16-i FOEESTS OF NORTH CA.KOLINA. 



ber standing in Dare and Hyde counties. The forests of Beau- 

 fort, Washington and Martin counties have, however, been nearly 

 exhausted. In Pitt, Edgecombe, and Green counties exploitation 

 is well advanced in the loblolly pine forests near the railways and 

 water courses, while the greater part of the timber has been 

 removed from Pamlico and Carteret counties. The unlumbered 

 pine lands of Beaufort county lie in the northeastern part of the 

 county ; those of Craven in the southwestern part. Bordering 

 the swamps in Duplin, Onslow and Pender counties are large 

 unlumbered areas of loblolly pine growth, chiefly where this pine 

 has superseded the long-leaf pine ; and in Brunswick, Columbus, 

 Robeson and Bladen counties, along Brown and Green marshes 

 and the flats of Lumber river and its tributaries, are still large 

 quantities of merchantable timber. There are smaller bodies of 

 timber, though scarcely more than is sufficient for local use, in 

 Wilson, Nash, Johnson, and the eastern parts of Wake and Anson 

 counties. 



FOREST INDUSTRIES. 



The loblolly pine is tapped for turpentine only to an inconsid- 

 erable extent, but the lumber industries of all of the towns to the 

 north of the Neuse river and of most of the sea-board towns to 

 the south of it, are entirely dependent on this pine for their lugs. 

 The chief seats of the manufacture of loblolly pine lumber are 

 Newbern, Washington, Elizabeth City, Edenton, Plymouth and 

 Wilmington. The annual cut of logs amounts to about 560,- 

 000,000 feet, boad measure, less than two-thirds of which is man- 

 ufactured in this State. 



The loblolly pine is not used for railyway ties, or sleepers of 

 any sort placed next to the earth. Railway ties for local use are 

 made from the post oak growing beneath the pine. The dogwood 

 is converted into shuttle blocks. No use is made of the smaH red 

 oaks and other small trees which constitute the remainder of the 

 forest. 



FOREST PROTECTION. 



The loblolly pine requires little protection compared with the 

 long-leaf pine. The seed is small and is not seriously destroyed 



