Southern Pines Pay . . 



Profitable for Big Owners 



j TIVABLE to sell thousands of acres of its clear-cut pinelands, a large 

 ^ lumber company in eastern Louisiana reforested 30,000 acres by plant- 

 ing seedlings of longleaf, slash, and loblolly pines. The planting was done 

 in the decade from 1920 to 1930. 



At the time planting was begun the land is estimated to have been 

 worth $1 per acre. It cost $4 per acre for planting, making a total in- 

 vestment of $5 per acre. When the trees were 12 years old the company 

 harvested 5 cords of pulp wood and 1 cord of top wood per acre. This was 

 worth not less than $1 per cord on the stump, or $6. There were left 18 

 cords per acre. 



The planting was done primarily to keep a large paper mill running, 

 but growth has been such that the company can cut more pulpwood and 

 in a few years will also be able to keep a sawmill busy, besides cutting 

 poles and piling. 



After holding cut -over land in South Carolina for many years, during 

 which time the local people burned it over regularly, a large southern 

 railroad began planting small pines on open lands of an 11,000-acre tract 

 and protecting the trees from fire. The success of this reforestation proj- 

 ect, as illustrated on the following page, has been real, and the property is 

 now known as one of the best-paying tracts of timber in the section. 



Seven years later or 13 years after planting, the trees pictured on the opposite page are 35 



to 45 feet in height and 6 to 9 inches in diameter. Stumps from the virgin longleaf trees 



are plainly visible, but those from recent pulpwood cutting are low and mostly hidden by 



the grass (September 1937). 



