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XYl'UAI. WIIITK I'INE TREK. NMKTIIKKN 

 MINNESOTA. 



ment announeed that after Sept. 21. 1772, 

 in New England, New York and New Jer- 

 sey, in Anieriea, no person should cut or 

 destroy any white pine trees growing in 

 any township or its bounds, without his 

 Majesty 's license. 



The halftone accompanying this artichs 

 illustrating the bole of a white pine tree. 

 is from a photograph made by the writer 

 at Pineola. Mitchell county, N. C. This 

 tree was in the forest of the W. M. Eitter 

 Lumber Company and was approximately 

 fifty inches in diameter and had a height of 

 one hundred feet to the first limb. It was 

 au unusually fine specimen of southern 

 white pine growth, and is published to 

 show that white pine of a very fine type 

 exists in the high ranges of the Blue Eidge. 

 The forest picture of white pine growth 

 was photographed in northern Minnesota, 

 on one of the Weyerhaeuser properties. 

 The other picture, showing an individ- 

 ual white pine tree, is also from a photo- 

 _graph of northern pine. Hence the pictures 

 typify the highest class of southern white 



pine growth and present day northern white 

 pine of not particularly high character. The 

 smaller photograph of the white ])ino stump 

 on which is placed a Imnch nt' white pine 

 straw and cones was made liy the writer 

 near Sutherland, Teiui.. cm the property 

 of the Tennessee Lumber & Manufactur- 

 ing Company. The tree that grew on this 

 stump was more than five feet in diameter 

 and had a height to the first limb of one 

 hundred and ten feet. 



The white pine of southern latitudes, 

 while of the same botany as the white pine 

 of the North, has somewhat ilifferent physi- 

 cal characteristics. The character of the 

 white pine of the North is very accurately 

 described in a previous paragraph in this 

 article. The southern growth is harder in 

 texture and almost invariably the lumber 

 cut from it has a red tinge, especially after 

 being seasoned. In the white pine of the 

 North the knots are often large, black and 

 loose, especially in timber producing a high 

 percentage of shop lumber and better. On 

 the contrarv. the knots in southcni white 



pine are usually round and sound and very 

 often red. At one time white pine in the 

 North existed that would develop from 

 selected logs fully twenty-five per cent of 

 first, second and third clear lumber, while 

 no white pine growing in the South, even 

 troni select logs, has ever shown over five 

 per cent of uppers. Southern white pine 

 makes au excellent quality of common lum- 

 l.'er, but has a comparatively small percent- 

 age of high quality. In relative value the 

 remaining white pine of both northern and 

 southern sections has about an equal value, 

 although the northern product, on account 

 of its being somewhat lighter and more uni- 

 form in texture, commands a little higher 

 price in markets where they come into com- 

 petition. 



The white pine of the North very gener- 

 ally was a pure stand of timber covering, 

 in many instances, unbroken forests of 

 many thousands of acres. In other sec- 

 tions it is found intermingled with Norway, 

 hemlock and hardwood growth. The white 

 pine growth of the .South exists in the form 



STAMI OF WHITE TIXE TIMBER. NORTHERN MINNESOTA. 



