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ducing a rank growth of grass. This 

 land has recently been cleared of its tim- 

 ber, which was rather thin on the ground, 

 but the yellow pine trees were of large 

 size. The location is within from one to 

 two miles of the Mississippi Sound. 



Two years ago a company planted a 

 considerable number of Catalpa trees near 

 Perdido River in the eastern portion of 

 Baldwin County, which have been per- 

 fectly successful. 



Thus in the southern portion of Ala- 

 bama, within a radius of thirty miles from 

 Mobile, there have now been planted up- 



wards of one million trees for timber pur- 

 poses. Every shade of soil within this 

 belt is thus being tested, and a movement 

 inaugurated, with ample capital in each 

 case, to guarantee a thorough trial of this 

 Indiana tree, which bids fair to revolu- 

 tionize the whole timber industry of the 

 South. With the development of this in- 

 dustry there will open to the South a use 

 for large areas of her lands for which 

 they were peculiarly adapted, and which 

 will be productive of a larger revenue 

 than could be realized from these lands by 

 anv other method. 



Y e 1 1 o w Pine Supply 



The New Orleans Picayune and Times 

 Democrat both have interviews with Mr. 

 J. Piatt Underwood which contain much 

 food for thought, and the owners of tim- 

 ber lands in the South will do well to heed 

 Mr. Underwood's advice. 



The subject is made more apparent 

 from the action of the North Carolina 

 Pine Association, at Norfolk, which on 

 February i made a sensational advance 

 of $2.00 per thousand feet on all grades, 

 and $5.00 per thousand feet on some 

 grades, a net advance of from 5 to 15 per 

 cent. 



"No man can say how many years it 

 will take to exhaust the yellow pine 

 stumpage of the South, but we do know 

 that between thirty and eighty years must 

 elapse before we can cut the second 

 growth," said J. Piatt Underwood, of 

 Chicago, an extensive dealer in Southern 

 timber lands, yesterday at the St. 

 Charles. 



"Permanency of the lumber industry 

 will depend upon reforestation. To illus- 

 trate the disparity of opinion," continued 

 Mr. Underwood, "I attended a confer- 



ence of lumber men interested in the in- 

 dustry in the South in Chicago one month 

 ago. Three said they believed the Gov- 

 ernment estimate was as nearly correct as 

 it was possible to get it. Four others de- 

 clared that the Government was far away 

 from the mark. They firmly believed that 

 the estimate fell fully one-third short. 

 But here is the proposition and the wav 

 to look at it : We have a fair idea of how 

 much yellow pine there is standing on the 

 stump. I do not recall the estimate, but 

 for example we will say that there are 

 10.000,000 bales of cotton in the world. 

 That is all that will be produced for one 

 hundred years. The annual consumption 

 is 1,000,000 bales. What do you suppose 

 the last 3,000,000 bales would be worth, 

 comparing the price with that which the 

 first 1,000,000 brought? 



"There you have exactly the yellow 

 pine situation. We know that it will be 

 thirty to eighty years before we will have 

 a second growth. We know pretty close 

 what we have got now The answer onlv 

 can be that yellow pine is to continue to 

 increase in price. The demand is grow- 



