FOREST RESOURCES OF EASTERN TEXAS. 5 



Culled and cut-over lands are those logged either long ago or recently 

 and where the merchantable material consists of trees which were in the 

 original stand and left from former logging operations. Reproduction 

 and young unmerchantable growth may or may not be present. 



All other lands consist of improved and unimproved areas which are 

 not timbered. Approximately 73 per cent of the area in this class is 

 improved land within farms, while the balance consists of pasture, waste, 

 and overflow lands. The area of improved lands in the region covered 

 has increased 20.8 per cent since the census of 1910, according to the 



Map 2. Areas Within Which the Main Bodies of Virgin Timber 



(Mostly Yellow Pine) Are Located. 



(Dots indicate approximate locations of sawmills cutting 10 million feet or 

 more annually.) 



figures obtained in each county. The increase from 1900 to 1910, ac- 

 cording to the census, was 22.7 per cent. 



Assuming for purposes of computation that virgin timber lands average 

 9,000 board feet per acre, second growth lands average 1,500 feet, and 

 culled and cut-over lands average 3,500 feet, the total standing timber 

 in the forty East Texas counties would be about 56 billion board feet. In 

 1911 the Government* estimated the standing timber in the forty-eight 

 most eastern counties to be 66 billion feet. About ten billion feet of timber 

 have been cut since the Government investigation was made, as against 



*The Lumber Industry Part I Bureau of Corporations, U. S. Department of 

 Commerce ana" Labor, Washington, D. C., 1913. 



