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FiGURE 52.— Small sawmills operate in every county, but are more 
the Bureau of th 
Number of Sawmills Doubled Since 1936 
South Carolina had more than twice as many saw- 
numerous in the Piedmont (data obtained in cooperation with 
e Census), 
TABLE 11.— Number of active sawmills, by size class and 
region, 1942 and 19461 









mills in 1946 as in 1936. The number of mills cutting 
E ae b d f ; h; ; d Southern Northern 
less than a million boar eet per year has Increase Range of annual | Coastal Coastal Piedmont | State 
37 percent since 1942, while the number cutting a production | Plain Plain | 
ee : s (M bd. ft.) |__| | = | 
million or more has decreased (table 11). Six mills | 1942 | 1946 | 1942] 1946 | 1942] 1946| 1942 | 1946 
sawing over 5 million feet per year stopped operating Ea =| SSeiless | ecard 
8 ; ; Rea PP P © 1—999 ..| 163 | 227 | 274 | 383 | 490 | 661 | 927] 1271 
between 1942 and 1946, leaving only 20 of these 1h O00 = 4.999 ge eee 34) 80 | 89 | 139 | 109 95 94 314 292 
A oath Le a ares 5.000 tyes nee peer }(-2O))) Mi) ear eee ee 20 
large mills in the State. al les Seed 
The effect has been a lower average production per All classes.........] 253 | 327 | 427 | 500 | 587 | 756 | 1,267 | 1,583 
mill, with each mill accounting for a smaller share of 
the drain on the forest. This tendency is most marked 
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1 Data obtained in cooperation with Bureau of the Census. 
Forest Resource Report No. 3, U. S. Department of Agriculture 

