22 WORKING PLAN, FOREST LANDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 
The volume tables used for scaling Cypress and hardwoods were 
constructed in connection with the preparation of a working plan for 
another tract, where the conditions were similar to those on the lands 
of the Okeetee Gun Club. 
LUMBERING. 
The majority of the holdings purchased by the Okeetee Gun Club 
had been lumbered by their former owners. It is difficult to give the 
dates for the lumbering on different portions of the tract. Methods 
have been largely determined by the nature of the mills to supply 
which the lumbering was done. There has never been a mill on these 
lands equipped for thorough utilization of all timber; the work has 
all been done by circular-saw mills of small capacity, in the desultory 
manner characteristic of the older lumbering throughout the South. 
After the purchase of the tract the club lumbered in a small way 
for three years. The operations differed in no essential respect from 
the earlier logging. It was discontinued because of the unsatisfactory 
condition in which the lands were left, and because of the unnecessary 
waste incident to the methods employed. Timbers of large size were 
sawed to order. Logging to fill special orders resulted in the waste 
of much valuable material in tops and butts, and in the leaving of 
standing and felled trees. (Pl. VII.) The trees most desired by the 
lumbermen were those of medium size. Large mills saw to order, 
but with orders for many different sizes of timber constantly on hand 
it is possible for them so to systematize the logging that the method 
does not interfere with a clean job. Fora small mill, handling a com- 
paratively small number of orders, it 1s utterly impossible to log 
cleanly and at the same time economically. With absurdly inadequate 
facilities for transportation and milling, these small mills were prac- 
tically limited to the finest logs, from which the best grades of dimen- 
sion timber could be manufactured. Unequipped to handle the infe- 
rior grades of lumber, they wasted more timber than they used. The 
local mill men send all their product to the Savannah market. There 
would be a considerable percentage of the timber which this market 
would not absorb, even if the mills themselves were equipped to handle 
it. The club would experience no difficulty in disposing of its remain- 
ing timber to local mill men, but they would merely cull out the best 
timber, leaving the rest on the ground or in the slab piles at the mill. 
TURPENTINING. 
Turpentine orcharding has been the indirect cause of the total 
destruction of large bodies of pine forest on the lands now owned by 
the Okeetee Gun Club. A very large part of the Longleaf and Cuban 
Pine on the tract has been boxed at one time or another. Most of the 
boxing was done before the club acquired the land. 
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