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tions. By this it is not meant that production will cease in any given 

 region within the time indicated on the map, but that after the lapse 

 of such time it is probable that the turpentine operator will have to 

 make use of second-growth timber and that left by the lumberman. 

 Under these conditions the production will amount to but a fraction 

 of the present production. This prediction is based on the supply of 



^JBlife 



* ) i 



IN I 



longleaf, and does not take into account the possibility of utilizing 

 loblolly and shortleaf pine as a source of naval stores. 



Figure 9 * indicates the percentage of the original longleaf pine 

 that still remained standing "round" in 1909. The data are not 



1 Taken from unpublished report, "Investigation of the Naval Stores Industry," by A. L. Brower and 

 J. D. La Fontissee (1909). 



