Figure 36. — Lumber production of South Carolina, 1870-1940. 



Table 18. — South Carolina lumber production and value at 

 by species, 1940 





Species 



Production i 



Valued 



Yellow pines 



M board f let 

 625,690 

 83.330 

 55,290 

 42.540 

 22,450 

 15.810 

 10,220 

 9.260 

 3,580 

 2,190 

 1,220 

 1,920 



Dollars 

 12.720.278 





2,554,064 





1,899,212 



Tupelo 



1 107 316 



Oak 



556.086 



Yellow-poplar 



Maple 



448,055 

 335,931 



Ash 



343,176 





90.216 





57,926 



Hemlock 



29 012 



All other _ 





55.834 



Total 



873,500 ' 



20.197,106 



drying methods the cut of hardwoods has increased, 

 and they are now in strong demand for both lumber 

 and veneer (fig. 37). 



Despite the difficulties and restrictions inevitable 

 in wartime, the sawmill industry has maintained a 

 high level of production. In 1942 the cut amounted 

 to 1.1 billion board-feet (table 19), and this would 

 probably have been greatly exceeded because of 

 stimulated war demands, but 221 mills were idle in 

 the State and many operated far below capacity, 

 owing largely to the shortage of competent labor, 

 particularly in the woods. 



1 Estimates by the Forest Service based upon the 1940 Cen 

 sus returns. ► 



^ Forest Service and Census Bureau, lumber, lath, and ^ 



SHINGLES, 1940. (Processed.) 1942. 



Seventy-eight percent of the average annual lum- 

 ber production during the 5-year period 1936-40 was 

 on the Coastal Plain, 52 percent on the northern and 

 26 percent on the southern unit (table 36, Appen- 

 dix). The bulk of the cut was pine; hardwoods 

 made up only about a quarter of it. Prior to 1913, 

 hardwoods formed less than 10 percent and before 

 1927, less than 20 percent of the lumber cut in South 

 Carolina. Since the development of modern kiln- 



Figure37. — Logging bottom-land hardwoods on the Coastal Plain. 

 About one-fifth of the lumber cut in South Carolina in 1942 was 

 hardwood. 



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