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THE SOUTHERN F0RBST8.The Baltimore Exchange says: “ Those persons who have been accustomed to regard the pine forests of the South as of comparatively small commercial importance will be surprised to learn that the annual value or the hewn timber, of the sawed plank, boards, scantling, rosin, pitch and turpentine is estimated to be nut less, in the aggregate, than from twelve to fifteen millions of dollars; while it is impossible to compute the yearly loss by wcstc in girdling trees that are the growth of centuries for the purpose of opening ^ up new plantations or extending the area of those already worked. The wanton de-dmotion of this valuable timber, which has been going on for some years past, has elicited a strong protest lVora a writer in the Savannah Republican, who calls attention to the fact that the exports of yellow pine are annually diminishing, and expresses the opinion that unless more care is taken in future ^ to preserve the growing timber and protect the ' owners of it against the encroachments of * piratical’ squatters, the pine forests of the South will bo rapidly swept awav.”ic1THE COST OF SUPPORTING A CHURCH*J1IThe Century says that (lie average expense per anum to the members of different denominations throughout the United States f«rthe support of their different church service, is estimated to be about as follows: A Babtist and Methodist, $3 40: a Presbyterian, $9; a Congregation-alist, $10; a Roman Catholic, $15; a Reformed Dutch $22; and a Unitarian, $23.0£r An engineer, a Thomas Brown, on the P. Ft. W. C. R R., was lately killed at Massillon,0., by his engine having boon thrown from a1 bridge into a creek.
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Dawsons Fort Wayne Weekly Times
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Sat, Sep 03, 1859
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