FOREST CONSERVATION IN SOUTHERN PINE REGION. 3 
has made studies of their forest conditions and reports have been 
prepared and, in most cases, published either by the State or by the 
Service.? 
WHAT THE LUMBER INDUSTRY MEANS TO THE SOUTHERN PINE 
STATES. 
The manufacture of lumber and other timber products ranks first 
among the industries of Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Vir- 
ginia. It ranks second among the industries of Florida, Georgia, 
Louisiana, and South Carolina, third among those of North Carolina 
and Texas, and sixth among those of Missouri. Something like 
16,000 sawmills operate in these States, and a large number of addi- 
tional establishments manufacture cooperage stock, veneers, and 
other forest products. These plants employ some 330,000 persons, 
or about one-third of all the workers engaged in the various indus- 
tries. The average annual lumber cut in the region amounts to 
about 19,500,000,000 board feet, of which approximately three- 
fourths is yellow pine. Assuming an average value for the lumber 
of $14 per thousand feet, the total value of the annual cut would 
amount to nearly $275,000,000. About a quarter of this sum repre- 
sents the value of the stumpage from which the lumber is manu- 
factured; the greater part of the remainder is paid out in the form 
of wages to residents of the region. 
The amount of standing timber in the southern pine region has 
been estimated by the Bureau of Corporations and the Forest Serv- 
ice as 675,000,000,000 board feet, of which 385,000,000,000 feet is 
yellow pine, 40,000,000,000 feet cypress, and the remainder prin- 
cipally hardwoods. At the present rate of cutting this amount will 
last scarcely more than 35 years. Should there remain no commer- 
cial bodies of yellow pine or prospect of any, after the present stands 
are exhausted, the resultant loss to the people of the Southern States 
in business and wages will be very seriously felt. 
The naval-stores industry, which is one of the most important in 
the South and which depends upon yellow pine as a source of supply 
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W. Ashe, House Doc. No. V, Communication from the Governor, 1910; 
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Geol. and Econ. Surv., 1911; 
“Forest Conditions in South Carolina,” by W. M. Moore, Bull. No. 1, State Dept. of 
Agrie., Com. and Ind., 1910; 
“Condition of Cut-over Longleaf Pine Lands in Speen ee by J. S. Holmes and 
J. H. Foster, Circ. 149, U. S. Dept. Agric., For. Ser., 
“Forest Conditions of Southwestern Mississippi,’ ; by J. S. Holmes and J. H. Foster, 
Bull. No. 5, Miss. State Geol. Surv., 1908; 
‘ oe Forest Conditions of Mississippi,” by "C. EL Dunston, Bull. No. 7, Miss. State Geol. 
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* ote Forest Conditions in Louisiana,” by J. H. Foster, Bull. No. 114, U. S. Dept. Agric., 
or. Ser u 
= es mores Resources of Texas,” by. William L. Bray, Bull. No. 47, U. S. Dept. Agric., 
ur. For 
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Commissioner, 1910; i 
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89, University of Missouri, Agric. Exp. Sta., 1910. 
