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The Dawn of a New Constructive Era 



Wide Scope 

 of Southern 

 Pine Associa- 

 tion's Activi- 

 ties 



The Charac- 

 ter of Unim- 

 proved Lands 



Alabama's 

 Uncultivated 

 Millions of 

 Acres 



was left out ; and in Mississippi the level plain and the northern 

 part. 



These round dots show the location of the saw mills of the 

 Southern Pine Association, compiled from a list sent me by Mr. 

 Moore. I had a draftsman take the list and locate the mills on the 

 maps. Since this is a discussion of the Southern Pine Association 

 lands, you will notice that the areas which we discussed are the 

 areas that include all of the saw mills, with the exception of two in 

 the mountains of Alabama. 



The maps already shown were compiled from census data and 

 does not undertake to show details. After that had been compiled 

 then the question of the details of these different areas, details con- 

 cerning the character of unimproved lands, was raised, and how 

 such information could be displayed. The Soil Survey reports, so 

 far as published, give details concerning the character, distribution 

 and acreage of the various soils. For example, taking the report 

 of this county, I can say, there are 967 acres of Orangeburg sandy 

 loam in that county. The Soil Survey reports will show us, with 

 great accuracy, the acreage of each soil type in the county surveyed. 

 When a soil survey of a county is completed we have the data avail- 

 able in great detail. The reports will state further the approximate 

 percentage of any given soil remaining unimproved at the time the 

 survey was made. That, of course, is an estimate, but is based 

 upon the study of the man who went over the ground and saw 

 every 40 or 10 acres of it. In fact, the Soil Survey man is sup- 

 posed to see every foot of the ground. He does see the land so 

 that he can form a very close estimate as to how much is cultivated 

 and how much uncultivated. I took the survey reports therefore 

 and compiled the data that they show, and that is shown in these 

 charts I have here. I will begin with Alabama, the legend is placed 

 up there. 



In Alabama nearly every county has been surveyed in detail, 

 so that we have definite data for every county except three. These 

 are the counties of the coastal plain of Alabama, with the exception 

 of two or three. The bars on the chart represent, by their length, 

 the total acreage of unimproved land in each county, and these 

 figures up here represent the number of acres in figures. The 

 vertical red lines across all the bars cut them up into lengths of 

 100,000 acres each. You can see, therefore, that Baldwin county, 

 for example, has 960,000 acres of land which is unimproved. Here 

 in Lee County, for example, there is only 100,000 acres unimproved. 



