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Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Forestry Congress, at Its Sessions Held at Cincinnati, Ohio, in April, 1882, and at Montreal, Canada, in August, 1882, Vol. 1: With a Notice of the Organization of the American Forestry Association United With It at the Montreal Session
When the forestry bulletins. Issued by Prof. C. S. Sargent from the Census Depart ment, announced that in both the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan there remained of standing white-pine timber, suitable for market, but feet, board measure, and that in the census year of 1880 there had been cut in the State feet, requiring only eight years at this rate to exhaust the supply; that in Wisconsin there were standing feet. With a cut of about three billions feet for that year, leaving a supply7 that would last but fourteen years that in Minnesota there were remaining 000 feet, and that were cut in the census year leaving a. Supply for fifteen years, that at this rate the-supply of white-pine lumber would be exhausted in these _three States in the brief period of about twelve years. The question of the future supply of this most valuable timber became serious to the business world.
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