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western half of the county is quite hilly, as are also the western 

 portions of Northampton and Nash counties. The soil, while 

 sandy, gravelly and pebbly in places, is in general much more 

 clayey than that of the eastern section. The forests of this west- 

 ern half of the county are mostly oaks, hickories and other hard- 

 wood trees, with a few scattering short-leaf pines. 



Nash county has a soil and topography much resembling those 

 of eastern Wake, being a rolling country, hilly along the larger 

 streams and having a light loam soil. The growth, also, is like 

 that of Wake, consisting of scattered long-leaf pines, about 20,000,- 

 000 feet, board measure, standing, which is rapidly being replaced 

 by loblolly, or on close soils by oaks, dogwood and hickories. The 

 long-leaf pine extends west to the clay hills; on which the 

 hardwoods of the uplands are mixed with short-leaved pines. There 

 is more loblolly pine here than in Wake, both original growth and 

 second growth. There has been very little lumbering done in the 

 county except immediately along the lines of the railroads. 



Montgomery county^ lyi^^g west of Moore, has in the eastern 

 part, on a loam soil, a heavy growth of long-leaf pine which has 

 never been lumbered. This growth toward the middle of the 

 county is mixed with short-leaf pine and hardwoods, and there the 

 hardwood uplands begin. This is the finest body of pine for lum- 

 ber now in the State, having been worked for turpentine for only 

 four or five years. There are 338,000,000 feet of long-leaf pine in 

 the county , and about 40,000,000 feet of short-leaf. There are 

 some extensive bodies of hardwoods in the Uwharrie mountains in 

 the western section. 



Chatham county now has an inconsiderable amount of long- 

 leaf pine in the extreme south-eastern section. Its place has been 

 taken as it was removed by a heterogeneous growth of oaks and 

 the short-leaf pine. In the middle part of the county there are 

 along the ridges short-leaf pines and hardwoods, while the low- 

 lands along the Haw and the Deep rivers are timbered in most 

 places wdtli oaks, maple and loblolly pine. 



Wake couNTY^has in the eastern part considerable long-leaf pine 

 still standing, mixed with a young and vigorous growth of oaks 

 and dogwood. The soil is for the most part a reddish loam, inter- 



