST TIONS WHITE LIGHT THE SILENT GUIDE THE SILENT GUIDE PRESS批取 MAP OF LONDON Kadel & Herbert, N. Y.
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