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TIMBER I'INES OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES. 



lumber is carried on extensively, the output going to Northern markets. Much of the heavy hewn 

 timber that is exported from Mobile and Pensacola is furnished by this section. 



In collecting the statistics on the lumbering interests in the maritime pine belt of Alabama 

 the information kindly furnished by firms engaged in the sawmill business or the lumber trade has 

 chiefly been relied upon. The annual production was arrived at by multiplying the average daily 

 output reported by 200, the assumed number of working days of the year. From these data it 

 appears that during the year 1893 the daily output of the 25 points reported from amounted in the 

 aggregate to about 768,000 feet, or to 192,000,000 feet, board measure, for the year. This figure can 

 be said to represent the average of the annual production for the past three years. To this amount, 

 at a low estimate, 85,000,000 feet of round timber are to be added, cut in Alabama and sawn in 

 western Florida, including the hewn square timber shipped from the State to Pensacola, thus 

 swelling the present annual production of lumber and square timber in the maritime pine belt of 

 Alabama to a total of about 277,000,000 feet, board measure. The statement of the annual exports 

 of these products from Mobile by water and by rail for the past fourteen years will aptly illustrate 

 the steady increase of the lumbering interests during this period. 



Statement of efforts of square timber, lutcn and satrn, andof lumber shipped from Mobile to foreign and domestic port* from 



the year 1879-80 to the end of the year 1894. 



The first statement of the production of naval stores in Alabama is that reported to the census 

 of 1850, mentioned in that year as of a value of $17,800. In 1870 the production had increased 

 to 8,200 casks of spirits of turpentine and 53,175 barrels of rosin, valued at $280,203. In 1873 the 

 receipts in the market of Mobile had fully doubled, amounting to nearly 20,000 casks of spirits of 

 turpentine and to from 75,000 to 100,000 barrels of rosin, besides 1,000 barrels of tar and pitch, 

 of a total value of $750,000. The largest production was reached in 1875, when the receipts reached 

 a value of $1,200,000, up to the present only approximated in 1883 with 43,870 casks of spirits of 

 turpentine and 200,025 barrels of rosin, valued at $1,109,760. Since 1888 a steady decline in the 

 receipts of these products has taken place, due to the exhaustion of the supplies near the commer- 

 cial highways. 



Table of ejrporls of naval stores from Mobile during the period of 18SO-1894. 



Year. 



1878-80. 



l.-.-o SI . 

 l.-SI wj 



1882-83. 

 1883-84. 

 1881-85. 

 1886 s>; 

 1886-87. 



