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TIMBER PINES OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES. 



lumber is carried on extensively, tlie output going to Northern markets. Much of the heavy hewn 

 timber that is exported from Mobile and Pensacola is funiished by tliis section. 



In collec-ting the statistics on the lumbering interests in the maritime pine belt of Alabama 

 the information kindly furnished by firms engaged in the sawmill business or the lumber trade has 

 chiefly been relied upon. Tiie annual production was arrived at by multiplying the average daily 

 output reported by iiOO, the assumed number of working days of the year. From these data it 

 ai)pears that during tlie year 18!t;5 the daily outiuit of the 25 jioiiits reported from amounted in the 

 aggregate to about 7US,0()0 feet, or to l'J2,0()(t,000 ieet, board measure, for the year. This ligure can 

 be said to rejircseut the average of the annual production for the past three years. To this amount, 

 at a low estimate, 8r),()()(l,(i(l() feet of round timber are to be added, cut in Alabama and sawn in 

 westei'u I'"l()ii(la, including the hewn square timber shipped from the State to I'ensacola, thus 

 swelling the present annual ])rodu(!tion of lumber and square timber in the maritime pine belt of 

 Alabama to a total of about 277,()()(l.(K)0 feet, board measure. The statement of the annual exports 

 of these products from i\IobiIc by water and by rail for the past fourteen yeary will aptly illustrate 

 the steady increase of tlie lumbering interests during this period. 



Statement of erpnrts of square t'lmher, hiirn ami Sdirn, and of lumber shipped from Mobile to foreign and dumestie porta from 



the year 1879-SO to the end of the year 1S94. 



The first statement of the production of naval stores in Alabama is that reported to the census 

 of IS.JO, mentioned in that year as of a value of $L7,S0(). In 1870 the production had increased 

 to 8,200 casks of sjjirits of turjieiitine and r),'?,175 barrels of rosin, valued at .$280,203. In 1873 the 

 receipts in the market of Mobih^ had fully doubled, amounting to nearly 2(i,(i(lO casks of sjiirits of 

 turpentine and to from 75,000 to 100,000 barrels of rosin, besides 1,000 barrels of tar and pitch, 

 of a total value of ,$7.50,000. The largest production was reached in 1875, when the receipts reached 

 a value of >^I,l!(H),(M)(», up to the ])resent only ai)i)i'oxiniatcd in 1883 with 4.3,870 casks of spirits of 

 turpentine and 2(10,025 barrels ot rosin, valued at *l,10'.t,7()0. Since 1888 a steady decline in the 

 receipts of these pidduets has taken place, due to the exhaustion of the supplies near the commer- 

 cial highways. 



table of e.rports of narnl stores from Mobile dnriny the period of 18S0-1S04. 



Uosin. 



Barrels. 



1.58.482 

 170.010 

 172,438 

 200, 125 

 210.572 

 200. 688 

 17.5, 817 

 182, 955 



Total 

 value. 



Kosin. 



Total 

 value. 



BarreU. 



1»2.055 



106.129 I 



93,906 I 



89,872 I $J3.">. 690 



87.920 I 458,002 



09, 120 355, 180 



85,019 453,656 



