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leaf), oak, liickory, poplar, gum, and dogwood in our 

 forests. In original forest, about ten per cent, of 

 the county ; in pine, twenty per cent. — E. G. B. 



Yadkin. (328 sq. miles.) — Huntsville, Sept. 4, 

 1882. — The kinds of timber in our forests are prin- 

 cipally white, black, post, red, and Spanish oak, hick- 

 ory, pine, black and sweet gum, some maple and 

 sycamore, some black walnut, poplar in abundance ; 

 also ash, dogwood, sour-wood, and different varieties 

 of elm. Oak is the prevailing growth. Fifty per 

 cent, of the land is in woods. Worn-out lands are 

 covered with old-field pine. Lands that were worn 

 out thirty years ago, which were grown up in pine, 

 are now growing up in oak, the pines dying out. 

 Plenty of all kinds of timber named in this county 

 for all purposes for which such timber is used. — T. L. 



Long-leaf Pine Supply. — Forestry Bulletin 

 No. 8, from the United States Census Office, gives 

 the amount of merchantable pine — Long-leaved Pine 

 (Pinus Australis) — standing in fifteen counties as 

 follows: 



Bladen, .... 288,000,000 feet 



Brunswick, 

 Chatham, 

 Columbus, . 

 Cumberland, 

 Duplin, 

 Harnett, . 

 Johnston, . 

 Moore, . 



141,000,000 

 448,000,000 

 288,000,000 

 806,000,000 

 21,000,000 

 486,000,000 

 563,000,000 

 504,000,000 



