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swamps and cane brakes. The cutting has been done gradually in 

 these swamps and the young growth is in a fair condition. The 

 long-leaf pine lands lie in the southern and central parts of the 

 county and consist mostly of turpentine orchards either still being 

 worked or now abandoned. There are in this county 130,000,000 

 feet of standing long-leaf pine. 



Columbus county has in its southern and eastern parts, along 

 AVaccamaw river and the lake swamp and in Green bay, some 

 very fine cypress. These bodies have in part been lumbered. In 

 White and Brown marshes and in the western section of the 

 county, along Lumber river and Big swamp, there are large tracts 

 of unlumbered cypress lands. The total area of cypress in the 

 county is about 32,000 acres. In Green bay swamp, from which 

 large quantities of white cedar have already been taken, there still 

 remains a great deal more. There are 60,000 acres of swamp lands 

 in the county. On the level pine flats there are between ten and 

 twenty thousand acres of loblolly pine, largely second growth, 

 Tery little of wdiich has ever been cut. The long-leaf pine lands 

 lying in the central and northern portions of the county have 

 145,000,000 feet of merchantable pine standing on them. 



DuPLix COUNTY contains about 12,000 acres of cypress swamp 

 along the North East river and its tributaries. Adjacent to the 

 streams much of the best timber has been culled or picked over. 

 The remaining merchantable cypress lies principally along North 

 East river, Back swamp, Goshen, Lockwood and Cypress pocosins. 

 There are excellent water oak, willow oak and swamp chestnut 

 oak in the flats bordering the above-mentioned swamps and 

 Angola bay. There is some ash and yellow poplar, but the wood 

 of neither tree is here of a superior quality. Over one-half of the 

 swamp area, which amounts to about 38,000 acres, is covered with 

 compact forests of black and sweet gum and tupelo. The loblolly 

 pine, which is largely second growth, occupies about 50,000 acres. 

 There is still some rosemary pine on the more fertile lands around 

 the smaller swamps. The quantity of standing long-leaf pine is 

 not large, only 68,000,000 feet. This county and Pender have 

 furnished a great deal of timber for the Wilmington mills. 



Pender county. — Several of the swamps of this county are 

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