10 PREFACE. 



and treats of the present condition of the forest and of forest industries, 

 with their economic relation to the people of the region and to the State 

 as a whole. It is primarily for the owners of forest land to furnish 

 them with information as to the proper management of their forest 

 holdings. 



The study upon which this report is based was made in the summer of 

 1909 by J. S. Holmes, Forester to the North Carolina Geological and 

 Economic Survey, assisted by Messrs. W. B. Willey and A. W. Wil- 

 liamson, Forest Assistants in the United States Forest Service. The 

 cost of the investigation was borne equally by the State and Federal 

 Governments. 



Further reports along the same lines will be published as the results 

 of examinations of the forests of other portions of the State. 



Acknowledgment is made to lumbermen, mill men, and others who, 

 by their courteous answers to requests for information, assisted materi- 

 ally in the preparation of this report. 



Joseph Hyde Pratt, 



State Geologist. 



