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Title: Areas of desolation in Pennsylvania (microform)
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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creases, means loss of power in eornparison with other States whose natural resources are better managed. It is an astounding statenu^nt that I make, when I say, as I do now, that in my lifetime I liave seen prac- tically one-seventh of this Commonw^ealth cease to produce wealth, power, or food for the remainder of the State! In this estimate I have not included those portions of the coal fields on which neither farms nor forests are found, but w^hich already present so desolate an appearance as to suggest the inquiry: What is to lia))pen there when the mining ceases? 1VTv Histinrt rofolloction oxtoruls bnck nt lenst sixtv years. The railroads were just opening the way to the markets and, as a consequence, lumbering began on a scale previously unknowm. What the rafts had carri(Hl out of thc^ woods was as ^'a drop in the bucket'^ in comparison with what the railroads were to take out to the centers of demand. From the mouth of the Sinnemahoning, northwest to the Allegheny River at Warren, 75 mih^s as the crow flies, was an almost unbrokcni forest. Tliere was no house where the town of Kane now stands. Ridgway and Johnsonl)urg were just lifting their heads out of the woods. I walked from Clearfield to Saint Mary's and thence to Smethport—60 miles; most of the way through glorious white pine and hemlock forests, of which hardly a vestige now remains. Those forests are but a memory! Do not misunderstand me. I have no contention with th(^ lumbernuMi of those days. The* timb(M" was th(M'e. It was mature. It was thoiujJii to be needed as fast as it was cut. At least there was a market for
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