Excerpt from Timber Depletion, Lumber Prices, Lumber, Exports, and Concentration of Timber Ownership: Report on Senate Resolution 311 (Second Edition), June 1, 1920 The lumber cut in 1907 was about 7 per cent of the total for the country; in 1918 it had dropped to million feet, or about 45 per cent, and in actual amount it was less than half as much as in 1907. Particularly marked is the decline in softwoods. While in 1907 the cut of softwood in New England formed per cent of all the softwoods cut in the country, in 1918 it had dropped to per cent. 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 techlogy 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.