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TaBLE 7.—EsTIMATE, BY TYPES, OF TOTAL MERCHANTABLE TIMBER FOR 
AREA MapPeD 
Average board feet Total board feet 
Type* Acreage per acre for type 
UpLanp—131,217 AcRES 
No. 1 118,247 1,000 118,247,000 
No. 2 12,584 3,750 47,190,000 
No. 3 368 7,500 2,760,000 
No. 4 18 12,000 216,000 
. BotromMLAND—16,419 AcREs 
No. 1B 12,473 1,000 12,473,000 
No. 2B 937 3,750 3,513,000 
1B cypress 2,894 1,000 2,894,000 
2B cypress 115 3,750 431,250 
Totals 147,636 acres 187,725,000 board feet 
*See pages 298 and 299. 
ANNUAL CUT IN BOARD FEET 
The total cut for the region under discussion and covered by our 
map is hard to estimate, but it was arrived at in the following manner: 
The best information obtainable was secured as to the amount of timber 
used by the veneer plants at Jonesboro, Anna, Cobden, and Dongola— 
towns which lie at the center of the fruit-producing section; the average 
railroad tie was figured as containing 33 board feet, and the estimate of 
timber going into them was based on returns from the various railroad 
companies as to the number of IIlinois-produced ties requisitioned by them 
in 1921—a total of 913,940. With this number as a basis for estimate it 
was assumed that southern Illinois in normal times produced 500,000 and 
that 300,000 of these at least would come from this region; the amount of 
sawed lumber was obtained by adding to the actual output of the large 
stationary mills an assumed amount for the smaller portable mills based 
on the actual number of days which they might run—which is quite a 
variable period; and the amount of mine timbers cut in the region and 
shipped to adjacent counties, upon which there is no definite check, was 
placed at 4,000,000 board feet. While the individual assignments are 
necessarily inexact we believe that the total, when made up as follows, 
is approximately correct. 
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