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leaf pine, botli yellow and pitch pine. In our swamps 

 (of which w^e have a considerable quantity) black 

 gum and cypress prevail, with some oak and ash. 

 The large timber accessible to the navigable streams 

 and railroads has been cut off, but there is still a 

 very large amount of timber suitable for lumber all 

 over the county. There are many large areas of large 

 pine timber remote from the streams and railroads 

 yet untouched, that will, when we have railroad fa- 

 cilities, afford an immense amount of timber and 

 lumber.— M. M. 



Rutherford. (475 square miles.) — Island Ford, 

 Sept. 11, 1882. — We have in this county white oak, 

 red oak, black oak, post oak, live oak, chestnut oak, 

 in fact nearly all the oaks ; two kinds of hickory — 

 white and the common hickory, black walnut, short- 

 leaf or yellow pine and (as fine as you ever saw and a 

 plenty of it) hemlock near the mountains, poplar, ash, 

 birch, beech, locust. About three-fourths of the 

 acreage of the county is in timber yet. — J. L. M. 



Sampson. (850 sq. miles.) — Clinton, Oct. 20, 

 1882. — The kinds of timber are long and short-leaf 

 pine; water, red, Spanish, white, black-jack oaks; 

 hickory, poplar, gum — sweet and black, dogwood, 

 persimmon, cedar, elm, juniper, cypress, walnut. The 

 prevailing growth is long-leaf pine. The wooded 

 acreage about 65 per cent., and about the same per 

 cent, of that covered by long-leaf pine. — E. T. B. 



Surry. (500 sq. miles.) Elkin, Sept. 11, 1882. 

 The prevailing growth is white, red, black, Spanish 



