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THE FORESTS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



to market. Most of it is manufactured out of the 

 State. The prevailing growth on the highlands is 

 pine. Immense quantities of this have also been cut 

 and moved out of the State to be manufactured, but 

 no inconsiderable quantity is manufactured in the 

 State. In this county there are about fifteen mills 

 for the manufacture of pine lumber. There are large 

 quantities of timber still standing on the low and 

 high lands, great as has been the drain during the 

 past fifteen years. We have an abundance of wood 

 of different kinds— oak, maple, sweet gum, ash, hick- 

 ory, holly, poplar, etc., on the uplands, and bay, 

 black gum, laurel, etc., in the swamps. Nearly or 

 quite one-half of the area east of Roanoke River in 

 this State is still wild;, probably one-fourth of that 

 whole territory is swampy and not susceptible of 

 cultivation. — F. V. 



Pender. (917 sq. miles.) — Burgaw, Aug. 21, 

 1882.— We have pine, oak, hickory, maple, sweet and 

 black gum in abundance, and in several sections 

 birch, willow, and walnut in quantities. The pre- 

 vailing growth is long-leaf pine, oak, hickory, and 

 maple. The wooded acreage is about two-thirds of 

 the entire quantity. Number of acres in the county, 

 353,794, two-thirds of which is wooded land. The 

 long-leaf pine covers about one-third of entire num- 

 ber of acres, or half of the wooded land, amounting 

 to 117,931 acres. The other half is about equally 

 divided in the other growths, such as hickory, zum, 

 etc.— W. T. E. 



