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Show DICIIaAE OF TIM2E?.. The following extract iroai an article ar-ticle in the San Francisco Jlullctin ol a late date, fhn.ishe abundant food for reflection in the minds of the thoughtful who feel an interest in the future welfare of the United States: Few problems ntYoetir.c. tho futuro growth mid prosperity of our Stale are inure di;lk nit of so.ution than that of supplying, sup-plying, in tho near future lhe increasing Jtuiand lor wood in iu variou forms tor u-o. (.'kit tiiuboreil lands, liniiltfl in quan-lity, quan-lity, will ?oua bo exhausted. Mora thnn one-ihi d ot our valuable lumber is al-i-etiJy coiisiiniL'd. Le-i ihan ono-tenlb of tho surf.ico of the t? tale is covered with wituabie f Ttiati. Wood for fuel is even moro fCarce, and will all probably bo consumed within tk-i nexL six or eight years. Uitrotdy cabinet wood, the laurel, is not suilic'ent in (piantily fur extensive manufucture. These tacts aro startling, but we havo generally fuund alleviation or then in thu iLought that thera were inexhauitii'lo fo esls along Ihii banks ot '.he Columb.a and tho Mi;rcJ of Pcget ioun '. lj which we could resort when'otir own fuled us. Indeed, our market ia aever destitute- of a sujiply from these aoUIC s. tii;:, coincident witi our own demand for the lumbi-r I' iDtie countries, there ;nj sp-ung up n demand f urn both the Pteitie aiul A'l intic omnuiciul uLions, iii.h fo-.v obtain from liieni all, cr nearly all, their supplies for ship-building mid i. ther heavy works. It is the opinion ot iuloliient hmib 'r dealers that i.n.ier the 7re.:'-nt system of dpleiion th'' ! vtiaable iLimbr of the r.orlhwest coa?! i will a':i be cj:i turned within the next iv,-.-n:y year?. Oik home reiourc s w ill then bo er.tirtly de;troyid. V hut arc we to do V The l 'i-cit-j of tho interior Territories Terri-tories wi'l sc'iri-ljj "nttord lumber of an infer: ir .-y.'.aty to ttipvly homo want-, in l thr; Atlantic Stales cannot, in, ad-ditioa ad-ditioa u ihiir inceAsing ueci?, siTord a 1 reined.- lor our dej'diatioa. i We would, .be giad to hope that i the writer of the above is mistaken in some of h'i tti; i:at-t-jr, for insUnce, cm it ij ipssib'd Li. at, at L'aH early d.vy in tA iitrxi-y of California, one-third one-third of tho valuable lumbor is already al-ready eousuin'd.' If s?, well may- tl;c tditor i:rau'e, What are wc to d.o? Tho people in the United S tales ; seem to have treated the Limber ques- i tioa in a very thoughtless manner; trom the earliest times, not appear- i ing to Like toomjht for the morrow. ! NN'aste has been a;;d still is the order i:i ail our forests. It is too late now, however, to bring back the alre.ldv : wasted ai:d constimeJ woods of curl hitherto der.se forest;: the only course to pursue is to tke good care of wcat ie.ii.sin; and preserve it from j waste and to take such steps as we can to inaucura:.' a system ot limber- j growing ir tl-.e b;;.:i! Of 1 :--.,. who come a:;er the present genir.i-" tion. rjrtunatcly for l'uh she is n.t i' hkeiy soon to become as helpk?s as ! California in rL"ial to UilI, i'.vause ! i she is supplied with what believe ' 'to be i:;e.-,hautiMe beds of c-al.!1 which article liie ilen St W-1 ahnost entirely Witcout. iltit in ihciS fuppiy of tr.e.- iuita'Me fur good lum- i ber Utah is far bh'u.d her Western1 neighbor. What we in this Tcrritorv oug:.i to do is, lirsl to s.ive what we irca.ly posses, x:d sreoud, to plant trees for future to. e c;ui hardly expect to do much in the way of raising rais-ing trees for the production ot lumber. 1 al -cast cot for m .::y years to came. 1 we can grmv timber for f-l and .;... .i .;. , U..U in.ti-.- iLe io.v.-:; :. : ' . .; our v.i:.t:.v;; ai'i, co.lcavvojj. VUjlJ' -.vjlii-jL. an.i. in .iau aivif-y. O.' c H:rs'.- :! h i, ' bc-ou UraiCDtcnl lfct lhe liirerent kindii kvast Sivw i sre.it l--rt.::ouj |