years but is now making paper from purchased 

 pulp and is expected to resume the production of 

 pulp in 1939. 



VENEER AND CONTAINERS 



Located within the unit are four veneer and 

 package plants, while two more north of the unit 

 draw a portion of their timber from it. The 

 capacity of the individual plants ranges from 

 12,000 to 16,000 board feet per day. The average 

 size log cut during 1935 was 15 inches in diameter. 

 Of the species cut, 19 percent was pine; the rest, 

 gum, beech, and magnolia. In this same year 

 these plants used 12,600,000 board feet of pine 

 and hardwood material for veneer; and this in- 

 dustry furnished 65,000 man-days of labor. 

 Southern markets buy 70 percent of the produc- 

 tion, while most of the remainder is shipped to 

 markets in the Northeastern States. 



The veneer industries caused a total drain, in- 

 cluding incidental waste, of 1,860,000 cubic feet, 

 or 1 percent of the total cubic-foot drain occa- 

 sioned by all forest industries operating within 

 the unit. 



COOPERAGE 



One cooperage plant within the unit, and 

 another to the west draw all their timber from the 

 unit. These two plants consumed 3,400,000 

 board feet of pine and hardwood material during 

 1935. One plant is cutting white oak 14 inches 

 in diameter and above for bourbon staves and 

 similar products. The other is cutting only 

 second-growth pine for staves and heading for 

 slack cooperage. These two plants furnished 

 1 3,000 man-days of employment in 1935. Southern 

 markets consume about 4 percent of the products, 

 other States 33 percent, and the export trade 63 

 percent. 



Merchantable material (plus incidental waste) 

 used for the production of cooperage in 1935 

 totaled 520,000 cubic feet. Cooperage drain 

 was less than 0.5 percent of the total cubic-foot 

 drain in the unit. 



FUEL WOOD 



Even though there is a bountiful supply of gas 

 in the unit, a lar?e demand for fuel wood bids fair 



Figure 11. — Utilization oj scrub oak stands for fuel wood. 



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