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The excellent showing reported by Professor Shinn and the few 
trees occasionally met with in the South indicate that the tree can be 
successfully grown on sandy clay soils throughout the southern pax of 
the Gulf States and South Carolina. 
Whether the cork industry will flourish in the United States can 
only be proved by time; the probabilities are that it will be successful 
and be of immense value. The official statistics show that the United 
States has imported cork during the year 1892 to the value of $1,689,724, 
and during 1893 to the value of $1,993,025. Cork is now at eleven 
times the price that was paid for it in 1790. This is certainly induce- 
ment enough for us to try to protect ourselves by entering into the- 
production of cork. 
