NOTES. 425 



A very full account of the industry as far as its relation 

 to forest supplies is concerned may be found in "Reports 

 on Forestry" by F. B. Hough, Vol. Ill, 1882, pp. 68 

 to 128. 



P. 29. The Naval Store Industry. — The naval store in- 

 dustry is confined to the pineries of the South, — Alabama, 

 Florida, and Georgia being the principal producers. It 

 supplies mainly materials used for the manufacture of var- 

 nishes, paints, soaps, and in the rubber and paper industries, 

 besides tar and pitch, and has grown most unprecedentedly 

 during the last decade. While from 1850 to 1890 the increase 

 of value in products was only from less than $3,000,000 to 

 a little less than $8,000,000, in the decade from 1890 to 1900 

 it rose, according to the census, to $20,344,888. The capital 

 employed and the wages paid trebled, while the value more 

 than doubled. This great increase may be only apparent, the 

 difficulty of gathering statistics in previous censuses having 

 produced too low figures ; nevertheless, increase in industrial 

 development must account for a large part of the increase. 

 Nearly all the rosin produced and nearly one-half of the spirits 

 of turpentine are exported. 



Through the investigations of the Forestry Division in 1890 

 to 1892 (see Report of Division of Forestry for 1892 for full 

 description of this industry) it was established that this in- 

 dustry can be carried on without any necessary detriment to 

 the forest and the timber product, but unfortunately the 

 necessary precautions and methods for such harmless use of 

 these by-products are mostly not practised. 



P. 32. Relative Position of Forest Industries in 1890. — 

 Census statistics of the employment of capital, persons em- 

 ployed, and wages in the minor forest industries are either 

 absent or more or less deficient. Moreover, in an industry in 

 which many people are only temporarily or incidentally and 

 for a part of the year engaged, the exploitation of the forests 

 makes a close enumeration well nigh impossible. Hence, in 

 comparison with other industries concentrated at centres of 



