80 



FORESTS, FOREST LANDS AND FOREST PRODUCTS. 



The number of counties which produced crude turpentine during 

 the year (1893) was 19. The amounts produced in New Hanover, 

 Nash and Wilson were very small. New Hanover producing prac- 

 tically none. The greater part of the crude turpentine which was 

 manufactured in that county was brought from South Carolina, 

 and from inland counties along the Cape Fear and Northeast Cape 

 Fear rivers. 



The total amounts of rosin and spirits of turpentine manufac- 

 tured in North Carolina and their values are shown in the accom- 

 panying table for the year 1893 and the census years ending May 

 31, 1870, 1880 and 1890 as reported by the United States Census 

 for those years. 



Quantity and Value of Rosin and Spirits Turpcnfiru Manufactured in North Carolina. 



Year. 



Number of 

 establish- 

 ments. 



Rosix. 



Spirits of Turpentine. ' 



Total value. 



i Barrels. 



i 



Value. 



Casks. 



Value. 



1870 

 1880 

 1890 

 1893 



147 

 184 

 194 

 247 



1 





1 



^2,338,309 

 1,758,488 



^ 1,705,833 

 1,752,760 











365,233 

 1 367,981 



1377,310 

 392,000 



72,888 

 75,528 



11,293,086 

 1,283,760 ' 



The total values represent the value of all products manufac- 

 tured directly from turpentine. 



Production has ceased during the past ten years in Wake, 

 Craven and Edgecombe counties. There has been an increase 

 since 1880 only in Moore and Montgomery counties, the number of 

 barrels of rosin produced in Moore county for the year (1893) being 

 considerably larger than the number produced in 1880, though 

 the value of the product is less now than at that 3ate. Mont- 

 gomery county is credited with no resinous products in the cen- 

 sus of 1880, but in 189 3 tber? were 12 distilleries operating there 

 w^hich produced 22,000 barrels of rosin. 



DECREASK IN THE PRODUCTION OF CRUDE TURPENTINE. 



The quantity of crude turpcntiue shipped is small now com- 

 pared with past shipments. All that was shipped last year went 

 direct to domestic consumers, mostly manufacturers of printing 



