allied products) amounted to 102.8 million dollars 
(fig. 6). These industries, wholly or partially dependent 
upon timber resources, accounted for 13 percent of the 
total value added by manufacture in the State, and in 
this respect ranked second only to the textile industry. 
In 1948, one-half of all the firms engaged in manu- 
facturing (fig. 7) were making forest products. The 
value of their plants and equipment amounted to 20 
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FIGURE 3.— One-fifth of the total volume of timber cut in 1947 
was used for home heating, cooking, and curing tobacco. 
Rural and village people cut fuel wood worth about 17 
million dollars. 
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FiGuRE 5.— This large pulp and paper mill at Georgetown, is 
one of several in South Carolina and adjoining States that 
depend upon the State’s forests for about a million cords of 
pulpwood a year. 

PRODUCT 
FIGURE 4.— Many rural people are wholly or partially depend- 
ent upon woods work for their livelihood. 
TEXTILES 
FOREST PRODUCTS 
work mean cash income to tide them over until the FOOD 
crop comes in. 
CHEMICALS 
FORESTS SUPPORT A 100-MILLION-DOLLAR INDUSTRY STONE, CLAY, GLASS 
Every year industries dependent upon forest products 



ALL OTHER 
(fig. 5) pour millions of dollars’ worth of commodities 
Er } 200. 300 400 500 
into trade channels. According to the 1947 Census of MILLION DOLLARS 
Manufactures (14), value added by manufacture in the : eee 
pe qc eee cients Pann ae FIGURE 6.— Value added by manufacture for principal indus- 
orest products industries (lumber, paper, furniture, anc tries in South Carolina, 1947. (Source: Bureau of the Census.) 
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