Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — Our Enormous Timber Wealth. [ARTICLE]

Our Enormous Timber Wealth.

The timber wealth of the United States gives a yearly product of over $1,000,000,000, or twice the value of the entire output of all the mines put together—gold, silver, coal. Iron, copper, zinc and the rest. '