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diversified except in the southern part of the county, 

 where the yellow pine prevails. In order to give 

 you an approximate idea of the location of these 

 forests, I will say that in the southern part of the 

 county there is an area of yellow pine covering 

 65,000 acres. In the central part of the county, from 

 west to east, is the oak, hickory, chestnut, etc., em- 

 bracing about 102,000 acres. * 



North of this, toward the top bf the Blue Ridge, 

 comes in all the white pine, walnut, cherry, etc., that 

 we have ; and I suppose we might say that here the 

 white pine was the prevailing growth, covering at a 

 rough estimate 122,000 acres. 



So that we have a total wooded area as follows : 



Yellow pine, 65,000 acres 



Oak, hickory, etc., • - • 102,000 " 

 White pine, 122,000 " 



Total forest area, .... 289,000 acres 

 What has been said of Caldwell applies equally, 

 except perhaps as to geographical location of the 

 forests, to the counties of Wilkes, Alleghany, Ashe, 

 Watauga, Mitchell, Yancey, and Burke, except that 

 in Caldwell alone will you find au}^ considerable 

 quantity of yellow pine, and in all the others men- 

 tioned, except Wilkes and Burke, there is more 

 white pine than we have. Outside of these north- 

 western counties above mentioned you will find no 

 white pine in North Carolina worth mentioning. 

 There is also more clierr}', walnut, and ash in 



