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Página 817
... feet annually , and says that one leading authority has esti- mated the total consumption of wood in the United States at 150,000 , - 000,000 board feet , and this takes no account of the destruction of timber by fire and natural causes ...
... feet annually , and says that one leading authority has esti- mated the total consumption of wood in the United States at 150,000 , - 000,000 board feet , and this takes no account of the destruction of timber by fire and natural causes ...
Página 818
... feet , and that since lumbering began there , some seventy years ago , the total cut has probably not been less than 250,000,000,000 feet . Continuing he says : It is well known that the days of white pine are rapidly passing , and even ...
... feet , and that since lumbering began there , some seventy years ago , the total cut has probably not been less than 250,000,000,000 feet . Continuing he says : It is well known that the days of white pine are rapidly passing , and even ...
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... feet of lumber within a year , and it is predicted by lum- bermen that the last sawmill will be abandoned in Minneapolis within five years . A friend calls attention to the fact that he recently took a journey of 200 miles north from ...
... feet of lumber within a year , and it is predicted by lum- bermen that the last sawmill will be abandoned in Minneapolis within five years . A friend calls attention to the fact that he recently took a journey of 200 miles north from ...
Página 820
... feet , and in 1907 40,000,000,000 feet . I devote a good deal of time to showing the effect of the destruc- tion of the forests on agriculture and a great many industries also , and its effect upon the climate , but those are conceded ...
... feet , and in 1907 40,000,000,000 feet . I devote a good deal of time to showing the effect of the destruc- tion of the forests on agriculture and a great many industries also , and its effect upon the climate , but those are conceded ...
Página 821
... feet deep over the field . Holes were cut and lakes left behind . Out of 250,000 acres of wonderfully fertile soil , 10,000 were completely de- stroyed , 10,000 more lost 50 per cent of their value , and the uncertainty left behind ...
... feet deep over the field . Holes were cut and lakes left behind . Out of 250,000 acres of wonderfully fertile soil , 10,000 were completely de- stroyed , 10,000 more lost 50 per cent of their value , and the uncertainty left behind ...
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Página 1062 - Books of all kinds, including blank books and pamphlets, and engravings bound or unbound, photographs, etchings, maps, charts, music in books or sheets, and printed matter, all the foregoing not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
Página 1043 - Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I appear on behalf of the Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company, of Boston, Mass., a large concern.
Página 1257 - In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries.
Página 1076 - ... if any non-enumerated article equally resembles two or more enumerated articles, on which different rates of duty are chargeable, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on such non-enumerated article, the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest duty...
Página 1087 - ... embossed, or printed otherwise than lithographically, or wholly or partly covered with metal or its solutions, or with gelatin or flock, 17 per centum ad valorem: Provided.
Página 1032 - Books of paper or other material for children's use, containing illuminated lithographic prints, not exceeding in weight twenty-four ounces each, and all booklets and fashion magazines or periodicals printed in whole or in part by lithographic process or decorated by hand, eight cents per pound.
Página 1732 - ... applicable to their contents), shall pay duty as follows: If holding more than one pint, one cent per pound; if holding not more than one pint, and not less than one-fourth of a pint, one and one-half cents per pound ; if holding less than one-fourth of a pint, fifty cents per gross : Provided, That none of the above articles shall pay a less rate of duty than 40 per centum ad valorem, that same shall not be filled as a subterfuge.
Página 1063 - Governments. 502. Books and pamphlets printed exclusively in languages other than English; also books and music, in raised print, used exclusively by the blind. 503. Books, maps, music, photographs, etchings, lithographic prints, and charts, specially imported, not more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith, for the use or by order of any society or institution incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for the encouragement...
Página 1076 - Act, which is similar, either in material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated in this Act as chargeable with duty, shall pay the same rate of duty which is levied on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned...
Página 824 - ... steam railways. The cultivation of the soil, with or without irrigation, will be hampered by the increased cost of agricultural tools, fencing, and the wood needed for other purposes about a farm. Irrigated agriculture will suffer most of all, for the destruction of the forests means the loss of the waters as surely as night follows day. With the rise in the cost of producing food, the cost of food itself will rise. Commerce in general will necessarily be affected by the difficulties of the primary...