Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1882 — Timber Exhaustion. [ARTICLE]

Timber Exhaustion.

United States Economist. The now well-known fact is that we are rapidly exhausting, largely by reckless and improvident waste, our supplies of timber in the Northefn States. The de nand for it inci eases at the rate of thirty per cent, a year, and even those who are interested in high prices and immediate sales of what is left of it admit that in twenty years or sooner, building “timber will be extremly scarce, and that in many parts of the country, yet Supplied in part from their own soil, it will have entirely disappeared. It is stated bn good authority that more than 65,000 establishments, employing 400,000 persons and using material to the value of over $150,000, 000 a year, are engaged in the United States in manufacturing articles entirely from wood in addition to 8,000,000 persons partly employed on wood or using that material yearly to the value of $6,000,000. No country can be .or ever has been despoiled of her timber and flourish