36 



TIMHKK PINES OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES. 



Tahular ulaltmeat <if export* of lumber from Sarnnnnh. llarie.n, Hrunucick, and SI. Mary* i<> fi>rei<iu ami <l,ini<*ti<- i>,,rti 

 and shipment! by railroad la inland market! /com 1883-SJ to 1893-94. 



This makes a grand total for the ten years ended. 1804 of 2,836,000,000 feet, board measure, 

 with an aggregate value, at present export rates ($11 per 1,000 feet), of at least $31,196,000. 



In the production of naval stores Georgia takes the lead. By the statements of the census 

 of 1870, only 3,208 casks of spirits of turpentine and 13,840 barrels of rosin, valued at $95,!i7<>, 

 were produced during that year in the State. In the course of the following ten years this 

 industry progressed steadily and rapidly. In 1888 exports from Savannah, at present the 

 greatest market in the world for these products, had increased to 168,000 casks of spirits of 

 turpentine and 654,000 barrels of rosin, of a total value of $3,880,000. 



Statement of export* of naval stores from Savannah during the yearn 18SO-1S94. 



Valued at $49,401, 031. 



The highest prices for these stores in Savannah were obtained iu 1880, with $19.50 per cask of 

 50 gallons for spirits of turpentine and $2.25 per barrel of rosin of 280 pounds gross ; and the lowest 

 in 1887-88, with the price of spirits of turpentine at $14.25 per cask and $1.40 per barrel of rosin. 

 On dose scrutiny of the prices ruling at Wilmington, for the eleven years after 1880 the price of a 

 cask of spirits of turpentine averaged $18 and of a barrel of rosin $1.90, lowest grades of the latter 

 excluded. 



Florida. That part of the State between the Suwanee River and the Atlantic Coast, as far 

 south as St. Augustine, can be considered as part of the Atlantic pine region, and covers an area 

 of about 4,700 square miles. In the basin of the St. Johns River a large part of the land has 

 been devoted to the cultivation of the citrus fruits. The principal sites of the, manufacture of 

 lumber in this section of the State are Ellaville, in Madison County, on the Suwauee River, and 

 Jacksonville. The supplies once existing along the Cedar Keys and Fernandina Railroad are at 

 present well nigh exhausted. South of St. Augustine the Longleaf Tine is less common and in 

 general inferior in size. The timber on the extensive Hat woods to the Kverglades, covered with 

 the Saw Palmetto, is si tinted and the forests are very open, and in the more fertile soils Longleaf 

 Pine is largely replaced by Cuban Pine. In the central section of the peninsula, with its numerous 

 lakes, the Longleaf Pine is often associated with the Sand Pine (Pinus clausa), and hard woods 

 prevail on the upland hummock lauds. 



mi: MAK1TIMK 1'IXK HKI.T OF TI1K KASTKRN GULF KERION. 



From the banks of the Suwauee River to the uplands bordering the alluvial lands of the 

 Mississippi this pine belt, varying from 90 to 125 miles in width, covers an area roughly estimated 



