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Title: Areas of desolation in Pennsylvania (microform): Such Hemlock once covered hundreds of square miles which are now desolated and producing nothing of value
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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itâand such timber! Soft white pine, the cutting of which was a hixury; no knot to (lull the knife or axe! Who could blame the purchaser for refusinii!^' all but the best, wlien it could be liad at a reasonable^ rate? No one wanted infcM'ior graders! The lunibernian could hardly be expected to handle^ them at a loss to hinis(^lf. There was so much white pin(^ that there was no market for iiemlock; wIkmi it (tlu^ luMulock) was cut, tlu^ bark was stripped and sold to thc^ tannc^r, but tlu^ logs were left to bleach and rot where tlic^ trec^ h^ll. No end of timber; no end of prosperity. Those were gn^at timers! But an end did come. Those hillsidesâblack with forest wealth, the State sold, timbc^r and all. for 20^^ â > cents an acreâare for tlu^ most part barc^ now. Fire has swept over them a- d desti-oycMJ tlu^ nc^w growth, such as it was, and the snows of wintcM* and the rains of summer have washed the soil away, until many farms that were started where the forests stood have been abandoned because of the ini;)()V(^rished soil. The men who cut the trees and the ukmi who sawed the logs info lumlxM* have left. The countrv is the poorer because they have gone; for ihey weie iiidustri- ous, strong-armed, brave-hearted men. But how about the land'.' Too pooi- to farm for the most part, oftcMi without inin(^ral resourc(\s, it was simply abandoned, practically uncanMl foi*. To-day one may safely say t hei'c are :),U()(),()()() acres of such un))i'()l(M*t(Ml land in th(^ State of P(Mmsylvania. Sun^ly the^-e nuist \)v Fault somewhere; who is to blame? No one in ))articular! As a people we were dazed over what we thought the inexhaustibh^ stock of timber. The tremendous increase of pof)ulation, the enormous demand to )>(> made upon the forests, Such Hkmlock Once Covered Hixdheds of SgrAiiE Mu.ks wH.râ are X.,u Desulxtk,. xm, Producing NoTHixG OF Vaue INTE «*fc.^,' It*.'."' Km: AL SECO SiM. mm ^»â¢) r* ilk * â / -' «⢠->' f,.im Tr " t,,^-. >,; t^M . -4... j,.-v.'ct 'a «&' f-.tSAW . ,.U..L','. i.... â¢'.- »

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