THOUSAND 

 CORDS 

 200r 



150 



100 



50 



1939 



1941 



1943 



1945 



1949 



Figure 27. — Pulpwood production in Tennessee, 1939-49. 



linas, and Virginia. Some 96 thousand cords were 

 imported by Tennessee mills, principally from North 

 Carolina, Kentucky, and Georgia. Analysis of pulp- 

 wood movement to the four mill units in the State 

 shows that more than half of the pulpwood utilized 

 was produced within an airline radius of 100 miles of 

 the mill to which it was delivered and almost eight- 

 tenths was produced within a 200-mile radius. The 



maximum haul was about 500 miles. Drawing terri- 

 tories of the individual mills vary considerably accord- 

 ing to the timber supply, the availability of the re- 

 source in competition with other wood -users, wood- 

 procurement policies, and transportation facilities. 



Current expansion of the wood-pulp industry in 

 Tennessee indicates that the pattern of pulpwood pro- 

 duction is likely to undergo important changes in the 

 future. A newsprint and sulfate pulp mill at Calhoun 

 came into production in 1954, and this, with some 

 expansion of other plants, has added about 660 tons 

 of daily additional pulping capacity. Although a 

 portion of the pulpwood requirements necessary to 

 supply the added capacity will be drawn from ad- 

 joining States, the net effect of the expanded plant 

 capacity of the industry will be a greatly intensified 

 demand for pulpwood (chiefly pine) within the State. 



Fence Posts 



Like fuelwood, fence posts are chiefly a farm- 

 woodland product cut for local use. In the aggregate, 

 the 14.8 million pieces produced in 1949 accounted 

 for 4 percent of the timber output (fig. 28). The 

 farm-cut posts are mainly cedar among the softwoods; 

 oak and locust amon? the hardwoods. 



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Figure 28. — Large quantities of fence posts are harvested annually. (Tenn. Conservation Dept. photo.) 



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