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TIMnER PINKS OF THE SOUTHEKN UNITED STATES. 



Ttihttlo)' slatenicnt <tf expoi'ift of himbvr from Saviiniiah, Ihtrlen, Jirunswick, and St, Alari/s to foreign and domestic ports 

 ujhI shipments by railroad to inland markets from 1SS3-S1 to 1803-94. 



This makes a grand total for the ten years ended 18!»4 of 2,836,000,000 feet, board measure, 

 with an aggregate value, at present export rates ($11 per 1,000 feet), of at least $31,190,000. 



In the production of naval stores Georgia takes the lead. By the statements of tlie census 

 of 1870, only 3,208 casks of sjiirits of turpentine and 13,840 barrels of rosin, valued at 805,070, 

 were ])roduced during that year in the State. In the course of the following ten years this 

 industry progressed steadily and rajiidly. In 1888 exports from Savannah, at iiresent the 

 greatest niarlcet in the world for tliese iiroducts, had increased to 108,000 casks of spirits of 

 turpentine and 054,000 barrels of rosin, of a total value of $3,880,000. 



statement of ex/iorts of naval i^toren from Savann<ih dnrinff tin ^earn 1SS0-1S94, 



Valued at $49,401,031. 



The lliglu^st prices for these stores in Savannah were obtained in 18S(i, with $10.50 per cask of 

 50 gallons for sjiirits of turpentine and $2.25 per barrel of rosin of 280 jtounds gross ; and the lowest 

 in 1887-88, with thcpritie of spirits of turpentine at $14.25 ))er cask anil $1.40 per barrel t.f rosin. 

 On close scrutiny of tlu; ])rices ruling at Wilmington, for the eleven years after 1880 the ])rice of a 

 cask of spirits of tiir])entiiu! averaged $18 and of a hand of rosin $1.00, lowest grades nl' llu- latter 

 excluded. 



Floriilu. — That ])art of the State between tiie .Suwanee EIvcm- and tlie Atlantic Coast, as far 

 south as St. Aiigiistiiie, can be considered as part of the Atlantic iiine region, and covers an area 

 of about 4,700 sijuare miles. In the basin of the St. .Johns Itivcr a large jiart of the land has 

 been devoted to the <!ultivation of the citrus fruits. The principal siles of tlic niaiinfacture of 

 lumber ill this section of the State are Ellaville, in Madison County, on the Suwanee liiver, and 

 Jacksoin illc. The supjilies once existing along the Cedar Keys and f'eriuindina Kailroad are at 

 present well nigli exhausted. South of St. Augustine the Longlcaf I'inc is less coimiion and in 

 general inferior in size. The timber on the extensive liat woods to the ICverglades, covered with 

 the Saw Palmetto, is stunted and the I'orests are very open, and in the more fertile soils l.ongleaf 

 Pine is largely replaced by Cuban Piue. In the central section of the peninsula, with its numerous 

 lakes, the Longlcaf V'uw is largely associated with the Sand I'ine (I'lniix cJinisn], and hard woods 

 prevail on the ujiland liiimmock lands. 



TIIK MAHIM.MK I'INK liEI.T iiK TIIK KASTKUX C,V\.V KKOIOX. 



From the banks of the Suwanee Iviver to the uiilands boideiin.u' the alluvial lamis of tlio 

 Mississijijii (his jiine belt, varying from 00 to 125 miles in width, covers an area roughly estimated 



