FOREST AND WOOD SUPPLY OF THE UNITED STATES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1483, 15 February 1887, Page 3

FOREST AND WOOD SUPPLY OF THE UNITED STATES.

Some points of general as well as special tatetest have beeu developed by Mr W, N. Looktngton aa pertaining to the forests of the United States Ho snys that many imagine that, should the eastern fared s be exhausted, there is upon the Pacific .Coast an ineibanitible fond upon which -to draw. To dispel this idea he writes that the entire area cf the true Pac lie Coast forest is not larger than tbe •tate of California- This relative emailcess {a, however, to some extent, com* pensated for by density. The dense&t forest ii located upon the eastern shorts of Paget Hound, where over 200 cords per •ore can be oat. The district upon the Cascade Mountains m Oregon, that between the Const Range and the ocean north of San Francisco, and that of the western sloped of Sierra Nevada, tva only ■lightly I«bs dense. The entire area of the states east of tbe Mississippi, save a few small patches upon the coast, and In j ■onthern Florid*, northern w ieooneia and Minnesota, Missouri, the wettorn part of 3,^x«s ftod tha Indian Territory, and all ' Xiooiibna, save a belt along the Gulf •bore, are, according *o this authority, covered with a o ntinilons forest In tho •eblef timber exporting countries of Europe, namely, Norway and Sweden, no tree is now oat unless another is planted, aad only enough are cot; *o keep within the period of rotation . la time this ooqatry will doubtless be impelled to, adopt this »lan to keep op the supply of varioue ttlodi of wood. Woodwrfor.