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clearings. About 20% of the sawmills and 15 7o of the 

 other wood-working industries of the state are located in 

 this region, which has only 9.8% of the total area. The 

 Southern Lumberman enumerates 120 mills, with an av- 

 erage capacity of 15,000 feet a day. Nine of these mills 

 operate tram-roads, with an aggregate length of 57 miles. 

 Fifty-five of them report long-leaf pine and three white 

 pine, but these figures must be exaggerated, for several 

 of the mills reporting long-leaf pine are located in coun- 

 ties where that species is unknown, and none of the trees 

 which might pass for white pine are known to grow in 

 this region at all. Of course some of these two woods 

 may be imported, but that does not seem reasonable in a 

 region so abundantly supplied with timber. Ninety- 

 eight mills cut short-leaf pine, 6 cypress, 16 hickory, 6 

 beech, 51 white oak (etc.), 41 red oak (etc.), 2 elm, 67 

 poplar, 30 sweet gum, 10 tupelo gum, and 3 ash. Those 

 mills which cut 25,000 feet or more in a day are usually 

 provided with a waste-burner, a device very rarely seen 

 in the hill country. Only six cut as much as 50,000 feet 

 a day, and two or three of those get part of their timber 

 from other regions. The principal forest products seem 

 to be as follows : 



Short-leaf and long-leaf pine lumber. 



Post oak and pine cross-ties. 



Sash, doors, blinds. 



Cooperage stock. 



White oak baskets and chair-bottoms. 



Sweet gum and black gum columns. 



Chestnut and cypress poles. 



Pine and poplar shingles. 



Charcoal. 



Honey. 



