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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



eastern and northeastern part held valuable stands of white pine. 

 Hemlock, too, was scattered on the high hills. The remainder of 

 the State was a forest of deciduous growth. Probably in no section 

 of the United States were there finer hardwoods than in the Ohio 

 valley, particularly in the central and southern portions of this 

 State. Magnificent specimens still to be seen standing* here and 

 there confirm this and make one realize the almost inconceivable 

 wealth Ohio had in her timbered lands. For a long- time, and even 

 today, manufacturers making- hig-h grade products specify woods 

 cut in Ohio and Indiana, considering- their quality superior to similar 

 growth in other States. On the uplands forests the principal trees 

 were the oak, hickory, sug-ar maple, white ash, yellow poplar, black 

 walnut, black cherry, basswood, and beech. In lower areas grew 

 the elm, soft maple, black ash, sycamore, willow, red g-um, bur oak, 

 hackberry, cottonwood and red g^um. 



Fig. 1. A representative of the original forest. 



