The Lake States are now producing only one-ninth as much white pine as they were thirty years ago.

These states now cut only 3,500,000,000 feet of all kinds of lumber annually.

Their output is growing smaller each year.

Wisconsin led the United States in lumber production in 1900.

Now she cuts less than the second-growth yield of Maine.
Michigan, which led in lumber production before Wisconsin, now harvests a crop of white pine that is 50 per cent.