...contained six hundred and fifty billion feet of timber; they now contain one hundred and thirtynine billion feet aside from considerable quantities of...the requirements of the Southern states themselves. These figures are quoted from a recent publication of the US Department of Agriculture. Their significance...

...forests of the Lake States, estimated at 350 billion feet, are now reduced to less than 8 billion. The virgin pine forests of the South are estimated...the requirements of the Southern States themselves. One-half of the timber remaining in the continental United States is in three States bordering the...

...estimated to have contained originally 650,000,000,000 feet of timber; they now contain 139,000,000,000 feet, aside [from considerable quantities of second...off, and within another decade promises to exceed but little, it at all, the requirements of the Southern States. One half of the timber remaining in...

...eastern and central states during the last twenty years was grown in the pine forests of the South. The cut of southern pine is falling off and within...requirements of the southern states themselves. The country is cutting more of every class of timber than it is growing. Even trees too small for the saw-mill...

...of the South now is gone. The lumber output in that region is falling and within another decade will exceed by little, if at all, the requirements of the Southern States themselves. ,So far has the using up of our timber gone that one-half of what we have left is in the three States...

...the last twenty years was grown in the pine forests of the south. But the cut of southern pine is now falling off and within another decade promises to...requirements of the southern states themselves. The shifting of the hardwoo:! industries has followed much the same course. The principal reserve of hardwoods...