Lumber shortages circa 1920... for those who spew nonsense under the guise of being "knowledgeable".

["Stanley Barthfarkle" <sbarth@xxxxxxxxx>]

<Excerpt from the report by the Forest Service, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, June 1, 1920, entitled "Timber Depletion, Lumber Prices,
Lum­ber Exports, and Concentration of Timber Ownership.">-
http://www.workerseducation.org/crutch/pamphlets/lumber/ch006.html



There were 27,000 recorded forest fires in 1919, burning a total of 8¼
million acres. During the preceding year, 25,000 fires burned over 10½
million acres of forest land. An addi­tional large acreage was burned each
year, of which no record could be obtained.

According to estimates published in American Forestry, Sept. 1920: "The bulk
of the original supplies of yellow pine in the South will be gone in ten
years, and within seven years 3,000 manufacturing plants will go out of
business."

The following is from an article by Franklin H. Smith, Statis­tician in
Forest Products:

    Going back to the middle of the last century, we can dis­tinctly trace
the history of the lumber of the country at ten year intervals by showing
the relative importance of the several pro­ducing regions.