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handled in manufactured lumber for inside finish, and would have a 
considerable standing only in the market for North Carolina pine. 
Savannah, the nearest market for the timber from these lands, handles 
mostly construction timber of large dimensions, known as ‘‘mer- 
chantable.” The sapwood timber from these forests could not be sold 
there to advantage. 
If the club were in a position to put up a thoroughly modern mill, 
equipped with dry kilns and planing and lath mills, and were willing 
to install a complete system of transportation and to undertake the 
large business of lumbering the whole tract, a mill situated on the 
southern boundary of the tract, near Hardeeville, at the junction 
of the Southern and the Charleston and Savannah railroads, would 
undoubtedly be a very profitable investment. This location has many 
natural advantages as the site for a large mill. A short spur from 
the Southern Railroad to Becks Ferry, on the Savannah River, would 
greatly facilitate the logging of Cypress in the Savannah River Swamp, 
and wouid also open a water route for the shipment of the product of 
the mill. With the construction of a temporary railroad from a point 
on the Charleston and Savannah Railroad to Okeetee Creek, travers- 
ing the zone of timber on the east side of the tract, the mill would be 
very accessible to all the timber belonging to the club. This tempo- 
rary railroad should be built along the Great Swamp, so that a steam 
skidder could run a line into the swamp on one side and could !og the 
pine on the other. Outlying pine timber could be reached in favor- 
able weather with timber carts. The railroad and steam skidder would 
overcome the difficulty of logging in wet weather—a serious problem 
of economical lumbering on these lands on account of the poor bottom. 
Another water route is through Okeetee Creek, where there are 17 feet 
of water at low tide, into Broad River. The mill would stand at the 
junction of two railroads operating separate tracks northward. 
As it is the preference of the club not to undertake this enterprise 
on its own account, it is advised that the timber be sold either fora 
lump sum or on a stumpage basis, with or without the right to build 
a mill on the tract. 

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The tables of present yield include only the portion of merchantable 
timber standing upon these lands which was actually estimated in con- 
nection with the preparation o/ the working plan. In addition to this 
there is a large amount of Cypress in the Savannah River Swamp and 
in the unsurveyed portion of the Great Swamp, and a considerable 
amount of pine timber in scattered bodies throughout the tract. Much 
of this timber is so scattered that it would be unprofitable to lumber 
it; but the conclusion reached by the Bureau of Forestry, after a 
careful examination of the tract. is that the condition of the forest 
