254 THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN FOEESTS. 



Demand. One dollar per thousand feet is paid for poplar, ash, cherry, 

 cucumber, and the best of the oak. 



Accessibility. A wagon road leads from Tallulah Falls via Burton to 

 Hiwassee through this valley. The slopes are not specially difficult for logging. 



Cutting. There is nothing being marketed at present, except a very little 

 bark. Much of the best log timber has been taken out for local use. 



Fire. Repeated light fires have run everywhere, killing many of the timber 

 trees, scarring many others, and reducing the undergrowth to strips or clumps in 

 the ravines. 



Reproduction. Abundant, except where affected by tires and grazing. 



Second grcnvth. There are numerous saplings, except on the drier ridges. 



Undergroit^th. On the ridges and slopes there is some hazel and huckleberry, 

 besides seedlings of timber trees, while in the ravines are many patches and 

 strips of laurel. 



Rate of groivth. Not observed. 



Water poicer. At the mouth this stream was 25 feet wide and a foot deep, 

 with moderate current about the middle of October, 1900. 



Ownership. The holdings are almost entirely by residents of the vicinity. 



Prices of land. The best of the timber land is valued at $50 per acre; the 

 mountain lands at about %1 per acre. 



MOCCASIN CREEK BASIN (rABUN COUNTY, GA.). 



Area. Total, 9 square miles; cleared, 1.24 square miles; wooded, 7.76 square 

 miles. 



Surface.' The lowlands are undulating to hilly. The mountain slopes rather 

 steep. 



Soil. About 1 square mile of alluvial land is fertile. The remainder is 

 rather light, but the forest growing on it is vigorous. 



Hximus. Humus is abundant in the ravines and coves, but on the ridges 

 there is very little. 



Agricidtural value. About 2 square miles are better adapted to agriculture 

 than to timber. Corn, hay, and the fruits do well here. 



Timber trees. The forest is composed of oaks, 75 per cent; pine, -t per cent; 

 hemlock, 2 per cent; hickory, 3 per cent; maple, 5 per cent; gum, 5 per cent; 

 cucumber, 2 per cent; and others, 4 per cent. 



Yield. hog timber, 9,873 M feet B. M.; small wood, 60,000 cords. 



Demand. Owing to the distance from market there is only a local demand 

 for timber. 



