Figure 39. — Delivering piilpwood to the Southern Kraft Division mill of the International Paper Company at Georgetown, S. C. In 1942 

 almost a million cords of pulpwood were produced in South Carolina. 



output of 43 stills, all but 8 of which were on the 

 southern Coastal Plain {8). In 1939-40 production 

 was estimated by the Southern Forest Experiment 

 Station at 426,500 gallons of turpentine and 28,400 

 barrels of rosin, the output of 39 stills. 



Miscellaneous Industries 



Nearly all of the 400,000 pine poles and piles pro- 

 duced in the State in 1940 were bought by treating 

 plants and utility companies. About 9S percent of 

 the poles came from the Coastal Plain. 



Railroads and treating plants purchased 420,000 

 hewn ties, of which slightly more than half were 

 pine. No data are available for sawn ties, since they 

 were included in the lumber production reported by 

 sawmills. All of the hewn ties were treated except 

 for a few thousand used by the smaller common car- 

 riers and logging railroads. Most of the ties were 

 for replacements in South Carolina and adjoining 

 States; the remainder were shipped to northern rail- 

 roads. 



The four cooperage mills in the State in 1940 were 

 located on the Coastal Plain. They produced slack 

 cooperage for a variety of uses, chiefly for sugar, 

 vegetable, rosin, and tobacco barrels. Hardwoods, 

 mostly sweetgum and blackgum, supplied about 

 two-thirds of the 42,300 cords of wood used. 



Smaller wood-using industries operating in South 

 Carolina in 1940 included 14 shingle mills making 

 pine and cypress shingles, 6 small-dimension mills 

 cutting furniture stock, and 6 shuttle bolt and 3 

 handle plants. These small plants used a total of 

 21,500 cords annually, largely pine. Most of them 

 were on the Coastal Plain. 



Fuel Wood aytd Miscellaneous Farm Products 



As indicated in table 17, more wood is used every 

 year for fuel than for any other purpose. Of the 2.9 

 million cords consumed in South Carolina in 1940, 

 about 65 percent was used by farm families, 30 per- 

 cent by rural nonfarm and urban families, and the 

 rest by commercial establishments, institutions, and 

 in'curinsc tobacco. About half the fuel wood was 



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