anaheim-gazette 1907-09-12

THE NATIONAL FORESTS AND THE LUMBER SUPPLY A point in the industrial progress of the United States has now been reached where development of the country is made, not in the face of the forest but with its essential aid. The old process of exhausting the supply of timber in a region and then seeking new fields is practically over. Already the lumber industry is turning back on its tracks. A quality of timber is eagerly sought in the Lake states which a few years ago was ignored as utterly worthless, and in the south the whole pine region is being gone over in a close search for the old field pine, a tree once despised but now bought up at prices much higher than those formerly paid for magnificent timber of the virgin forest. A publication just issued by the department of agriculture, entitled "National Forests and the Lumber Supply," defines the important part which the national forests are destined to play in the economic development of the country. Abuses have grown up under the laws which provide for the disposition of public land, notably the segregation of large holdings of timber land for speculative purposes. Timber from the national forests is now purchased by the thousand board feet, and payment is made upon the actual scale of the logs when cut. Two dollars and a half per thousand feet is comparatively low as present charges go, but since the cut ranges from 5000 to 20,000 feet per acre, the government receives from five to twenty times as much for the timber as it did under the timber and stone act. CALIFORNIA Resources and Possibilities The above is the heading of title page of the seventeenth report of the California state of trade, lately issued and now distributed. The report is a double one-way, covering both the year and 1906, the completed work former year, with all the technical data, maps, and illustrations then in the hands of the printing been destroyed in the great April, 1906, in San Francisco. This caused the first break series of annual reports of that since its organization in 1887. It is no break, however, in the set of valuable data and statistics year by year to the previous edition, for, notwithstanding the verse conditions resulting from disaster in San Francisco, whence effected the whole state, the California state board of trade has now made good the loss of the port, but has pursued its work lines of state development ousely throughout the year 1906. The report just issued follow predecessors in the very desirability of giving statistics of these industries of the state in parative tables for a series of thus enabling the inquirer to moment the growth or decline particular industry in question. The value of these statistics greatly enhanced by the fact they are systematically gathered original and reliable sources, commonly arranged by experienced and presented in form and w Timber from the national forests is now purchased by the thousand board feet, and payment is made upon the actual scale of the logs when cut. Two dollars and a half per thousand feet is comparatively low as present charges go, but since the cut ranges from 5000 to 20,000 feet per acre, the government receives from five to twenty times as much for the timber as it did under the timber and stone act. Public opinion now demands, not that the government should dispose of its remaining timber lands as rapidly as possible and leave it to private enterprise to exploit the forest hastily, but that what remains of the national forests should be more conservatively used. The government has been forced into the lumber business solely in order that a supply of forest products may be guaranteed to future generations. Probably sixty-five per cent of the total stand of merchantable timber within the forests is located on the Pacific coast, where for a long time the enormous supply of privately owned timber will satisfy most of the demand. This more accessible private timber surrounded the forests as the meat of an apple surrounds the core. It has been entirely eaten away in many places, while in others it is locked up by speculators. The thing to remember, then, is that this immense body of public timber is there as a great reserve against the time when private timber lands will be depleted, and for use as a weapon against monopoly. The first effect of national forests upon prices, particularly where there is still a great deal of available timber, is to raise the price of outside stumpage toward its actual value by withdrawing the excess supply of low-priced timber from the market. But later, as the supply of timber dwindles and values are forced upward by speculative holdings, the effect of the forests will be to check the advance of prices. In the virgin forest, growth is just about balanced by decay. In the western forests, however, natural deterioration is greatly augmented by forest fires. The fires usually do most harm by damaging merchant- The value of these statistics greatly enhanced by the fact they are systematically gathered from original and reliable sources, closely arranged by experienced and presented in form and with planation that makes them easy to telligible to even the slower each additional year gives an ed value to these tables that would readily appreciated by those s reliable information as to resu ready obtained and the possi of future achievement in the s fields of effort in the great state California. Examination of the report gives trinsic evidence that it is no "effort to attract the unwary o too sanguine to the "Land of o rise," but a fair and frank pre tion of facts well verified by tho investigation. Drawn thither b perusal of its pages, the homes or the tourist on arriving in C niia, instead of claiming that he deluded by extravagant states and overdrawn pictures of all-p rising prosperity, will be more rea cry with the Queen of Sheba B Solomon, "The half was not told California is shown to be a la great things, great efforts, and results, all of which on actually cannot fail to make deep impro on the beholder, from whereye may come. The California state board of is the principal body in the state collection and dissemination formation as to its various field industry and trade and opportunity for profitable development of her resources. As shown by the re it maintains close relations with several chambers of comm boards of trade, county organiza and other like bodies throughout state, and is in a position to an fully and accurately any inquiry from prospective homeseekers. T inquiries come in numbers from part of this country as well as abroad. A letter to the board h priced timber from the market. But later, as the supply of timber dwindles and values are forced upward by speculative holdings, the effect of the forests will be to check the advance of prices. In the virgin forest, growth is just about balanced by decay. In the western forests, however, natural deterioration is greatly augmented by forest fires. The fires usually do most harm by damaging merchantable timber, but, great as this injury is, vastly more actual loss in forest wealth results from the yearly burning over of the grass and undergrowth of the forest. Ground fires do not consume the large trees, but they destroy seedlings outright and injure growing trees so that they quickly decay. Finally, the forest floor, composed of a mold of needles, twigs and mosses, is burned away. Far beyond the present influence of the national forests upon the lumber supply will be their importance in the future. The United States is now facing a shortage in the stock of available timber. The yield from the national forests will aid greatly to bridge over the period in which mature timber will be lacking, a period which will last from the time the old trees are gone until the young trees are large enough to take their places. The definite result, therefore, of the sale of timber from the forests will be to sustain the lumber business, to maintain a steady range of timber values and so discourage speculation, and, far more important still, steadily to further the uninterrupted development of the great industries dependent upon wood. As shown by the report it maintains close relations with several chambers of commerce boards of trade, county organizations and other like bodies throughout state, and is in a position to fully and accurately any inquiry from prospective homeseekers. The inquiries come in numbers from part of this country as well as abroad. A letter to the board prompt answer, with printed matter giving general information as to state at large and such details as section or county as will best suit the inquirer's desires and enable to make an intelligent choice as to location and line of occupation. Reading this last report one form some idea of the world growth and development of California since she first entered the sister states, less than sixty years ago. The vast ranchos of the Mexican farmers and the like large holding many of the earlier American co-are year by year being divided up to smaller tracts, and intensive farming and fruit growing on moderate scale is becoming more and more popular each year. From the report we gather that fruit growing is still the leading dustry of the soil, and the produce various kinds as given in these turns may well cause an eastern mer to open his eyes and take note of what his Golden State brother doing. He uses tons and carload units of measure, instead of pounds and bushels. In shipping and seeding the produce of his season's work besides what was consumed CALIFORNIA Services and Possibilities It is the heading of the seventeenth annual report of the California state board, newly issued and now being sent is a double one in a filing both the years 1905 and 1906. The completed work for the year, with all the text, stamps, maps, and illustrations, hands of the printer, hastily ordered in the great fire of San Francisco. Led the first break in the annual reports of the board organization in 1887. There is however, in the sequence of data and statistics added to the previous accumulated withstanding the additions resulting from the San Francisco, which at whole state, the California of trade has not only the loss of the 1905 re-prints pursued its work in all state development continue without the year 1906. It just issued follows its own in the very desirable fealing statistics of the varieties of the state in comics for a series of years, giving the inquirer to see in a growth or decline of the industry in question. Of these statistics is enclosed by the fact that essentially gathered from reliable sources, carefully by experienced hands, used in form and with himself and sold at home, the California husbandman in 1890 shipped abroad fruit to the amount of 16,195 carloads of 10 tons each. In 1906 he shipped 87,511 carloads of the same capacity, nearly five and a half times as much. Quite an increase in sixteen years! Of oranges, lemons and other citrus fruits the shipments abroad for the years 1905 and 1906 reached the enormous aggregate of 835,984 tons, or over 83,000 carloads. Some good business in this for the transportation companies! The center of the raisin industry is in Fresno county, from which vicinity more than 75,000 tons of raisins were shipped in the two years, 1905 and 1906. The growing importance of this industry is recognized in all raisin-producing countries, for the California raisins have not only shut out to a large degree the foreign product from the United States, but have begun to invade the foreign markets. California is not going to let us lack for that wholesome dried fruit, the prune. According to the statistics given in the state board of trade report, the average annual output for the past eleven years has been about 56,000 tons, which with the present annual consumption of 50,000 tons in the United States, leaves a surplus for profitable export to England, France, Germany and other countries. The average annual export of prunes since 1906 reached 42,000,000 pounds. Of nuts, almonds, and walnuts they raise plenty for themselves and are able to spare several hundred carloads each year for others. The tables given in the report show an average production of wines and brandy for the twelve years ending June 30, 1906, of 27,030,616 gallons. 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The annual year gives an increas­these tables that will be associated by those seeking information as to results al­led and the possibilities achievement in the several part in the great state of France, Germany and other countries. The average annual export of prunes since 1904 reached 42,000,000 pounds. Of nuts, almonds, and walnuts they raise plenty for themselves and are able to spare several hundred carloads each year for others. The tables given in the report show an average production of wines and brandy for the twelve years ending June 30, 1906, of 27,030,616 gallons. The returns of sweet and dry wines and brandy are given in detail and should be of much interest to the wine and liquor trade. California stands well to the front as a dairy state. The figures show a production of butter for 1904 of over 34,000,000 pounds, with an increase in the next two years of some 23 per cent. The cheese product is also a large and important one. The number and the value of farm animals is on the increase, there being 390,175 more head in 1905 than in 1904, and an addition of over $8,000,000 to the values given for the latter year. The wool clip for the two years reached the highest mark for five years, being 24,000,000 pounds. In the production of beet sugar for 1906 California, with an output of 94,285 tons, is in close competition with Colorado, for some years the leading state. The returns from the wheat crop, though less in 1905 than in the preceding year, were still large, and an increased home consumption and a better market in the Orient, have added to the value of the crop produced. The production of barley shows a marked increase. The hop crop for 1905 amounted to over 13,000,000 pounds, larger by 1,500,000 pounds than any single crop for the eight preceding years. For 1906, however, it reached nearly 20,-000,000 pounds. California does not carry all her eggs in one basket, for besides the various industries of the ranch and farm already mentioned, her poultry man comes to the front in 1906. From one district alone, that of Sonoma county, of which Petaluma is the main shipping point, 4,334,321 dozen eggs, with 39,938 dozen poultry were all descriptions, was 544,013 a decrease, as shown by tha­from the output of several y­ceeding. In mineral production, gold copper, petroleum, and various minerals, the latest statistic able show a total increase year in values of over $6,000 production of cement is also increased in 1905 over that o­ The report contains much al­matter, including fin­ancials of the state, road improv­steam and electric railroad irrigation projects already un­and statistical tables show climatelogical conditions exist various portions of the state. There is also an appendix report, giving a number of ar­recognized authorities on su­jects as "The Future of the Coast," by Hon. George C. 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