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riMHER PINES OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES. 



Tubular atntemeni of exportD of lumber from Saraniiah, Darien, Jlruiiswick, and St. Mari/s to fo, 

 and M])ments by railroad to inland markets Jrom li>S3S4 to 1S9.3-04. 



<id domcullc 2>vrts 



This makes a grand total for tbe teu years euded 1894 of 2,836,000,000 feet, board measure, 

 with an aggregate value, at ])i'esent export rates ($11 per 1,000 feet), of at least $31,19{j,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 $95,970, 

 were ijroduced during that year iu 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 fo 108,000 casks of spirits of 

 turpentine and 054,000 barrels of rosin, of a total value of $3,880,000. 



||( of export-! of naval stores from Sar 



the iiearn i5o- 



Valuod .Tt $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 $1.10 per barrel of rosin. 

 On close 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 bnrrel of rosin $1 .90, lowest grades of the latter 

 excluded. 



Florida. — That part of the State between the Suwanee L'iver and tlie Atlantic Coast, as far 

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

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

 been devoted to the cultivation of the citrus fruits. The principal sites of the manufi^cture of 

 lumber in this section of the State are Ellaville, iu jMadison County, on the Suwanee E,iver, 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 Pine is less common and in 

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

 the Saw Palmetto, is stunted 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 Vitw (Pinii.s clau.s(t), and hard woods 

 prevail on the u])laiul hummock lands. 



From the banks of the Suwaiic 

 ^Mississippi this pine belt, varying I'l 



Itiver to the npl 

 11 90 to 125 miles 



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alluvial lands 

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