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Van Buren and Trousdale are both small counties, and, 

 though the woodlands attached to the farms are less than 

 50,000 acres in each, yet there are considerable areas of 

 wild lands; and this is especially true of Van Buren. 

 where the yellow pine, black gum, white oak, and red 

 oak are the prevailing arboreal growth. 



In East Tennessee Scott County has a larger area in 

 timber than any other county, going beyond 200,000 

 acres, besides a considerable quantity of wild or mineral 

 lands. In the amount of woodlands attached to farms it 

 stands side by side with Hardin, in West Tennessee, and 

 with Hickman and Wayne, in Middle Tennessee. 



The next group composed of Johnson, Greene, Sevier, 

 Monroe, and Campbell has between 150,000 and 200,000 

 acres each attached to farms, and possibly as much wild 

 land not reported by the census. Morgan, Roane, Mc- 

 Minn, Blount, Knox, Claiborne, Hawkins, Cocke, and Sul- 

 livan Counties have between 150,000 and 200,000 acres of 

 woodlands reported in the eleventh census, besides an 

 undetermined quantity of wild and mineral lands cov- 

 ered for the most part by forests. 



All the remaining counties in East Tennessee have 

 each attached to the farms between 50,000 and 100,000 

 acres of woodlands, with the exception of the small 

 county of Hamblen, which has less than 50,000 acres of 

 timbered lands. 



The most valuable timber treee in East Tennessee are 

 the poplar, pine, chestnut, and the oaks. The county of 

 Scott has a large supply of poplar and oak; Morgan, 

 Carter, Washington, Greene, Cocke, and Sevier, of white 

 oak, white and yellow pine, poplar, red oak, and hem- 

 lock; and Johnson, cf chestnut and hemlock. There is 

 also a large amount of good timber in Sullivan, Hawkins, 

 Hancock, Claiborne, and Campbell, consisting of nearly 

 all the varieties of timber trees found in the state. 



The rapid increase in the consumption of timber in the 

 state of Tennessee may be inferred from the following 

 figures, taken from the census returns of lumber-mills 

 and sawmills for the years 1870, 1880, and 1890: In 1870 

 there were 702 sawmills, shingle-mills, and stave-mills, 

 with an invested capital of 51,622,741, employing on an 



