SHORTLEAF PINE : IMPORTANCE AND MANAGEMENT. 3 



Table 1. — Standing timber of southern yellow pine in 1909 for 11 Southern 



States. 



[Publicly owned timber not included.] ' 





Shortleaf and loblolly pine. 



Longleaf. 





State. 



Quantity. 



Distri- 

 bution. 



Quantity. 



Distri- 

 bution. 



Total quantity. 





Board feet. 

 12,400,000,000 

 26,000,000,000 

 900,000,000 

 13,200,000,000 

 15,200,000,000 

 14,800,000,000 



1,100,000,000 

 22,700,000,000 

 14,600,000,000 

 22, 500, 000, 000 



8,700,000,000 



Per cent. 



8.2 



17.1 



.6 



8.7 



10.0 



9.7 



.7 



14.9 



9.6 



14.8 



5.7 



Board feet. 

 25,600,000,000 



Per cent. 

 11.0 



Board feet. 

 38, 000, 000, 000 





2 26, 000, 000, 000 





58,266,666,666 



18,500,000,000 

 52,500,000,000 

 47,600,000,000 



25.1 



8.0 



22.6 



20.5 



59, 100, 000, 000 





31,700,000,000 





67, 700, 000, 000 





62, 400, 000, 000 





1,100,000,000 



North Carolina Cpart) 



South Carolina (part) 



Texas 



2,900,000,000 



4,600,000,000 



22,400,000,000 



1.2 



2.0 

 9.6 



25,600,000,000 

 19,200,000,000 

 44,900,000,000 





81,700,000,000 











Total 



152,100,000,000 



100.0 



232,300,000,000 



100.0 



384, 400, 000, 000 







1 Bureau of Corporations, The Lumber Industry, Part I, p. 76. 



2 In 1SS0, Sargent estimated merchantable stand of shortleaf in Arkansas at 41,000,000,000 feet, Tenth 

 U. S. Census. 



True shortleaf pine occurs in eight States besides those represented 

 in the table, though in relatively smaller quantity. There are no 

 accurate figures available of the relative proportion of loblolly and 

 shortleaf. The best available estimate, based upon the distribution 

 and the lumber production, places the amount of standing shortleaf 

 at about 55 per cent of the combined amount of both species. On 

 this basis there were in 1909 about 83,700,000,000 board feet in the 

 States shown in Table 1. The report of the Bureau of Corporations 

 for the same year showed that 4.1 per cent of the southern yellow 

 pine was being cut annually. 1 This gives for the major part of the 

 11 most important States a remaining stand in 1913 of about 73,- 

 400,000,000 feet. To this must be added (1) the stand of shortleaf 

 in the other eight States and the parts of Virginia, North Carolina, 

 South Carolina, and Georgia not included in the above computa- 

 tion, (2) National Forest timber in Arkansas, and (3) the total 

 increment or growth during the period, which may conservatively 

 be placed at 1 per cent annually, after allowing for loss by fire and 

 other causes. This gives a total of 80 billion board feet (Table 2), 

 which is believed to be a conservative estimate of the present short- 

 leaf-pine supply. 



1 There Is reason to believe, however, that hoth longleaf and loblolly have been cut at a 

 faster rate than shortleaf, because of their location over lowlands near the coast. 



