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1882. — The timbers of our forests are : Pine, long 

 and short leaf, oak, hickory, dogwood, maple, ash, 

 poplar, and walnut. Long-leaf pine, oak, hickory, 

 and dogwood prevail. The wooded acreage is 250,000, 

 of which the long-leaf pine occupies about 80,000, 

 the rest being taken up by oak, hickory, and dog- 

 wood, with the other minor kinds mentioned. — C. 



c. w. 



Madison. (450 sq. miles.) — Marshall, Aug. 25, 

 1882. — The kinds of timber are poplar, white oak, 

 white pine, hickory, ash, walnut, and some red oak 

 and yellow pine. The prevailing growths are hick- 

 ory, poplar, white oak, and ash. The wooded acre- 

 age is about 80 per cent., and the acreage as covered 

 by the prevailing growth about 75 per cent. In the 

 mountains you find many parts covered w^ith buck- 

 eye, linn; beech, dogwood, and cherry. The Avalnut 

 and cherry are being cut very fast and sliipped to 

 eastern markets. — W. W. R. 



Macon, Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Hayavood, 

 Jackson, Swain. (3,910 sq. miles.) — Franklin, Aug. 

 26, 1882. — I give statement of timbers growing in IVIa- 

 con County. Black oak, Spanish oak, white oak, post 

 oak, chestnut oak, water or shingle oak ; chestnut, 

 hickory (both red and white), poplar, linn, ash (both 

 black and white), cucumber (two varieties), maple, 

 black and white walnut, cherry, spruce pine or hem- 

 lock, common black pine, white pine, black jack, 

 sycamore, birch, holly, Peruvian tree, dogwood, sour- 

 wood, persimmon, sarvis, black locust, yellow locust, 



