LEGEND 
STANDARD CORDS 
SS) 40,000 - 59,999 
2] 10000 - 13,999 +. 60000 - 79,999 
V/, 20,000 ~ 39,999 aed 80,000 - 99,999 
TOTAL PRODUCTION 3,794,900 CORDS 
Includes lumber, veneer, pulpwood, cooperage, excelsior, 
and other miscellaneous manufactured products. 
SX 
a 
MOUNTAIN 
PIEDMONT 
SS 
IX. 
COASTAL PLAIN 
Ficure 57.—Total production for lumber, veneer logs, pulpwood, cooperage bolts, excelsior, and miscellaneous manufactured 
products by county, 1945. 
Summary of County Production 
Figure 57 shows the total 1945 production in stand- 
ard cords for all the listed products (lumber, pulp- 
wood, veneer logs, cooperage bolts, excelsior, and other 
miscellaneous manufactured products) in each county 
of the State. 
wood, fence posts, poles and piles, and other hewn 
County data are not available for fuel 
products. 
It is evident that production is concentrated (1) 
in the southeastern part of the State in a broad belt 
along the fall line which separates the Coastal Plain 
from the Piedmont, and (2) along and immediately 
With 
two exceptions (Tazewell and Accomac Counties), all 
adjacent to the southern part of the Blue Ridge. 
of the counties producing more than 60,000 cords of 
material lie in one or the other of these two areas. 
The Coastal Plain produced two-fifths of the total pro- 
duction of 3.8 million cords, the Piedmont an equal 
amount, and the Mountain province the other one- 
fifth. 
Employment 
Accurate information on the number of workers em- 
ployed in the forest-products industries is almost im- 
possible to obtain because of the small size and widely 
scattered distribution of many of the plants, and be- 
cause so much of the labor is on a part-time basis. 
. Much of the part-time labor force consists of farmers 
who work intermittently in woods or plants during 
slack periods on the farm. 
A special study made by the Forest Service in co- 
operation with the War Production Board (8) indi- 
cated that as of July 1, 1944, slightly more than 39,200 
workers were engaged in producing primary forest 
products, excluding fuel wood, as follows: 
Woods workers: Number 
Sawlogs, veneer logs and bolts______________ 6, 950 
Pulpwood ____ eae ne SAN Bee 5, 780 
ATO ther 2 22282 ee Ss iis CEs neers 5, 730 
Fo tales ss 2s Se sD eee ee ORO) 
Plant workers: 
Sawmills and concentration yards____________ 12, 390 
Pulp and related processing__+--____________ 5, 020 
Plywoodsand: veneer! 22a ee ee 1, 270 
@ooperace stock] =" as Bre as Se 960 
Dewabab beter «Copan aXe mics ene EUS a 780° 
Shingless Saisaeieees es Ss ieee 10 
band Tem lama gi eae 130 
Exe] Sire ew Soa oie Sse We een etna ee 140 
Shuttle blocks = Bok ae ans Seen 20 
Miscellaneous ______ Ba Ron deena eee SS 40 
otaleteas sere Baer 20, 760 
Of the total number, 47 percent were employed in 
the woods and 53 percent in the plants. These figures 
do not include workers in secondary forest industries 
such as furniture, paper making, and box plants. The 
average annual wage in forest-products industries in 
1943 was $1,015 (5) and, based on that rate, the total 
forest industry pay roll for 1944 may be estimated 
at $39,800,000. 
40 Miscellaneous Publication 681, U. S. Department of Agriculture 
