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FORESTS, FOREST LANDS AND FOREST PRODUCTS. 



that in Lenoir, Wayne and Johnston counties there is considerable 

 long-leaf pine. There are few swamps except along the streams. 



The PINE-BARREN REGIONS. — The counties containing the larger 

 portion of the pine-barren areas are New Hanover, Sampson, Bladen, 

 Robeson, Cumberland, Harnett, Richmond and Moore. These lie 

 south of the Neuse river and just west of the southern seaboard, 

 excepting New Hanover, which is situated at the mouth of the 

 Cape Fear river. The altitude of these counties varies between 

 about the same limits which were given for the inland loblolly 

 pine counties. Long-leaf pine or the sand black-jack, which has 

 largely replaced it, is the characteristic growth of these counties. 



The transition region. — Nash, Halifax and Northampton 

 counties form a tier of counties which are transitional between the 

 loblolly uplands and the hardwood hills. These in their western por- 

 tions have an altitude of from 200 to 400 feet, while their eastern 

 portions lie at a lower level. They have no swamps except narrow 

 strips of alluvium lowlands along the streams, which are subject to 

 overflow. Montgomery, Chatham and Wake form another tier of 

 transitional counties. They lie partly in the long-leaf pine belt 

 and partly in the hardwood hill country. The western portions of 

 these counties reach an altitude varying from 450 to 700 feet; but 

 along the streams and in the more easterly portions their altitude 

 is considerably less. 



THE SEABOARD REGION. 



Brunswick county has in its western part 4,000 acres of white 

 cedar land, most of it located along Juniper creek, Green swamp 

 and its ramifications, and 20,000 acres of excellent cypress and 

 loblolly pine lands which have never been lumbered. The lum- 

 bered districts lie in the northern part of the county along the 

 W. C. & A. R. R. and in the northern arms of the Green swamp, 

 which are tributary to the Cape Fear river. Much timber has 

 also been rafted out by way of Waccamaw river from the extreme 

 western part of the county to the mills at Georgetown, S. C. The 

 oak lands bordering the numerous swamps are equal in area to 

 the cypress lands and are destined to become very valuable. The 

 entire swamp area is 166,000 acres, one-half of which is gum 



