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

188 Modern Business Geography erie tiem -_ . 1 — UNITED STATES » NATIONAL FORESTS DISTRICT BOUNDARIES PORTO RICO PART OF wl . ' DIST. 7 = ob SCALE OF MILES _ Ev Ee ey ‘00. The National Forests are cared for and managed by the Forest Service, which now controle about one fourth of the western forest lands Several kinds of wood from the Pacific forests almost rival the white pine in strength, durability, and smoothness, and excel it in beauty of color. Sailing vessels take great quantities of this lumber from Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, and San Francisco to the lands bor- dering the Pacific Ocean; they take it also through the Panama Canal to the eastern states, and even to Europe. It is not surprising that Oregon and Washington are the leading states in lumber pro- duction, and that the Douglas fir stands next to the yellow pine in importance as a source of lumber. The Pacific forest extends north- ward along the western border of Canada even into Alaska. The Alaskan forests. The forests of Alaska are sure to play an important part in mining, railroad construction, and home building, when such activities are developed on a large scale in that region. The southeastern part contains excellent forests of spruce, hemlock, and cedar. In the colder climate farther to the northwest and north, the forests dwindle both in extent and in the size of trees. Yet even in the interior of Alaska, the trees are large enough to be suitable for the pulp used in paper making. Our National Forests. Figure 109 shows the extent of forest lands that have been set apart by the government as National Forests. They are for the good of all the people. Sixty-five per cent of the money derived from the sale of trees, from rent for pasturage of an- imals. and from the rent of land for summer homes, goes into the

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