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on the lands which the loblolly pine has thus possessed. The 

 shade of the loblolly pine with that formed by the accompanying 

 undergrowth of broad-leaf trees is too deep for the growth of the x 

 long-leaf pine seedling beneath them, even where there are long- 

 leaf pines standing near that might produce the necessary seed. 



SUPPLY AND UTILIZATION OF LONG-LEAF PINE. 



The larger bodies of merchantable long-leaf pine lie in Bladen, 

 Robeson, Cumberland, Moore, and Montgomery counties, the 

 last being within the transitional region. There are smaller 

 bodies in Sampson, Brunswick, Columbus, and Harnett counties. 

 Nearly all of this has been tapped for turpentine. The total 

 amount standing is estimated to be less than 3,000,000,000 feet, 

 board measure, distributed so as to yield on pine lands an average 

 cut of lees than 3,000 feet, board measure, to the acre. 



The greater part of the long-leaf pine timber is converted into 

 lumber. Wilmington, the chief seat of the manufacture of long- 

 leaf pine lumber in North Carolina, is now supplied by rafts 

 floated down the Northeast and Cape Fear rivers. The manu- 

 factured products go to coastwise ports and the West India 

 Islands. The total shipments of long-leaf pine lumber from this 

 port for 1896, amounted to about 20,000,000 feet, board measure. 



The most active lumber operations in the interior are at Aber- 

 deen, Troy Junction, and near Carthage. These mills not being 

 on large water-courses obtain their timber by means of small rail- 

 ways which penetrate the unlnmbered forest, and on which logs 

 are brought in and delivered at the mills. 



Logs of great length are easily handled, and a large part of the 

 timber gotten out is of large dimensions for trestleing, framing, and 

 other exceptional uses. 



All railways passing through the long-leaf pine region use ties 

 of this pine exclusively ; and besides, such ties are used to a con- 

 siderable extent on other parts of these lines not lying within the 

 distribution of the long-leaf pine. 



An explanation of the method of extracting resin from the long- 



