FOREST POLICY. 



4. Forest ownership: 453 firms own 1,108,000 acres of for- 

 est, containing 3,800 feet b. m. average stumpage. The balance 

 of the wood lands belongs to farmers, or to counties and State 

 under tax-forfeitures. 



5. Use of timber: Long leaf pine was and is frequently sold 

 as "Georgia pine." The woods are far from being exhausted. 

 The inroads of the turpentine industry seem more injurious to 

 the perpetuity of the forest than those of the lumber industry. 

 1,202 mills of $4,274 average investment. Logs on stump are 

 worth $1.01; at mill, $4.41. Logging by railroad and by rafting. 

 Value of output in 



i86o $ 2,400,000 



1870 4,000,000 



1880 4,900,000 



1890 6,500,000 



1900 13,700,000 



The cut of igoo consisted of: — 



Yellow pine 1,295,000,000 feet b.m. 



Other conifers 18,000,000 feet b. m. 



Hardwoods 39,000,000 feet b. m. 



Cooperage and miscellaneous industries are small, their out- 

 put amounting to only $135,000 in the census year. 



The leather industry produces in 36 establishments $1,187,000 

 worth of products and consumes 23,217 cords of oak bark (valued 

 at $87,000); 85 cords of hemlock bark; 5,107 barrels of oak bark 

 extract (worth $41,000), and 950 barrels of quebracho extract 

 (worth $16,800). 



Paper and pulp industry: None. 



6. Forestry movement: In 1887 a bill asking for a forest 

 commission, etc., seems to have failed. 



7. Laws: Firing of woods by the owner must be preceded 

 by notice given the adjoining land owners (excepting the months 

 of March and April). 



8. Reservations: None. 



9. Irrigation: 7,856 acres of rice fields were irrigated in 

 1899, constituting 35% of the total rice area and yielding 72% of 



■the total rice product. Cost of system, per acre, is $31.85. 



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