Michigan Lumber

Hradst reets' commercial ageney publislics a valualile review of Michigan! lumbering interests. The stat si ics in the article are absolulely correct, inl have been collected and reviaedby Bradstreets with "'it care. Pricestórpine laiuls a]){)itciateil during the ):ist ". yrar $10 to 60 per acre, fciOcoTdtng tö focation and the quality oL tiinber. Good porous limber ranges in valué f rom $50 U $100 per acre. These lands are being secured by capitalista, heavy flrms and Byndicates, and it is thought that the tinte is nol lar distant wlien the limilii ring interests of Michigan will l)e in control of acomparativelyfew individuáis and Qrms. The exact aulount dl' Imnber manufacturad in Leading Michigan districts during 1880 is :,- :i'.)s, 187,227 f eet, This is 051,510,514 Peet more than the production was in 1870. The amount of ltimber on hand at the close of the year 1880 was tssti,017,679 feet. The article says: "Oí pine, which forins the bulk ol llie luiiiber production in tliis territory, the gros increase in the deniand of 1880 over that of the year previous was fully 15 per cent. Confmed to main sujiply ])oi]it.s the Increase, it is éetlmated, was Inini 20 to 2" percent. Michigan, Wisconsiii and Minnesota snpplied more than one-thiid of the di-uiaml, or about 6,000,000,000 feet. Michigan alone, according to the reporto r'eceived f rom aliout 500 milis, produced nearly twotlii nis of that amount. Theeeestí matea do not includethemany millions of Eeei anmuilly cut into sliingles, staves, lxilts, the square ÜiiilxT sliipcil ÍXOW the stilte, logs and timber towcd down the lakes to supply the milis of the Ohio and New York ports, orthe large shan of wood usetl to make tubs, pails, kets, etc. Detaila of the hiinber business of Miobigao show that as to pnxluction, aiul in most uil respects the preseni year was tl ie most prosperous for ill concerned. At times many feared lliat the immense production of 1879 would have a disastrous effect apon the ttade, but réstate proved Ihcir appriOiensinns groundless. Honce himbcniicii did in t hesitate to tncreaae the out put of logs that winter, and their productíon of lumber duriag the )a.st setison. Had not eiirly cold weafher shortenetl the season froin two to three weeks, the )ini(luctioii fbr 1880 would probably have been 200,000,000 feet larger thaii it was.