


Figure 51.— Three-fourths of the lumber produced in South Carolina is sawed by mills of this general type. 
The 272 mills which each averaged around a miilion- 
and-a-half board feet in 1946 represent a more stable 
element in the lumber industry (fig. 53). Owners of 
these mills are in the sawmill business; sawmilling 1s 
usually their chief source of income. While often in 
the transient class, these operations are better financed, 
TABLE 10.— Lumber production, by size of mill, 1946> 




Range of annual production 
(M bd. ft.) Sawmills Production 
Million 
Number| Percent bd. fa: Percent 
LS bie ath 6 ee IO CISC eee Aas 1,271 80 313.9 31 
OOO 75999 careicrexeivie cise esse pcmapauote 272 17 417.9 42 
BS OO 91900 ira sic tescictee oie er nivielt essences 33 2 170.1 17 
LOT OOO Sega ceetacn ica mecsiae sieie ies 7 1 98.9 10 
PullGlasseseeyocrciieeiciece a tee ee 1.583 100 1,000.8 100 

1 Data obtained in cooperation with Bureau of the Census. 
Timber Supply Outlook in South Carolina 
better equipped, operate more steadily, and produce 
a better quality product. 
Concentration yards (fig. 54) are an important adjunct 
to the small-mill business. There are about 80 of these 
in the State. A typical yard is equipped with a planer, 
sometimes a dry kiln, and frequently a small sawmill. 
Rough green lumber is obtained from a number of 
tributary small sawmills within short trucking distance. 
At the concentration yard the lumber is graded, dried, 
dressed, and marketed in car and truck-load quantities. 
Some of the tributary mills are owned by the yard 
operator. In other cases the concentrator buys stumpage 
and contracts the logging and sawing. In still other 
instances lumber is purchased from independent mills 
in competition with other buyers. In addition to provid- 
ing a local market for small quantities of mill-run 
lumber, the yard operator sometimes helps the small 
sawmiller by providing working capital for payrolls 
and stumpage. 
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