46 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA. 



Spokes, handles, hubs. 



Wagons, furniture. 



Columns and pump-logs. 



Shingles. 



Boats. 



Shuttles. 



Hickory fiber for street brooms. 



Locust pins. 



Sporting goods. 



Charcoal (less now than formerly). 



Butter trays. 



Walnuts and hickory nuts. 



Medicine from barks, roots, etc. 



Sassafras oil. 



The Southern Lumberman's directory Hsts 48 sawmills 

 from this region, with an average capacitj^ of 9,250 feet 

 a day, and 19 other wood-working establishments. This 

 is a larger number of mills in proportion to the remain- 

 ing area of fores than any other region has. The two 

 largest mills in the region have a daily capacity of 30,000 

 feet each. One of these, at Falkville, operates 614 miles 

 of tram-road, or logging railroad. 



These mills cut a greater variety of timber than those 

 of any other division of the state, too. Five of them 

 claim to cut long-leaf pine and two white pine, but the 

 supposed long-leaf pine is probably mostly Piuia-; Taeda 

 and the white perhaps P. Vir(/iiu<ni<i. Eighteen mills 

 cut short-leaf pine, 9 cedar, 7 walnut, 24 hickory, 2 birch, 

 13 beech, 9 chestnut, 38 white oak, 40 red oak (these 

 names doubtless cover several species of oak, as ex- 

 plained on page 33), 12 elm, 3 hackberry, 3 cucumber 

 (probably obtained from some region farther south), 34 

 poplar, 16 "red" (sweet) gum, 7 sycamore, 5 cherry, 6 

 basswood (lin), 5 maple, 4 tupelo gum, and 23 ash, not 

 to mention several other woods reported by only one mill 

 each. No statistics of the relative amount of each of 

 these woods cut in the region are available, but for most 

 of them some figures covering the whole state can be 

 found in Appendix E. 



Pencil-wood mills are located in Jackson County and 

 the eastern part of Madison, where the cedar seems most 

 abundant at present, and at Decatur, and much of their 

 product is shipped to England and Germany for the use 

 of the well-known pencil-makers there. A news item. 



