8. CHUNNENNUGGEE RIDGE. 91 



products, such as post oak cross-ties, white oak cotton- 

 baskets, cooperage stock, spokes and handles, cedar 

 posts, and more highly elaborated articles like sash, 

 doors, blinds and wagons. 



Having the smallest proportion of woodland it is not 

 surprising that this region should also have the fewest 

 sawmills per square mile and per inhabitant. The South- 

 ern Lumberman's directory previously referred to enu- 

 merates 22 mills, with an average capacity of 13,400 feet 

 a day, and 6 other wood-working establishments. The 

 largest mills, one of which has a daily capacity of 40,000 

 feet, are located on navigable rivers, and doubtless ob- 

 tain much of their timber from more densely wooded re- 

 gions farther inland ; so that if this outside timber could 

 be eliminated from the statistics the output of the saw- 

 mills would show up much smaller. Only one tram-road 

 is reported from the region, and that is only two miles 

 long, with 35-pound rails. 



Nine of the mills cut long-leaf pine, 19 short-leaf, one 

 "white pine" (Piirtis glabra f), 5 cypress, 5 hickory, 5 

 Cottonwood, 2 beech, 12 white oak (etc.?), 12 red oak 

 (etc.), 3 hackberry, 10 poplar, 10 sweet gum, 2 syca- 

 more, 4 tupelo gum, and 6 ash. 



8. Chunnennuggee Ridge or Blue Marl Region. 



Going southward from the black belt, particularly in 

 Bullock, Montgomery and Lowndes Counties, one as- 

 cends an escarpment sometimes 100 feet or more in 

 height (called Chunnennuggee* Ridge at Union Springs, 

 where it is perhaps most conspicuous), and enters a re- 

 gion of different aspect, extending all the way from 

 Georgia to Mississippi (and with some interruptions to 

 West Tennessee), and covering about 2,300 square miles 

 in Alabama. 



References.— Smith 6 (56, 58-61, 132, 135-142), Smith 

 7 (267-268, 273-278, 487-498), Smith 8 (352-356 and nu- 



*Also spelled Chunnennugga and Chunnenugga, but the form 

 given above seems to be preferred locally. It is easy to imagine 

 how the others may have originated as typographical errors. 



