APPENDIX D. 



Statistics Illustrating Present Condition of the Forests, 

 Rate of Exploitation, etc., by Regions. 



THE subjoined table is compiled mainly from the 

 Southern Lumberman's 1912 directory of Alabama 

 sawmills, described on page 32. It is somewhat similar 

 to one published in the Southern Lumberman for April 

 5, 1913 (Harper 8 in bibliography), but goes into a little 

 more detail in the treatment of geographical divisions, 

 and differs in a few other ways. In order to minimize er- 

 rors due to the possible incompleteness of the directory, 

 or to the inaccuracy of the writer's computations, no ab- 

 solute figures are given, except for areas, which are eas- 

 ily verified. Everything else except the density of 

 population and capacity of the sawmills is expressed in 

 percentages, the accuracy of which is not affected so 

 much by incompleteness of the data. Regions less than 

 800 square miles in extent, and containing less than ten 

 reported sawmills, are omitted from this table, because 

 a small error in the absolute figures for them would 

 make too much difference in the relative figures. 



The table is divided by a double vertical line into two 

 parts, of five columns each, besides the names of the re- 

 gions. The first column of figures gives the areas, in 

 square miles, and the second the estimated percentage 

 of woodland at the present time. The third gives the 

 density of population according to the census of 1910 

 (making some allowance for our three largest cities), 

 and the fourth the percentage of increase of population 

 from 1900 to 1910. The fifth column gives the average 

 daily capacity, in thousand feet board-measure, of the 

 sawmills enumerated by the Southern Lumberman. 



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