U.S.A. TIMBER SUPPLIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 10

U.S.A. TIMBER SUPPLIES

‘PERMANENT INDUSTRY FOUNDED

In view of periodically repeated statements that this and the next country’s timber supplies are doomed to exhaustion within ii certain limited number of years, some interest may he attached to a letter which the secretary oi the New Zealand Sawmillers’ Federation, Mr. A. Seed, has received from a prominent New Zealand sa windier, Mr. L. M. Lane, of Totara North, who is at present visiting America.

Mr. Lane writes that the opinion has been generally held that a day would come when America, would require the whole of' New Zealand’s available soft woods, on account of the depredations of their own forests. Instead of that, it is a fact that the lumber men of the States have been operating and planning their business* and their installations on the basis of having their industry, not for 20 or jmssibly 40 years, but for all time. The it- calculations are based on tlie maintenance of permanent forest supplies, and, while critics have denounced the timber millers for the past 20 years us ruthless vandals, the latter in reality have minded their own business, by milling their ripe crops and conserving their young forests. The result is that to-day there is a greater stand of merchantable timber in the territory west of the Rockies than ever there was in all the great original forests of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and of the Lake States, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The. authority for this statement, says the writer, is the report of the United Stales Forest Service, 1 known as the “Capper” report.