11. THE LIME HILLS. 103 



Poplar logs and lumber. 



Other hardwood logs of various kinds, exported whole. 



Evergreens for winter decorations. 



Pine lightwood shipped to cities. 



White oak cotton baskets. 



Honey, persimmons, hickory nuts. 



The stage of development of the lumber industry in 

 this region is just about intermediate between that of 

 the hardwood and the long-leaf pine regions, and in 

 many respects pretty close to the average for the whole 

 state. The Southern Lumberman enumerates 76 saw- 

 mills, with an average capacity of 13,900 feet a day, and 

 5 other wood-working establishments. Only about five of 

 the sawmills have tram-roads (aggregating 114 miles in 

 length), but one of these five, at Chapman, Butler Coun- 

 ty, in the flat pine woods area mentioned a few pages 

 back, seems to be the third largest in the state. Over 

 twenty kinds of wood are reported by the sawmills of 

 this region. Sixty-one of them cut long-leaf pine, 52 

 short-leaf (of two or three species), one "spruce" 

 {Piiius fjlahra?), 6 cypress, 8 hickory, 4 beech, 19 

 ''white oak," 11 "red oak," 36 poplar, 2 magnolia, 8 sweet 

 gum, and 6 ash. 



The evergreen industry, which will be described more 

 particularly under the next region, is carried on to a con- 

 siderable extent in Monroe, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Barbour, 

 Henry and perhaps a few other counties, mostly in late 

 fall. 



11. The Lime Hills. 



(Figure 40.) 



This division, covering about 1,300 square miles in 

 Alabama, extends from Conecuh County northwestward 

 into Mississippi. The red lime lands of the central part 

 of Jackson County, Florida, which seem to extend a little 

 way into Houston County, Alabama, are essentially the 

 same kind of country. Farther east there is nothing ex- 

 actly like it. 



References.— Ball, Lyell (77), Smith 6 (62-64, 143-145, 

 148-149, 154-155), Smith 7 (281-285, 500-501, 503-504, 



