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Excerpt from The Forest Wealth of Oregon The State of Oregon has approximately three hundred billion feet, B. M., of standing timber according to the average of the estimates made by different timber men and experts who have made the matter a thorough study. This is a much greater amount than is possessed by any State in the Union, and is nearly one-sixth of the total amount of standing merchantable timber of the United States. The value of this immense body of timber is twofold: Firs t, as a source of lumber sup ply; second, as a factor in the maintenance of a'perpetual flow of water in the streams and rivers of the State, by retarding the melting of the snow and holding a con tinuous supply of moisture in the ground during the summer months. Other minor uses of forests are as a fuel supply, and as a source of ornamental trees and shrubs, and in the production of medicinal and edible products useful to mankind. Commercially, the value of the standing timber of Oregon when manufactured into lumber and sold at the rate of $12 per M. Would be 000, a sum in excess of the total amount of money in currency in the United States at the present day. The most densely timbered area in the State is West of the Cascade Range. This is due to more humid conditions, favorable to rapid and abundant development of plant life. Thus we find that eighty per cent of the total stand of timber is found on an area which is thirty per cent of the total area of the State. The average stand of timber on the forested area west of the Cascade Ran ge is feet, B. M., per acre. Localities where the stand is feet per acre are common, as in portions of Clatsop, Tillamook, Polk, and other coast counties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.