FOREST POLICY. 



5. Use of timber: Firewood commands a high price, owing 

 to density of population (250 pro square mile). Stumpage costs 

 $3.02; logs at mill cost $7.15 per 1,000 feet b. m. 33 saw mills 

 report an average investment of $3,131. The census gives the 

 value of the output of the lumber mills, since 1870, at about 

 $250,000 annually. 



The cut in 1900 is reported to consist of 18,000,000 feet 

 b. m., including 14,000,000 (?) feet b. m. of white pine. 



Leather industry: 5 tanneries, of $293,000 output, consume 

 26 cords of hemlock- bark, worth $260, and $S,ooo worth of 

 chemicals. 



There is no paper or pulp mill. 



6. Forestry movement: None. Some private plantations 

 on sand land. 



7. Laws: Fire laws. No case was ever prosecuted. 



8. Reservations: None. 



9. Irrigation: 2 farms produce on 40 acres $32,000 worth 

 of vegetables (?). 



FORESTRY CONDITIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA: 



1. Area: 20,500 square miles, or 68% of total area, are 

 said to be stocked, generally, with merchantable forest. Sargent's 

 estimate of yellow pine supplies, existing in 1880, was 5.3 billion 

 feet b. m. 



2. Physiography: On the North Carolina line, in the ex- 

 treme northwest, the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Piedmont 

 plateau lies to the east and south of these mountains and extends 

 to a line 150 miles from the coast, where the lowlands of the 

 coastal plain set in. 



3. Distribution: In the tier of mountain counties occur 

 the species typical for the southern Appalachians (see Georgia). 

 In the Piedmont section, the hardwoods (especially white, chest- 

 nut and red oaks, poplar, hickory, ash, chestnut and Cottonwood) 

 occur with Pinus taeda and (less) echinata. The coastal plain has 

 long leaf pine for the main timber tree. Cubensis gives out near 

 Charleston. On moist ground, Pinus taeda of splendid growth, 

 often mixed with red oak and, white cedar. Huge swamps are 

 occupied by cypress and gums, the hummocks showing elm, hick- 



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