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on the different portions of it. Since the railroad 

 reached Cranberry the lumbermen have invaded the 

 county, and secured most of the cherry trees at al- 

 most nominal prices. But there will be enough val- 

 uable timber of many kinds in the county to furnish 

 heavy railroad freights for many years. — W. W. L. 



Wayne, Johnston, Wake, Durham, Orange, 

 Alamance, Guilford, Davidson, Rowan, Ca- 

 barrus, Mecklenburg. (Area, 6,351 sq. miles.) 

 Route of the North Carolina Railroad. — N. C. R. R., 

 Sept. 25, 1882. — Beginning at Goldsboro, the upper 

 edge of Wayne, through Johnston to the lower edge 

 of Wake County, you will find the long-leaf pine to 

 be the prevailing species of timber on the uplands, 

 mixed with some oak and hickory, mostly red oak 

 and Spanish oak. On the rivers and creeks you will 

 find it more extensively grown with white oak, sweet 

 gum, black* gum, poplar, and cypress of large %ize. 

 Through this section about one-half the acreage is 

 yet in forest, mostly of the original growths. Upon 

 some of the uplands once in cultivation and since 

 turned out, has grown up the old-field pine, which 

 soon covers the lands with a thick growth of timber. 



From the lower edge of Wake County, through 

 Durham County, to the lower edge of Orange County, 

 you will find the white oak and post oak, mostly on 

 uplands, to be the prevailing growth, mixed with 

 what is termed the rosemary pine, with a sprinkling 

 of the long-leaf pine, in some places as far up as sixty- 

 five miles from Goldsboro. The rosemary pine ex- 



