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Title: Areas of desolation in Pennsylvania (microform)
Identifier: areasofdesolatio01roth (find matches)
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Rothrock, Joseph T. , 1839-1922
Subjects: Forests and forestry; Reforestation; Waste lands
Publisher: Philadelphia : Herbert Welsh
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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creases, means loss of power in coinparisou with other States whose natural resources arc better managed. It is an astounding statement that I mak(\ wh(Mi T say, as 1 do now, that in my hfetime 1 havc^ seen prac- tically one-seventh of this (VommonweaUh cease to produce wc^alth, ))ower, or food for the remainder of the State! In tlris estimate I have not inchidcnl tliose portions of llic coal fic^hls on which iK^thc^r farms nor forests are found, hut which ah'cady ))r(\s(Mit so dc^sohiti^ an appearance as to suggest thc^ incjuiry: What is to happen tlici'f^ wlicn the mining ci^ases? My distinct recolNv'tir^n extenr)< )i^\ck at least sixty years. The railroads were just opening t h(^ way to th(^ markets and, as a conscujuc^nce, lumlxM'ing Ix^gan on a scale previously unknown. What the rafts had carried out r.f the woods was as ^^a drop in the bucket in comparison with what the railroads were to take out to the centers of demand. From the mouth of the Sinnemahoning, nortliwest to the .Vllegheny lliver at ^\^'lrr(Ml, 7o miles as the crow flies, was an almost unbroken forest. There was no house whei"(^ tlu^ town of Kane now stands. Kidgwax' and .lohnsonhurg were just lifting tlieir heads out of the woods. I walked from Ch^arfield to Saint Mary's and iIkmicc to Smc^thport -(')() mih^s; most of th(^ way through glorious whitc^ ))ine and luMiilock forests, of which hardly a vestige now remains. Those forests are but a memory! Do not misundei-stand m(\ I hax'c no contention with the lumbermen of ihose days. The limber was there. It was mature. It was thought to b(^ uccmIimI as fast as it was cut. At least there was a market for
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  • booksubject:Forests_and_forestry
  • booksubject:Reforestation
  • booksubject:Waste_lands
  • bookpublisher:Philadelphia_Herbert_Welsh
  • bookcontributor:Penn_State_University
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