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under my control — 8,000 acres, divided into three 

 distinct farms. One-fourtli is cleared ; three-fourths 

 in woods. Of the wood, one-half, perhaps three- 

 fourths, is pine. — J. H. S. 



Polk. (300 sq. miles.) — Lynn, Aug. 28, 1882.— 

 Polk County is rich in timber. Her lands on the 

 south side of the mountains are very fine. On all 

 low and flat lands, native short-leaf pine predomi- 

 nates; some oak and hickory. On the mountain 

 sides we have fine walnut, ash, chestnut, poplar, 

 maple, locust, buckeye. One-half of the county is 

 mountain or fine kinds of wood. One fourth of the 

 land in Polk is cut off and cleared. — D. B. M. 



Randolph. (728 sq. miles.) — Ashboro, Sept. 12, 

 1882. — Kinds of timber are oak, pine, hickory, dog- 

 wood, cedar, maple, gum, walnut, ash. The prevail- 

 ing growth is oak and short-leaf pine. Wooded acre- 

 age, two-thirds of the county. About five-sixths of 

 the wooded acreage is covered by oak and pine in 

 very nearly equal proportions. The northern part of 

 the county is chiefly oak, and in the southern part 

 pine prevails. — J. A. B. 



Richmond. (875 sq. miles.) — Rockingham, Aug. 

 25, 1882. — I estimate the area, in acres, as 500,000. 

 Of this, probably 160,000 are devoted to agriculture. 

 Nine-tenths of the original growth was long-leafed 

 pine. Indeed all the county, except a narrow strip 

 on the Pee Dee — in all not over sixty square miles — 

 was of that species. In that small territory, and in 

 the immediate vicinity of the streams which flow into 



