praisal, but it is believed that existing drain figures for 

 lumber are too low. Black market transactions do not find 

 their way into reports of lumber cut. Collecting lumber 

 production data is a very difficult job at any time, and has 

 been made doubly so in recent years. 



The appraisal determined areas cut over for logs, wood, 

 and pulp in each sample county, according to the propor- 

 tion of plots having such cuttings. Bertie County, for 



example, showed that an estimated 114,000 acres was cut 

 for logs in five years. If one assumes the average log cut- 

 ting removed to be 3 M per acre, then 340 million feet were 

 cut in five years, or 70 million per year. The Census shows 

 49 million sawed in 1942, a high year. 



Halifax County was indicated to have had 87,000 acres 

 cut over for logs in the previous five years. Assuming 2 M 

 cut per acre, this would be 175 million feet cut, or 35 



Table 15 



PRODUCTION OF LUMBER BY COUNTIES 



1942 



County 



Lumber Sawed (M ft.,b.m.) 



County 



Lumber Sawed (M ft.,b.m.) 



Alamance 



Alexander 



Alleghany 



Anson 



Ashe 



Avery 



Beaufort 



Bertie 



Bladen 



Brunswick & New Hanover 



Buncombe 



Burke 



Cabarrus 



Caldwell 



Camden 



Carteret & Jones 



Caswell 



Catawba 



Chatham 



Cherokee & Graham 



Chowan & Perquimans .... 



Clay 



Cleveland 



Columbus 



Craven 



Cumberland 



Currituck 



Dare & Hyde 



Davidson 



Davie 



Duplin . . 



Durham 



Edgecombe 



Forsyth 



Franklin 



Gaston 



Gates 



Granville 



Greene "... 



Guilford 



Halifax 



Harnett 



Haywood 



Henderson 



Hertford 



Hoke 



Iredell 



7,721 

 11,529 



3,871 

 33,219 



8,075 



6,512 

 51,567 

 49,055 

 42,563 

 11,364 



9,683 

 12,687 



1,232 



17,978 



447 



9,681 

 16,996 

 20,598 

 47,438 

 17,301 

 24,246 



7,990 



7,520 

 45,558 

 35,139 

 23,264 



1,605 



2,865 

 19,332 



8,268 

 42,486 

 16,266 



8,083 



9,861 

 27,659 



4,595 



4,115 

 41,819 



1,076 

 35,398 

 18,427 

 27,387 

 12,310 



2,287 

 14,636 



5,792 

 18,240 



Jackson and Transylvania 



Johnston 



Lee 



Lenoir and Pitt 



Lincoln 



McDowell 



Macon 



Madison 



Martin 



Mecklenburg 



Mitchell 



Montgomery 



Moore 



Nash 



Northampton 



Onslow 



Orange 



Pamlico 



Pasquotank 



Pender 



Person 



Polk 



Randolph 



Richmond 



Robeson 



Rockingham 



Rowan 



Rutherford 



Sampson 



Scotland 



Stanly 



Stokes 



Surry 



Swain 



Tyrrell 



Union 



Vance 



Wake < 



Warren 



Washington 



Watauga 



Wayne 



Wilkes 



Wilson 



Yadkin 



Yancey 



24,692 

 18,367 

 13,027 

 18,015 



8,870 



6,976 

 11,376 



4,264 

 26,300 



3,884 



4,335 

 32,162 

 33,180 

 22,358 

 35,356 



9,587 

 21,408 



8,073 

 28,165 

 18,753 

 19,177 



7,798 

 34,778 

 17,420 

 27,972 

 13,388 



9,016 

 18,233 

 45,126 



3,941 

 18,046 

 15,543 

 17,687 

 13,475 

 13,300 

 18,846 



5,708 

 48,127 

 32,027 

 10,694 

 10,724 

 20,908 

 40,942 



9,953 

 13,365 

 10,543 



State Total 1,691,536 



(23) 



