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PREFACE. 



more fully in future publications of the Survey, now in prepara- 

 tion. The object of the present report is to describe briefly the 

 present condition of the forests and forest lands of this region. The 

 capital invested in the lumber industr}^ in Eastern North Carolina 

 in 1893 amounted to $4,690,000, and more than 8,000 men were 

 regularly employed in connection with the 323 establishments. 

 The market value of the forests products of this region for 1893, 

 including naval stores, but not including tire-wood nor fencing 

 material, amounted to $7,320,000. Including these latter items 

 the aggregate annual value of the forest products of the region 

 will probably reach $12,000,000. Certainly this is an industry the 

 future maintenance of which deserves the earnest consideration of. 

 the State and her individual citizens. 



The Survey is indebted to many lumbermen, naval store dealers 

 and manufacturers, and to many other citizens in every part of this 

 region for their kind co-operation in the work of collecting infor- 

 mation for this Report, and I beg to assure them that their kind- 

 ness and hospitality have been highly appreciated. 



J. A. Holmes, 

 State Geologist. 



