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TIMBER PINES OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES. 



lumber is carried ou extensively, tlie output goiug to Xortbern markets, Miicli of tlie heavy bewu 

 timber that is exported from Mobile and Peusacola 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 2.5 points reported from amounted in the 

 aggregate to about 7C8,00:i feet, or to 192,000,000 feet, board measure, for the year. This iigure can 

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

 at a low estimate, 85,000,000 feet of nmnd timber are to be added, cut iu 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 sipiare 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. 



Sltdemtnt ofcrporlx of siiuare 



iiiiher, h: wii and suwii, and of lumber shipped from Mobile to forei 

 Ike year 1ST9-80 to the end of the year 1S04. 



lid domeslic ports fr 



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 $1,109,700. Since 1J-"8S a steady decline in the 

 receipts of these products has taken place, due to the exhaustion of the supi^lies near the commer- 

 cial highways. 



Table of exports of n aval st oris from Mobile diirimj the period of 1SS0-1S94. 



