Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1883 — Oregon’s Timber Supply. [ARTICLE]

Oregon’s Timber Supply.

The average yearly cut of lumber is Oregon and Washington for the lasi thirty-five years has been, in round numbers, 72,000,000 feet. Let us assume that for the next thirty years il will be three times as much, or 216,000,000 feet a year. At that rate ol forest destruction it would take 74C years to exhaust the timber ,now growing from the Columbia to tie Frazer, and from the sea backward to the eastern slopes of the Cascade mountains. At an average lumber consumption o) 500,000,000 feet a year, there is a forest sufficient to last 320 years, and in that time the timber first cut would be re produced. Last year the Paris cabmen restored 27,000 pieces of property left in theii cabs. Honest cabmen are rewarded ii order to encourage the rest. The weakest spot in any man is whert he thinks himself the strongest. —Em mom.