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/'/<>ri<i/. The northern part of Florida, including 

 half of the jx-ninsula, is a forested region, covered in 

 the main with yellow pine, with a large amount of 

 impress in the marshy region-. c-|>ccially along the 

 coasts. The fore-t i- not continuous, but is much broken 

 by prairie openings. Cutting in recent years has been 

 ijuite active, the product having doubled between 1890 

 ami 1900. The chief lumber product of the state is 

 yellow pine, with a large amount of cypress. 



The wooded area of the state is estimated at 37,700 

 square miles, or 70 per cent of its area, most of which 

 i- occupied by merchantable timber. 



The only e-timute of the timber which we have is 

 that of Professor Sargent in 1880, which gives 6,616 

 million feet of yellow pine. 



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The cut of pine m uoo wan a trifle over a billion feet, 



U'iiig nine tenth- of tin- total ,-ut of thevtete. 



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Mi*n**!pi>i. Thi xtate wax originally nearly all 

 covered with timber. consiNtin^ of pim- in the -.oiithern 

 third, of which a long tongue extended nearly to the 

 north line of the -tatr. following roughly the divide 

 between the Mifwinttippi and the TuNcaloom river-. 

 There wa.- also a small area near the TenneMtee River in 

 the northeastern corner. Elsewhere the timber eon- 

 HiHted almoHt entirely of hard wood with miu-h \ |.i.--- 

 in the Yazoo Bottom. 



The timbered area of the state is estimated to comprise 

 32,300 square miles, or s-ven -tenths of \t area. The 

 estimated stand of yellow pine, as given by Sargent in 

 1880, was 24,975 million feet Of this, seven and a half 

 billion are reported an owned by lumbermen. More 

 than three-fourth* of the cut of 1900 consisted of yellow 

 pine, the remainder being largely oak. 



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