40 



TIMIJIili I'INES OF THE SOUTilERN UNITED STATER. 



liinihcr is ciirriLHloii extensively, tlic output going to Northern markets. Mucli of the lieavy hewn 

 timber that is exported from Mobile ami I'ensacola is furnished by this section. 



Ill (•ollecting the statistics on the lumbering interest.s in the maritime i)ine belt of Alabama 

 the information kindly furnished by firms engaged in the sawmill busines.s or the lumber trade lias 

 chiefly been relied upon. The annual production was ariived at by multi|)lying the average daily 

 output repoited by 1!0(>, the assumed number of working days of the year. From these data it 

 appears that during the year ISlt.'J the daily output of the2.'> points reported from amounted in the 

 aggregate to about 7<iS,()()i) feet, or to 1!»2,<I0(I.(I(I(I feet, board measuic. for the year. This tigurecau 

 be sai<l to rei>resent the average of the annual production for the past tliree years. To this amount, 

 at a low estimate, S."),00(),()00 feet of round timber are to be ailded, eut in Alabama and sawn in 

 west<'iii I'Morida, including the hewn square timber shii)])e(l froui the State to I'ensacola, thus 

 swelling the present aniinal production of lumber and square timber in the maritime ])ine belt of 

 Alabama to a total of about UV7,(K)(t.(»(M) feet, board measure. The statemeut of the annual exports 

 of these ]>roducts from Mobile by water and by rail for the i)ast fourteen yeara will aptly illustrate 

 the steady inereas(^ of the lumbering interests during this period. 



Slalrincnl of exports 0/ miuan' timber, hunt and ndini, and 0/ lumber shippid from Mobile In foreiijn and domestic porta from 



the year 1879-SO to the end of the year 1894. 



Year. 



Square I 

 timber, hewu 

 and Bawii. I 



I Total lumber 

 Lumber. and square 

 timoer. 



IS79-SU 

 1880-81 

 I8»l-8.i 

 1882-83 

 I88:t-)<4 

 1HK4-85 

 188.1-80 

 lSlSIJ-87 

 1887-88 

 188«-8'J 

 1889-'.I0 

 1890-Hl 

 1891-U2 

 1892-03 

 1893-94 



Ciihic feet. 

 745. 000 

 1, 72.'), (100 

 1. 074, 000 

 ].GS2,g04 

 3,810,714 

 3, 121, 794 

 2, 973, 206 

 1. 863, 259 

 2,450.257 

 3, 04!l, 440 

 3,811,987 

 3, 592. 924 

 5, 072, 088 

 5 377,009 

 4,147,825 



I 



Feet 

 13. 

 18, 

 32. 

 26, 

 22, 

 22] 

 21, 

 29, 

 29, 

 48, 

 52, 

 50, 

 61, 

 79, 

 67, 



, li. M. 



572. 000 

 101, 000 

 230. 000 

 753, 84:1 

 251.000 

 256, 000 

 435, 500 

 346,000 

 257, 000 

 284, 000 

 879, 0110 

 892, OliO 

 805, 805 

 304, 565 

 209. 745 



Feet, 

 22. 



:m. 

 53, 



40, 



07. 



50. 



50. 



611. 



50. 

 100. 

 111. 

 122 

 14l! 

 102, 

 120. 



Value. 



li.M. 

 .52.1. 000 

 872, 000 

 350, 000 

 588, 000 

 078. 000 

 045, 000 

 580, 000 

 723, 000 

 "10.0110 

 OOti, oco 

 050,810 

 000. 000 

 703, 700 

 006, 700 

 084, 500 



$280. 825 



400, 348 



710,012 



582, 000 



801.000 



630, 053 



5H8, 148 



641.215 



077. 8('4 



1.081.828 



1,201. 034 



1,415,000 



1, 095. 000 



1, 590. 900 



1. 270, U(K) 



The first statement of the production of naval stm-es in Alabama is that reiiorted to the census 

 of 18.10, mentioned in that year as of a value of ■'*17,.S00. In 1S70 the production had increased 

 to 8,2(H» casks of spirits of turpentine and .");5,17.") barrels of rosin, valued at .S2.SO,20;5. In 187;i the 

 re(;eipts in the market of Mobile had fully doubled, amounting to nearly liO.dOO casks of spirits of 

 turpentine and to from 7.''>,(t(»() to 1(»(),0I>0 barrels of rosin, besides 1,0110 barrels of tar and jiitih, 

 of a total value of •>i7.'>(),0l)0. The largest production was reached in 1875, when the rec^eipts reached 

 a value of .*1, 200,01)0, up to the iiresent only approximated in 1883 with 43,870 casks of spirits of 

 turpentine and 200,(12.") barrels ot rosin, valued at ■"*1,100,700. Since ISS.S a steady decline in the 

 receiiits of these products has taken place, due to the exhaustion of the supplies near the commer- 

 cial highways. 



Table of exports of naval stores from Mobile during the period of 18S0-1S94. 



KoaiD. 



Barrel*. 



158,482 

 170.618 

 172, 438 

 200,125 

 210,572 

 200.688 

 175, 817 

 182, 955 



Total 

 valui!. 



Kosiu. 



Jtarrel*. 

 132, 055 

 100, 129 I 

 93,900 I 

 89,872 

 87. 920 

 69. 120 

 85, 019 



Total 

 vnhiH. 



$.j35. 090 

 4.58. 002 

 355, 180 

 453, 056 



