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Mississippi's forest resources and industries 



although they were frequently slow in making their 

 appearance and the pine did not come in as extensively 

 as in the old growth. Moreover, as described earlier, 

 new pine forests had been growing up on abandoned 

 fields over much of the uplands. In quality and 

 volume, these new forests were no match for the old 

 forests, but they were acquiring the value which comes 

 from scarcity and new uses. They provided raw mate- 

 rial for hundreds of small, portable sawmills and for 

 that new giant of southern industry', the wood pulp 

 mills. 



In 1946 the value of raw timber products both for 

 domestic use and for sale (logs, bolts, and other round 

 or split products, and also gum and wood naval stores) 

 in Mississippi was $122 million. Further manufacture 

 of these products within the State added $130 million 

 in value (fig. 10). In terms of income payments to the 

 2,100,000 people of Mississippi, this value of $252 

 million is reduced to some $202 million,^ 23 percent 

 of the total income in the State from all sources 

 except government. 



Income payments to people of Missis- 

 sippi from private enterprise, 1946 



Source: ' 



Trades and services 



Agriculture 



Timber products 



Other manufactures and mis- 

 cellaneous sources 



Total 



Million dollars 



Percent 



288 



33 



270 



30 



202 



23 



128 



14 



100 



' Total income payments and income payments from trades 

 and services and agriculture, from survey of current 

 BUSINESS, U. S. Bur. For. and Dora. Commerce, Aug. 1947. 

 Income from timber products derived from calculated value of 

 raw timber products and value added by manufacture. Income 

 from other manufactures and miscellaneous sources is a residual 

 between total income payments and all other items listed. 



Timber products are thus seen to be one of the 

 pillars of Mississippi's economy. They rank as a 

 source of income not far behind farming and well 

 ahead of all other manufactures, minerals, fisheries, 

 and miscellaneous forms of income. 



How many workers find employment in forest in- 

 dustry cannot be estimated with accuracy, since much 

 of the employment is part-time work for farmers. 

 But in terms of full employment (fifty 40-hour weeks 

 a year) , Mississippi's forest industry provides about 



2 An estimated $22 million worth of fuel wood and other 

 timber products is used on the farm but is never sold. In addi- 

 tion, an estimated $28 million is credited to nontimber sources of 

 income or flows as profit to people outside the State. 



LUMBER, VENEER, COOPERAGE, PLYWOOD 



PULP AND PAPER PRODUCTS 



WOOD PRESERVING 



1 



FUEL WOOD 



POLES AND PILING 



OTHER PRODUCTS 



40 60 80 



MILLION DOLLARS 



I VALUE OF r? 



I RAW PRODUCTS ti 



100 



120 



140 



j VALUE ADDED 

 I BY MANUFACTURE 



Figure 10. — \'alue of raw timber products and value added by manu- 

 facture, 1946. 



68,000 man-years of employment — 35.000 in cutting 

 products and hauling them to mills, and 33,000 in 

 manufacture (table 1). 



Nontimber Values of the Forest 



Throughout this report, emphasis is on the forest 

 as a source of timber. Other forest uses, however, may, 

 in the aggregate, have an even greater value. These 

 are watershed protection, grazing, recreation, and 

 wildlife protection. Usually several of these uses can 

 be combined successfully \vith commercial timber pro- 

 duction on the same area without seriously depleting 

 the growing stock or the soil. 



Table 1. — Employment ' in Mississippi' s forest industry, 1946 

 (Thousand man->'ears: i. e., 000 omitted] 



Industry or commodity' 



Lumber and lumber products 



Pulp and paper 



Veneer, plywood, and cooperage- 

 Naval stores 



Wood preserving 



Poles and piling 



Hewn tics 



Fuel wood and other farm use 



Total. 



Total 



In the 

 woods 



kx the 

 mill 



33.0 



12.1 



20.9 



10.9 



6.2 



4.7 



7.0 



2.4 



4.6 



3.8 



2.1 



1.7 



1.0 







1.0 



1.9 



1.9 







1.7 



1.7 



U 



S.8 



8.8 







68.1 



35.2 



32.9 



' Fiftv 40-h<n 



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