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TIMBEE PINES OF THE SOUTHERN UNITICl) STATES. 



stores was fir.st carried oil ; ro.sin, tar, and pitcli fij^ured in early i-olonial times ainonjj tlii' most 

 important articles of export. In coMseijueiiee, tlie forests of tbe Louyleaf i'ine have been, wilii but 

 slight exceptions, invaded by turpentine orchardin}?, and at the i)resent time by far the {;:reater 

 part of the timber staiidiiiji' lias been tapped for its resin. The forests of the Lon^'-leaf Viw. in this 

 State cover tiie largest area in the basin of Cape Fear River, with Wilmington the main ])ort of 

 export for their jnoduets. The export from this port had increased from 21,<)O(),O0() feet of lumber 

 in ISSO, to nearly J(t,0(t(),(t(iO annnally, on the average, for the years 1S,S7 to ISOl. 



The forests of the Longleaf i'ine on the, banks of the Neuse River, in .lohnstoii County and in 

 Wayne County, are almost exhausted; about 40 to 50 per cent of the timbi^i sawn at (Joldsboro 

 and Dover is Longh-af Pine timber from that section, and is invariably bled. A considerable 

 number of the trees from the old turpentine orchards, with the excoriated surface of the trunk 

 ("chip") over 2.") feet in length and bled again after a lapse of years, show that they have been 

 worked for their resin for twenty to twenty-four years in succession, and after a longer or shorter 

 period of rest have been subjected to the same treatment continually for tins same number of years. 

 8ucliold martyrs of the turpentine orchard are untit for lumber, but, impregnated as they are with 

 resin, are used for iiiling and for posts of great durability. 



Ivist of the Neuse River, from the upper part of .lohnston County, in an almost southern 

 direction to Newbern, no Longleaf I'ine has been observed. Single trees of the Sliortlcaf Rine 

 {l'i)ti(.s evhinain) have been tbuiid scattered among the growth of det-iduous trees whieh cover the 

 ridges between the Trent and Neu.se rivers, and isolated tracts of a tew a(!rea of the Longleaf species 

 are met with in the low tlats of the same section, which were in 1.S94 almost exclusively occiqiied 

 by the Loblolly I'ine. 



As rei)orted for the Tenth Census, the amount of Longleaf Rine standing in North Carolina at 

 the beginning of the census year was estimated to be ."),i;i,".I.CO(l.()()0 feet, board measure. No reliable 

 information could be obtained as to the amount of timber cut since ISSO, consequently no data are 

 at hand from which to compute the amount now standing. The cut for the year 1880 is given in 

 the census report at 10S,I()((,0()0 feet, board nieasuie. In ISitO, eighteen mills were ennnieraled as 

 engaged in sawing exclusively Longleaf i'ine timber, almost all situated in the basin of Cape I't^ar 

 River, witli a daily aggregate capacity of 475,000 feet, board measure. Such capacity would point 

 to an aniinal cut of at least 05,000,000 feet, board measure. 



statement of the ehipmcnte of nni-al atorea from Vilmwgfon, X. C. 

 [From J. L. Cantwell, uecretary Wilmington Prodnce Exchange.] 



Total viiluo, $30,500,000. 



Statement of aliiiimriilH of lumber to foreign and domestic porta from IVilmington, N. C. 



