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the various species of oak are foiiiid other valuable 

 woods — Avaliiut, hickory and dogwood, etc., in abun- 

 dance. A company from Baltimore are making ar- 

 rangements to ship large quantities of the two latter 

 woods this season. 



^'•Midland Section, — This portion of the tract in- 

 cludes the upper part of Randolph and Chatham, a 

 large part of Guilford and Forsyth, Stokes, Yadkin, 

 Surry, Wilkes and Caldwell — a region of nearly as 

 great extent, and of more varied and abundant re- 

 sources, than some entire States. It contains wide 

 stretches of the finest forests in their primeval state. 

 They abound, in extraordinary richness, along the 

 streams in the southern part of Guilford and along 

 many of the intervening ridges, and on the upper 

 waters of Haw River in the western and northern 

 portions of the county ; and again on the head 

 streams of the Dan, on the flanks of the Sauratown 

 Mountains, and in the vallej'S of the Yadkin and its 

 numerous tributaries that come down from the slopes 

 of the Blue Ridge. These will furnish immense 

 quantities of white oak, and other species of oak, 

 hickory, walnut, poplar, while the uplands and ridges 

 and the spurs of the mountains abound in hickory, 

 dogwood, yellow pine, chestnut and black locust. 

 And above Patterson there are large forests of white 

 pine. 



'"'' Mountain Section. — The timber produrts of this 

 section are also of immense extent. The largest and 

 finest cherry and walnut timber grows in these moun- 



