THE SOUTHERN CYPEESS. 3 



elude the Lumber River and the Wilmington swamps (North Caro- 

 lina), Peedee, Santee, and Salkehatchie Rivers (South Carolina), 

 Okefmokee Swamp and Flint River (Georgia), Suwanee and Apa- 

 lachicola Rivers and parts of the Florida peninsula, and the alluvial 

 flood plain of the Mississippi, at scattering points below the St. 

 Francis Basin in Missouri, but preeminently over the broad, deep 

 swamp area south of Baton Rouge in Louisiana. 



The introduction of larger and more efficient logging machinery- 

 has advanced the logging in any specified region from the water 



I- 1<; 1. Geographical and commercial distribution of cypress in the United States. 



fronts into the deeper and less accessible swamp areas. Thus, the 

 evolul ion iu logging methods chiefly accounts for the continued com- 

 mercial importance of cypress in regions where lumbering was ac- 

 tively in pr< gre - many years ago. 



PRESENT SUPPLY AND ANNUAL CUT. 



STANDING TIMUKK. 



The total present stand of cypress, according to the best available 

 aboul 40,000,000,000 board feet, of which about 1,000,- 

 000,000 fed lire being cut annually. 



