8 . INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT. 



tage the report of what North Carolina has to sell, or wishes to buy. 

 For the people at large it has a statistical value, and gives much general 

 information. 



It gives valuable information concerning the forms, uses, and grades 

 in which the factories desire the lumber, and also the woods most suit- 

 able for particular purposes. The chief purposes of this report are to 

 give needed information regarding these industries, to stimulate trade 

 by bringing together buyer and seller, and to show the citizens of North 

 Carolina the wisdom of perpetuating her valuable wood-using industries 

 by the adoption of an intelligent forest policy. Two appendices have 

 been added to this report. The first gives a list of the different kinds 

 of woods that are found in North Carolina, together with the various 

 purposes for which they are used, and the second appendix gives a list 

 of the wood manufacturers of North Carolina under the heads of the 

 products which they manufacture. 



The information contained in this report was gathered in the fall of 

 1909 by the Forest Sendee of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture and the Forestry Division of the North Carolina Geological and 

 Economic Survey, and these two departments desire to express their 

 thanks to the manufacturers supplying this information, and especially 

 to those who have answered requests for information by mail. The re- 

 port has been compiled by Mr. Koger E. Simmons, under the supervision 

 of Mr. J. S. Holmes, Forester of the North Carolina Geological and 

 Economic Survey, and Mr. H. S. Sackett of the United States Forest 

 Service. 



The value of the timber crop in North Carolina is exceeded only by 

 that of the cotton and corn crops. According to the United States Cen- 

 sus Bureau, the value of the lumber-cut of this State amounted in 1908 

 to $15,000,000. 



The following report shows that half of this lumber was purchased 

 by firms in this State and manufactured by them into a finished product. 

 For this lumber, together with a small amount of logs, billets, and 

 timber in other forms which they used, these firms paid something over 

 $10,000,000. 



This enormous industry has been dependent for its supply of raw 

 material almost entirely on timber that has grown up under natural 

 conditions, the present owners being in no way responsible or assisting 

 in its production, much of the timber having been growing for 200 to 

 300 years. As this old timber disappears, as it is rapidly doing, the 

 methods of the producers will have to change, or else one of two things 



