Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

Lumbering and Forest Products 135 NITED STATES "TREGIONS NESTERN FORES'I 5 «3 PACIFIC COAST FORES E7773 ROCKY MOUNTAIN FORES N FORE®"™ "HERN FOREL NTRAL HARDWOO. OUTHERN FOREST "enDIrAl FOREST Fig. 107. Only about two fifths of the standing timber of the United States is now found in the eastern section ; and only one twenty-fifth of this supply is in the forests northeast of the Ohio. The Rocky Mountain states have about a tenth of the total supply, and the Pacific forests have half of it. Washington, Oregon, and California, therefore. have the reserves of lumber for the whole country. The forest regions of the United States. Figure 107 shows the five forest regions of the United States. aside from Alaska. They are as follows : (1) The northeastern forest stretches from Maine westward to northern Minnesota, and southwestward along the Appalachian Mountains to northern Alabama. In Canada it broadens to include nearly a fourth of that country. In the United States the most common tree in this northeastern forest was originally the white pine. But because this pine is so light, strong, durable, and easily worked, it is wanted for nearly everything, from houses to matches; no other wood is so generally useful. Hence the white pine has become very scarce, and its price is soaring higher and higher. Other trees in this forest are the spruce and the hemlock, whose lumber, although much poorer, is taking the place of the white pine. These trees thrive in the cold climate of the northern United States and the Appalachian heights. Many broad-leaved trees, such as maples, beeches, birches, and oaks, are scattered throughout the region. The northeastern forest now supplies less than one tenth of our wood. (2) The central forest in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and south- ward is sometimes called the hardwood forest. because the chief trees

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