Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1882 — Southern Forests. [ARTICLE]

Southern Forests.

A Southern States paper gives some facts which show that those who prajje continually about the imminent exhaustion of forests leave a most important forest country out of account. The States of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansan, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and West Virginia contain in the oraet named 58 to 66 per cent of fdrest land/ whereas Maine and Michigan, which now produce one-half of the lumber used, contain only 47 and 40 per cent, of forest land. North Carolina, Louisiana' and Mississippi have an even greater pxtent of forest land still uhtduohed than the States just named,'- Neither is the world generally nwwje of th? good.

quality of the timber in the South. All the trouble'is that, owing to the absence of snow, the wood is not won so cheaply as in the North. But, with railways penetrating the country in all directions, this state of affairs will soon be altered, and it is useless not to recognize the facts.