FOREST RESOURCES OF FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. 479 



Jacksonville is tbe principal port of shipment for the eastern part of 

 Florida, and tbe amount of foreign export will be found in tbe statisti- 

 cal part of tbis report. We bave no means at band for sbowing tbo 

 coastwise export. 



Fensacola is a principal point of shipment for Western Florida, tbe 

 lumber and timber being chiefly prepared at Perdido Bay, Escambia 

 Bay, Blackwater Eiver, and Chocbowbatcbie Bay. The amount of for- 

 eign exportation is given elsewhere from official statements. England 

 and other European countries receive most of the timber, while New 

 York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cuba, and South America aflford a market 

 for tbe lumber. In 1871 the total export from Pensacola amounted to 

 4,003,327 cubic feet of hewn timber and 1,057,'155 feet o'f sawn lumber. 

 In 1872 it amounted to 5,790,072 cubic feet of timber, and 45,753,574 

 feet of lumber. There were then 220 vessels employed in the trade, 

 with an aggregate tonnage of 62,800. Besides this, several schooners 

 were employed in tbe lumber-trade with New Orleans and Texas, that 

 were not included in these totals. There were 34 saw-mills tributary to 

 Pensacola. 



During the year ending July 1, 1877, 270 foreign, 110 American, and 

 210 coasting vessels, having a total tonnage of 295,569 and an aggre- 

 gate of 7,500 men as crews, arrived at the port of Pensacola. The value 

 of exports was $2,291,822, mainly lumber and timber. On the line of 

 the Pensacola Eailroad are four saw-mills, with a cutting capacity of over 

 60,000,000 of feet annually. At Mill View, connected witb Pensacola 

 by the Pensacola and Perdido Eailroad, are six mills, witb a capacity 

 of 65,000,000 of feet. 



Large amounts of hewn and sawn timber are also floated down the 

 tributary streams to the booms adjacent to the docks, where heavy 

 timber is loaded into vessels, or on the cars by steam derricks^ 



GEORGIA. 



By an agreement made April 24, 1802, between the State of Georgia 

 and tbe United States, the lands west of a line described, were released 

 to the general government, and those east of the line were confirmed to 

 Georgia. The public lands of that State are therefore held under State 

 laws, and about forty years ago were mostly disposed of by lottery, so 

 that the principal part now belongs to private owners. 



A Department of Agriculture has been for several years in operation, 

 and forestry is, by tbe terms of tbe law made incidentally a subject of 

 inquiry. It has, however, been chiefly matters pertaining strictly to 

 agriculture. It has issued a Hand-book of general information and numer- 

 ous circulars and special reports. We insert from the Hand-book a list of 

 tbe woody species, so far as known. The vegetation of the State may 

 be described in belts, each characterized by its peculiar flora. The sea- 

 coast belt has tbe palmetto, live oak, American olive, magnolias, and 

 other species common with the lowlands of tbo coast. Further inland 

 is a broad belt of pines {Plnus aiistralis, and other species), and in the 

 mountains a flora not mucb differing from that of Western North Caro- 

 lina already described. 



^Lumberman's Gazette, March 9, 1878, p. 204. 



