Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1882 — Timber Forests. [ARTICLE]

Timber Forests.

For general information, and to show the importance of guarding against the destruction of timber in the United States, the following items have been clipped from a Philadelphia paper: Captain T. H. Williams, of Mpnongahela City, Pa., is about to plant 16,000 walnuts. He will sow them m rows, after two years will thin them put, leaving the thrifty trees; in five years will . cur young walnut for table legs; in eight years will cut again alternate trees for newel posts; in ten years will begin to harvest nuts by the thousand bushel, and in fifteen years will have walnut Of over 760,000 square miles of timber lands in this country the south oWns 460,000, or nearly two-thirds. They will be sources of wealth in a few years to an extent little dreamed of at present. A New York firm ka9 contracted recently for 6,000,000 feet of ash, walnut, hickory and poplar in the three counties of JMadisonf Buncombe and Haywpod North Carolina. Many of the trees in western North Carolina are of gahftt size. .