LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 



CHAPEL HILL, IN". C., July 1, 1910. 



To His Excellency, Hox. W. W. KITCHIN, 



Governor of North Carolina. 



SIR : There has just been prepared a report on the Wood-using Indus- 

 tries of North Carolina, which has been compiled by Mr. Roger E. Sim- 

 mons. This report has been prepared jointly by the North Carolina 

 Geological and Economic Survey and the U. S. Forest Service, and I 

 would recommend that this be published as Economic Paper No. 20 of 

 the reports of the Survey. This report should be of considerable value 

 to the State of North Carolina in forming a forest policy which, if 

 worked out along certain lines, will insure a permanent supply of raw 

 material for our wood-using industries. The report will also be of 

 interest and value to the timber owner, the sawmill operator, and the 

 manufacturers and merchants who handle the finished products* 



Yours respectfully, 



JOSEPH HYDE PRATT, 



State Geologist. 



