Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 499, 17 January 1902 — THE TIMBER USED. [ARTICLE]

THE TIMBER USED.

From the Yale Review. la :b“ Un:ted States feet of pine lumber are us-d every year for matches, or the equivalent of the product cf 400 acres of good virgin forest. About CW.000.000 cross ties are now laid on American railroads, and 90.009.900 new lies are required annually for renewals. The amount of timber used every year for ties alone :a equivalent to J.dW.'W.flW feet of lumber. are now standing nearly 7.500.600 telegraph poles. The average life of a telegraph pole is about ten years, so that nearly 750.000 n-w poles are required every year for renewals. These figures do not include telephone poles and the poles required on new railway lines. The total annual consumption of tim ber for ties and poles is equivalent to the amount of timber grown on 100.000 acres of good virgin forest. For making shoe pegs the amount of wood used in a single year is equal to the product of fully 3.5'*0 acres of good second-growth hardwood land Lasts and boot trees require at least 5'*0.000 cords more. Most newspaper and packing paper is made from wood. Although this industry has been developed only within the last forty years, yet the amount of wood consumed for paper during that time has been enormous. The total annual consumption of wood for paper pulp is equiv alent to over 800.000.000 board feet of timber, for which it would be necessary, were the trees all growing together, to cnt some 80.0000 acres of prime woods.