THE NAVAL STORE INDI'STIIV IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



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Amount ofR()i(>}(l T'unhcr {Long-leaf Pine) bi North Carolina, December, 1893. 



Bladen 3,900 acres. Nash 700 acres. 



Columbus 3,700 " Onslow 3,20U " 



Cumberland 1,300 " Pender 5,400 " 



Duplin 1,900 " Richmond 2,200 " 



Harnett (5,100 " Robeson 6,850 " • 



Johnston 200 " Sampson 876 



Jones -100 " Wake 700 " 



Lenoir 1,500 " Wayne 200 " 



Montgomery 6,('50 " 



Moore 10,700 " Total for the State... -55,876 " 



The total amount of round timber now standing is very little 

 more than was yearly being put in orchard during the period 

 between 1840 and 1870. The number of acres of round timber 

 standing in these same counties fifty years ago must have been 

 between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 acres. Much of this remaining 

 timber will probably never be boxed, being in small bodies in dis- 

 tricts where trees have ceased to be worked for turpentine. 



YOUNG GROWTH OF LONG-I.EAF PINE. 



The youDg growth of long-leaf pine may also be included along 

 with the round pine as timber which in part now, or in the near 

 future, can be worked for turpentine. But unfortuuately the acre- 

 age of second growth pine which is now, or even soon will be. of 

 sufficient size to be boxed for this purpose, is very small, and the 

 trees in such growth are scattering, consequently they are short- 

 bodied and present little uniformity as regards size or regularity of 

 growth. The figures for this acreage are based on field notes taken 

 during an examination of the pine lands during the winter of 

 1893-94. In each case they are probably much in excess of the 

 true amount of young growth of trees large enough to hold a tur- 

 pentine box. The counties iu which any large amount of youug 

 growth was observed and the approximate amounts of this in each 

 (in acres) are enumerated in the accompanying table: 



Areas of Young Growth of Long-leaf Pine in North Carolina, 1893. 

 Bladen county 3,500 acres. New Hanover 4,000 acres. 



Craven 5,000 



Cumberland 2,700 



Moore 700 



Lenoir 2,000 



Johnston 700 



Robeson 2,000 



Sampson 2,500 



Others possibly 10,000 



Total in the State 33,100 



