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Show RUSSIA'S RICH TIMBER LANDS Syttematlo Exportation Would Have a Qreat Effect on the Markets of the World. An article I, n current magazine by A. J. Sack presents statistics on Russia's Rus-sia's forest resources as a means of paying tho billions of dollars due to homo nnd foreign creditors. The astonishing statement Is made by this writer thut Russia, Including Siberia, has 1,125,000,000 acres of timber tim-ber which Is 03 per cent as much as tho whole world possessed. Tills resource re-source Is being set aside by Russian economists as a fund to pay the country's coun-try's debts, Tho effect on America's business should bo duly considered, observes Hardwood Record In discussing the article. ar-ticle. Except oak, it continues, which Is generally known In tho inurket as the Japanese oak, It la not probable that much Russian timber will reach tho United States; but It will compete with' American lumber In other markets, mar-kets, notably those of western Europe, nnd perhnps thoso of eastern Asia, western South Amerlcu and tho Paclne Islands. . "To that extent," says Hnrdwood Record, "our lumber business may bo hurt by the flood of forest products from Russia. In normal times Germany Ger-many received 48 per cent ot Its lumber lum-ber Imports from Russia, and England's Eng-land's per cent ot timber Imports from that sourco was- nearly as large. "Lumber shipments from Rissln will como from the Baltic, from tho Arctic coast of Russia proper and Siberia, and from' thu Pacific const of tho latter lat-ter country. The principal lumber markets of tho world cuu bo reached from thoso nolnts.' |