REPORT ON THE TIMBER GROWTH 
OF 
GREENUP, CARTER, BOYD & LAWRENCE COUNTIES, 
IN EASTERN KENTUCKY. 
By awk CRANDALE. 
The timber of Eastern Kentucky might, from its suitableness 
to meet two classes of wants, be considered with reference to 
use in iron-making, or as fuel; and with reference to the uses 
which give rise to a demand for lumber and other forest pro- 
‘ducts. Following this division of the subject, a very large 
proportion of the forest growth would fall under the latter head- 
ing. But as practically the purpose to which it will be turned 
-depends not so much on the character of the timber itself as 
on the character of the demand for it—a demand shaped largely 
by such accidents as the facilities, or want of facilities for 
transportation—it will be as well, perhaps, to treat the subject 
in amore general way, or simply as to the kinds of forest trees 
and their distribution. 
The difficulties which now stand in the way of bringing the 
‘more valuable timber of Eastern Kentucky into market, inev- 
itably turn it to furnace use where furnaces are within reach ; 
-and where neither furnaces nor marketing facilities give imme- 
-diate value to the forests, the timber that is not burned in the 
ordinary process of clearing and fencing land, or that is not 
wantonly destroyed, awaits the developments of time only to 
-determine whether the more valuable part shall be turned to 
use in a wide range of wood manufactures, or consumed in- 
-discriminately with the rest in the smelting of the ores which 
abound in this region. 
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