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used at home or shipped to our larger eastern and north- 

 ern markets. Among the most important points of manu- 

 facture and shipment are : Savannah and Brunswick, Ga. ; 

 Jacksonville and Pensacola, Fla. ; Mobile, Ala. ; Pasca- 

 goula, Miss. ; Lake Charles, La. ; and Beaumont, Texas. 



The North Carolina pine is cut in Virginia and North 

 Carolina, made mostly into boards, and is marketed at 

 Norfolk and Baltimore, and has become a common article 

 even in the retail lumber yards of our eastern and northern 

 towns. It is often called yellow pine and is extensively 

 used as flooring and ceiling, especially in schools and other 

 public buildings, where the bright orange-red and yellow 

 patterns of this material are brought out strongly by a 

 " natural " or oil finish. 



The yellow pine marketed in St. Louis, Kansas City, 

 and points in Texas is cut mostly from the true shortleaf 

 pine of Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, and northern Louisiana. 

 It is cut into all sizes, boards and timber, and is the com- 

 mon building material of these regions. 



The yellow pine of the Rocky Mountains and parts of 

 California, Oregon, and Washington resembles the eastern 

 yellow pine, but is cut from a different species of tree. 

 It, together with red fir, forms the common building 

 material as well as the principal mining timber of these 

 mountain states. 



Spruce is the common timber of the "white-pine state " 

 of Maine, and of New England and eastern Canada. It 



