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Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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of spool and bobbin stock. Dividing the amount ofwages paid during the year by the average number of hands em-ployed, and we have only $215 a year for each; but only a por-tion of those actually engaged in lumbering worked at this oc-cupation continuously through the year. Still the mere workof felling the trees and hauling or floating the logs must ranklow among our remunerative occupations. The mere lumber, as such, constitutes only a small part ofthe real importance of our forests. Wood is indispensable forthe manufacture of innumerable articles, each of which con-stitutes a great industry of itself. Take a single example of aconsiderable product of the forest which was practically un-known five years ago. Rags and similar fibrous materials, fromwhich paper was formerly almost exclusively made, are whollyinsufficient to supply the present demand for paper. Wood-pulp—that is, wood rasped or ground to an impalpable sub-stance—enters very largely into the composition of wrapping-
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SNAKING OUT LOGS.See Note 16. LUMBER AND OTHER FOREST PRODUCTS. 257 paper, card-board, paste-board, and of most printing-papers, andof not a few writing-papers. The newspaper which you readis, in effect, printed upon a sheet made in great part, sometimesalmost wholly, of spruce, pine, birch, or poplar chips. The barkand rotten wood being cleared off, the sound wood is reduced topulp in one of two ways: Either mechanically, by being ground TABLE XXII.—LUMBERING AND ITS PRODUCTS. States. Establish-ments. Capital. Hands. Wages. Logs. All Products. 3 umber. Dollars. Number. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. 354 1,545,655 1,647 424,156 1,517,986 2,649,634 13 102,450 79 33,375 126,486 215,918 319 1,067,840 1,744 237,394 1,009,954 1,793,848 251 6,454,718 3,434 1,095,736 2,055,635 4,428,950 96 481,200 877 112,931 654,500 1,051,295 Connecticut 300 657,300 707 178,336 609,024 1,076,455 Dakota 39 113,750 290 54,974 269,235 435,792 86 259,250 391 40,694 229,763 411,060 Dist. of Columbia.. 1 25,000 25

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