520 



THE FORESTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



The foUowiog is an estimate of the amount of pine timber standing in the state May 31, 1880 : 



LONG-LEAVED PINE (Piniu palustrU). 



Coiuiti. 



AppUac ... 



Bdier 



BaUwla... 

 Berrien 



Bibb 



Brooka 



Bryan 



Bnllooh 



Barke 



Calboon . . . 



Camden 



Charlton... 



Clay 



Clinch 



ColTee 



Colquitt ... 

 Crawford.. 

 Decator 



Dodge 



Dooly 



Dougherty. 



Barly 



Echols 



Effingham .. 

 Emannel 



Feet,boMd 

 meaann. 



Cut for the censas year 

 leaved pine and mixed 



543, 000, 000 

 IM, 000, 000 



85,000,000 

 410, 000, 000 



38, 000, 000 

 281, 000, 000 



60, 000. 000 

 733, 000, 000 

 208,000,000 

 117, 000, 000 



82, 000, 000 

 246, 000, 000 



96, 000, 000 

 330, 000, 000 

 678, 000, 000 

 339, 000,000 



45, 000, 000 

 653, 000, 000 

 417, 000, 000 

 334, 000, 000 



90, 000, 000 



299, 000, 000 



183, 000, 000 



6, 000, 000 



956, 000, 000 



ending May 

 growth). 



Conntiea. 



Floyd........... 



Glaaoook 



Glynn 



Hanooek 



Haralson 



Harris 



Houston 



Irwin 



Jefferson 



Johnson 



Jones 



Laurens 



Lee 



Liberty 



Lowmdes 



UcUuffie 



Mcintosh 



Macon 



Miller 



Mitchell 



Monroe 



Montgomery 



Muscogee 



Paulding 



Pierce 



31, 18f0 (excluding 28, 



Feet, board 

 measure. 



19, 000, 000 



17, 000, 000 



47, 000, 000 



76,000,000 



21, 000, 000 



22,000,000 



191,000,000 



488, 000, 000 



206, 000, 000 



291, OOO, 000 



40,000,000 



1, 064, 000, 000 



128, 000, 000 



236, 000, 000 



236, 000, 000 



10, 000, 000 



65, OOO, 000 



62,000,000 



164, 000, 000 



379, 000, 000 



18, 000, 000 



791, 000, 000 



35, 000. 000 



2, 000, 000 



220, 000, 00* 



335,000 feet cut 



Counties. 



Polk 



Pulaski 



Bandolph 



Kichmond . . . 



Schley 



Screven 



Sumter 



Talbot 



Tattnall 



Taylor 



Telfair 



Terrell 



Thomas 



Twiggs 



TTpson 



Ware 



Warren 



Washington . 



Wayne 



Webster 



Wilcox 



Wilkinson... 

 Worth 



Total. 



in the region of short. 



Feet, board 

 measure. 



36, 

 408, 

 126, 



21, 



28, 

 188, 

 191, 



44, 

 768, 



53, 

 598, 

 104, 

 3)1, 



84, 



32, 

 161, 



80, 

 240, 

 180, 



48, 

 292, 

 152, 

 512, 



000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 



000,000 



000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 

 000,000 



16,778,000,000 



272, 743, 000 



The principal centers of lumber manufacture are situated along the coast at Brunswick, Darien, Savannah, and 

 Saint Mary's. Logs sawed at these points are now driven down the various streams for a considerable distance from 

 the coast. Large quantities of pine lumber are also manufactured in different mills located along the lines of 

 railroad in Appling, Polk, Floyd, and other pine counties. Savannah and Brunswick are the principal points of 

 'istribution of the naval stores manufactured in the state. 



FLORIDA. 



The forests of the Southern Pine Belt cover the state as far south as cape Malabar and Charlotte harbor. The 

 long-leaved pine is replaced along thejsandy dunes and islands of the coast by oaks (of which the live oak is alone 

 of commercial importance), scrub pines, and palmettos^ while ajdeciduous forest, largely of northern composition, 

 occupies the high, rolling lands in a large part of Gadsden, Leon, Jefferson, and Madison counties; The pine 

 forests gradually decrease southward in density and value, and south of latitude 29 N. are of little present 

 commercial value. Forests of pitch pine (Pinus Gubensis), however, extend far south of the region occupied by the 

 more valuable long-leaved pine bordering the coast and covering the low ridges of the Everglades. Great areas of 

 swamp occur everywhere through northern and central Florida, covered with forests of cypress, red cedar, gum, and 

 bordered with bays, magnolias, and other broad-leaved evergreens ; while the hummocks or low elevations, covered 

 with rich soil and everywhere common, bear oaks and other deciduous trees, often of great size. 



South of cape Malabar and Tampa bay the character of the vegetation changes, and the North American 

 arborescent species are replaced by the semi-tropical trees of the West Indies. These occupy a narrow strip along 

 the coast, cover the keys and reefs, and spread over some of the hummocks of the Everglades. This semi-tropical 

 forest is confined to the saline shores of the innumerable bays and creeks of the region, or to the coral and sedimentary 

 calcareous formation of the keys and hummocks. The species of which it is composed are here at the northern 

 limits of their range ; individual trees are comparatively small and the forests of the southern extremity of the 

 Florida peninsula are commercially unimportant, although sufiiciently extensive and varied to supply the scanty 

 population of this region with lumber, fuel, and material for boat-building and the manufacture of fishing apparatus. 



The forests of Florida have not suffered greatly from fire. Much of the state is uninhabited and unfit for 

 agriculture or grazing. The danger, therefore, of fires set in clearing land for farms spreading to the forest is less 

 than in other parts of the south, while the numerous streams and swamps everywhere intersecting the pine forest* 

 and the natural dryness of the sandy ridges, thinly covered with vegetable mold, check the spread of fires 

 when started. 



During the census year 105,320 acres of woodland were reported as burned over, with an estimated loss of 

 $09,900. The largest number of these fires was set by gmzers to improve the pasturage for their stock. 



