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industries for counties, but according to the report of the State 

 Commissioner of Agriculture for 191 3-14 there were in the 15 

 counties of central Florida at that time 102 sawmills and 51 tur- 

 pentine stills. The State census of 191 5 found in 13 counties (no 

 returns on this point having been received from Osceola and Polk) 

 109 sawmills, with an average capital of $25,000 and 34.2 em- 

 ployees each, and y'] turpentine stills, with $31,500 capital and 33.9 

 employees each. 



From a mimeographed directory of Florida sawmills made by 

 the United Sawmills Co. of New Orleans and Atlanta early in 

 191 5 the following statistics of the number and average capacity 

 (in board feet per day) of the mills of central Florida, by regions, 

 have been derived. 



TABLE 21 



Number and Average, Daily Capacity of Sawmills in Central Florida, 1915, by 



Regions. 



REGIONS 



No. 



Capacity 



1. 

 2. 



3. 

 4. 

 5. 

 6. 



7. 



8. 



9. 



10. 



West coast islands 



Gulf hammock region 



Middle Florida flatwoods 



Lime-sink region 



iliddle Florida hammock belt 



Hernando hammock belt 



Lake region 



Southwestern flatwoods 



Southeastern flatwoods 



East coast strip 







7 







44 



5 



7 



36 



20 



10 



1 



65,700 



31.136 

 20,000 

 10,000 

 30.555 

 42.500 

 18.500 

 10,000 



Whole area 



130 



31,962 



Of course these figures should not be taken literally, for no 

 doubt some very small mills, which would bring down the average 

 capacity, were overlooked; and a mill near the edge of a region 

 might get some or most of its timber from an adjoining region. 

 But it is interesting to note that the lake region, the largest of all, 

 has not as many sawmills as the lime-sink region, and they are a 

 little below the average in daily capacity. The capacity seems to 

 be roughly proportional to the density of the pine forests. Prob- 

 ably at least nine-tenths of the lumber is pine, but there are a few 

 mills that specialize in cypress or hardwoods. 



Besides being sawn into lumber a good deal of the pine is 

 worked up into veneers, used in making crates and hampers to ship 



