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wood cut by farmers and sold in near-by towns would be 

 appropriate to include, if any statistics about it were 

 available, but it is so common and familiar in all regions 

 where there are any woods at all that it hardly needs to 

 be considerod. 



Unfortunately no accurate quantitative estimates of 

 the forest products of each region can be made from the 

 information at present available. Some publications of 

 the U. S. Forest Service and Census Bureau give valuable 

 statistics for the whole state, which have been utilized 

 in Appendix E, but they are of no value for regional de- 

 scriptions, for they do not consider counties or other 

 geographical subdivisions of the state. The paper of 

 Harris and Maxwell on the wood-using industries of Ala- 

 bama, cited in the bibliography, likewise treats the state 

 as a unit for statistical purposes, but it also contains a 

 list of over 200 wood-working establishments of higher 

 rank than sawmills, with the location of each, from 

 which a rough calculation of the relative number of such 

 establishments in each region can be made. 



Still more useful is a directory of the sawmills and 

 other wood-working establishments of Alabama, pub- 

 lished in the latter part of 1912 by the Southern Lum- 

 heniiaii, a weekly magazine of Nashville, Tenn. This 

 lists about 600 sawmills and 100 other establishments, 

 and is probably nearly complete for all mills large enough 

 to ship their products by rail or water. It gives no sta- 

 tistics of production, but tells almost everything else 

 that one might wish to know about our sawmills, includ- 

 ing the name and location of each, the character of its 

 equipment (including length of railroad operated, if 

 any), the kind of stock turned out (i. e., whether ordi- 

 nary lumber or veneers, crates, cooperage stock, han- 

 dles, vehicles, furniture, etc.), the daily capacity, and the 

 kinds of wood used. From this directory it is a simple 

 matter to count the number of mills sawing each kind 

 of wood in each region, and compute their average ca- 

 pacity. In summing up the information derived from 

 this source in the regional descriptions those kinds of 

 wood cut by only one mill in a region are usually omitted 

 for the sake of brevity. With this exception the num- 



