Forest Protection and the Tariff on Lumber: Spirit of the PressNew York : [s.n.], 1883 - 35 páginas |
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$2 per thousand admit American amount annually article of prime basswood benefit Canada Canadian lumber free census cent cheap Chicago Committee competition Congress destroyed dian lumber domestic lumber duty on Canadian duty on lumber entering the United exhausted farmers fences foreign lumber forest protection forestry forests means free list free of duty gentlemen Government hemlock hewn interest January January 13 laborers lower peninsula lumber entering lumber industry lumbermen manufacturers of lumber markets Michigan millions petition pine and spruce pine forests pine lands pine lumber present rate price of lumber prime necessity production Professor Sargent protectionists protective duty quantities rapid destruction rate of cutting raw material removed repeal rich sawed boards sawed lumber Senate spruce lumber sumers supply of lumber supply of white sycamore Tariff Commission tariff duty TARIFF ON LUMBER tariff reform tection thousand feet timber and lumber Van Schaick white pine whole number wood York
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Página 1 - The attention of Congress is invited to the necessity of additional legislation to secure the preservation of the valuable forests still remaining on the public domain, especially in the extreme Western States and Territories, where the necessity for their preservation is greater than in less mountainous regions, and where the prevailing dryness of the climate renders their restoration, if they are once destroyed, well nigh imponible.
Página 3 - States to ascertain the quantity of mature white pine then existent in that country and ready for the axe. Professor Sargent, who had charge of this part of the census, reported in 1882 in these words : — " The entire supply (of white pine) growing in the United States and ready for the axe does not to-day greatly, if at all, exceed 80,000,000,000 feet ; and this estimate includes the small and inferior trees which, a few years ago, would not have been considered worth counting. The annual production...
Página 1 - ... immense resources of the region would invite permanent settlements and open new fields for industry and enterprise. The report of the Commissioner of Agriculture presents an account of the labors of that department during the past year, and includes information of much interest to the general public. The condition of the forests of the country and the wasteful manner in which their destruction is taking place give cause for serious apprehension. Their action in protecting the earth's surface,...
Página 2 - Fatal inroads have already been made into the great pine forests of the North Atlantic region. Its wealth has been lavished with an unsparing hand ; it has been wantonly and stupidly cut, as if its resources were endless; what has not been sacrificed to the axe has been allowed to perish by fire. The pine of New England and New York has already disappeared. Pennsylvania is nearly stripped of her pine, which only a few years ago appeared inexhaustible.
Página 29 - Treasury was in constant touch with the Committee on Ways and Means of the House and the Finance Committee of the Senate, advising them periodically of the needs of the Government.
Página 1 - Their action in protecting the earth's surface, in modifying the extremes of climate, and in regulating and sustaining the flow of springs and streams is now well understood, and their importance in relation to the growth and prosperity of the country cannot be safely disregarded. They are fast disappearing before destructive fires and the legitimate requirements of our increasing population, and their total extinction cannot be long delayed unless better methods than now prevail shall be adopted...
Página 16 - Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves, twenty per centum ad valorem.
Página 3 - ... and it does not require any particular powers of foresight to be able to predict that the price must advance to still higher figures. Enough is now known to permit the positive statement that no great unexplored body of this pine remains, and that, with the exception of the narrow redwood belt of the California coast, no North American forest can yield in quantity any substitute for it.
Página 3 - ... estimate. The annual production of white pine lumber is not now far from ten billion feet, and the demand is constantly and rapidly increasing. The publication of these facts a few months ago has greatly increased, and in some cases more than doubled, the value of pine lands in parts of the country ; and it does not require any particular powers of foresight to be able to predict that the price of white pine must advance to still higher figures.. Enough is now known of our forests to permit the...
Página 2 - ... has been allowed to perish by fire. The pine of New England and New York has already disappeared. Pennsylvania is nearly stripped of her pine, which only a few years ago appeared inexhaustible. The great northwestern pine States— Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota—can show only a few scattered remnants of the noble forests to which they owe their greatest prosperity, and which not even selfinterest has saved from needless destruction.