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FORESTS, FOREST LANDS AND FOREST PRODUCTS. 



that along the streams, is all second growth and forms open forests. 

 About one-fifth of the wood land, or 30,000 acres, is loblolly pine 

 fit for mill timber. When removed this loblolly pine is apt to be 

 succeeded by small oaks. There are now standing in this county 

 probably 30,000,000 feet of scattering long-leaf pine. 



Lenoir county is situated on the Neuse just below Wayne, and its 

 swamp lands along the Neuse are of the same character and in a 

 similar condition. The extreme southern and western parts of 

 the county are very sandy, and in places on the ridges there are 

 important bodies of long-leaf pine, or black-jack oak, which in 

 places has replaced it, wdiile between the ridges there lie very nar- 

 row alluvial or peaty bottoms covered with a grow^th of swamp 

 timbers. Scattered through the county are plains, at times inun- 

 dated, on which there is a grow^th of oaks, maples, elms and ash. 

 The eastern section is flat loblolly pine land covered with a heavy 

 growth, except near the river; but there are scattered through this 

 loblolly pine forest small pocosins covered with savanna pines 

 and a variety of shrubs. There are about 30,000 acres of loblolly 

 pine and 30,000,000 feet of standing long-leaf pine in the county. 



Johnston county lies west of Wayne and is also drained by 

 the Neuse. Along the ri'ver and its numerous tributaries there 

 are the usual strips of swampy alluvium covered with swamp 

 timbers. In the eastern and southern parts of the county the soil 

 is a sandy loam, which becomes more loamy toward the north and 

 west, and the surface in these sections is more rolling and hilly. 

 The timber on this loam consists of long-leaf pine, mixed with 

 oaks and loblolly pine, and in the southern section near the river 

 there are quantities of valuable loblolly pine. There has been 

 very little milling done in the county, but considerable timber has 

 been rafted to mills down the river. The long-leaf pine is being 

 very rapidly replaced by the loblolly pine, the amount of the 

 former now standing being only about 160,000,000 feet. 



THE PINE-BARREN REGION. 



In Robeson county there is along the dark loam lands of the 

 Lumber river 28,000 acres occupied exclusively by the loblolly 



