Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1891 — Lots of Timber Jet. [ARTICLE]

Lots of Timber Jet.

Says a Western lumberman: “The signing of a contract for 600,000,000 feet of pine in Minnesota should serve as a reminder that the fear of American forests giving out is far from being an imaginary one. I have been handling lumber by the 10,000 feet for two-thirds-of a lifetime, but the figures in this deal took me by surprise, and it. wa3 some lime before I could realize them. The supply of lumber in the North is steadily giving out, as the figures for Michigan in particular show. Ten years ago the annual output or product was just about the sizo of the greatMinnesota contract for single companies, but the aggregate totals for 1890' barely reached these figures. We’are lavish and extravagant with our lumber now, but at the present rate of consumption there will be precious little left to consume a quarter of a century hence, even making allowance for. what we can draw from Mexico after Mr. Blaine’s reciprocity treaty has been drafted and signed.” It is with a seat in a street car as with, a riddle—one dislikes to give it up.