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jack on it, and in the localities more recently lumbered there 

 remain a few scattered pines. It lies in the eastern and southern 

 parts of the county, along the railroads. In places there are some 

 post and Spanish oaks with the sand black-jack oak, but there is 

 almost no loblolly pine and no other material suitable for building- 

 purposes except the long-leaf pine. When lumbering has ceased 

 there will probably be over twice the area of waste land there now 

 is, since all the southern section of the county is high rolling pine 

 barrens, with a deep sandy soil. 



Richmond county has a soil in character similar to that of the 

 southern part of Moore; but since lumbering has not been so 

 extensively carried on in Richmond as in Moore there are in the 

 former only about 40,000 acres of waste land, all of which have 

 been lumbered except a few small tracts which have been burnt 

 over. This waste land lies along the C. C. and R. & A. R. R's. 

 It is covered with a thick growth of sand black-jack oak, and there 

 are undersized pines scattered over a part of the area, many of them 

 still being worked for turpentine. Except the long-leaf pine there 

 is very little timber in the eastern part of the county suitable for 

 building material. 



Robeson county has very little waste land and very littl-e deep 

 sand except in the northern part of the county. In that section, 

 adjacent to the Cape Fear river, there are possibly 10,000 acres 

 with little tree growth except sand black-jack oak. In the middle 

 and southern parts of the county the loblolly pine is taking the 

 place of the long-leaf pine. 



Brunswick county contains several thousand acres of waste and 

 very thinly timbered lands along or near the sea-coast and the Cape 

 Fear river. While these lands w^ere never heavily timbered they 

 are now rapidly getting into a deplorable state, which is a presage 

 of the final destruction of the long-leaf pine. 



Columbus county has about as much waste land as Brunswick. 

 This land is in small tracts lying in the southern part of the county 

 and the sand black-jack 'oak has taken possession of most of it. 

 Good loblolly pine is, however, abundant through most sections of 

 this county. 



Wayne county 'has 20,000 or more acres of waste land covered 



