LOBLOLLY OR NORTH CAROLINA PINE. 7 



The pine industries of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North 

 Carolina are so closely associated that it is impossible to separate them. 

 A large portion of the logs cut in northeastern North Carolina is manu- 

 factured in Virginia chiefly at or in the vicinity of Norfolk, Suffolk, 

 Franklin, Emporia, and Whaleyville. It is estimated that 175,000,000 

 feet, or nearly half of the output of the mills in this section of Virginia, 

 are from logs brought from North Carolina, the importations being dis- 

 tributed approximately as follows : 50 per cent of the output of Nanse- 

 inond County ; 90 per cent of the output of Norfolk County and 60 per 

 cent of the output of Southampton County. Some of the other counties 

 which lie on or near the state line, such as Greenesville, also obtain small 

 amounts of their timber from North Carolina. It is conservative there- 

 fore to say that the cut of loblolly pine timber in North Carolina in 

 1912 exceeded 1,250,000,000 board feet. The timber from which this 

 was cut had a stumpage value of not less than $4,000,000, while the 

 value of the entire output of loblolly pine in North Carolina embracing 

 both the lumber delivered on the cars and the round timber which was 

 cut in the State, but manufactured outside, amounted to more than 

 $16,000,000. The cut of North Carolina pine lumber in North Carolina 

 has probably attained its maximum. 



Small operators still cut a large amount of North Carolina pine 

 lumber. Of the total number of operations there were in 1912 only 22 

 in North Carolina that had an annual cut in excess of 10,000,000 board 

 feet. These 22 had a combined cut of 384,000,000 board feet, compared 

 with a cut of 695,061,000 board feet for the remaining 600 operations. 

 At the same time in the counties north of Georgetown in South Caro- 

 lina there were only six operations that had an output in excess of 10,- 

 000,000 board feet, and in the nine southeastern counties of Virginia 

 only 12 operations had outputs of this volume. 



The largest single operation in the North Carolina pine field is at 

 Georgetown, S. C., with an estimated output of about 100,000,000 board 

 feet a year. A wood alcohol plant is operated in connection with this 

 sawmill to utilize the waste. The Norfolk District embracing the five 

 counties of Norfolk, Nansemond, Princess Anne, Isle of Wight, and 

 Southampton, with an output of more than 180,000,000 board feet a 

 year, still maintains its supremacy not only as a distributing center but 

 also as a producing center. 



The amount of mature loblolly pine timber in North Carolina is about 

 15,000,000,000 board feet. This pine occupies in pure growth or asso- 

 ciated with other species more than 8,000 square miles in North Caro- 

 lina. Since the rate of growth of this species even under present un- 

 favorable conditions is not less than 150 board feet per acre of commer- 

 cial saw-timber a year replacement is at the rate of about 800,000,000 

 board feet a year and consequently is taking place at more than half 

 of the rate of utilization for lumber. It is believed that if the forest 

 lands of eastern North Carolina were being well managed the present 

 cut could be maintained permanently. 



