TJIE LUMBER INDUSTRY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. Ill 



The output is at least one-tenth less than if would have been 

 under normal trade conditions, since 107 mills, with an output of 

 230,000,000 feet, board measure, reported an average idleness of 

 seven weeks. Many mills also that did not shut down consider- 

 ably reduced their output during a part of the year. The unprece- 

 dented freeze during the month of January, 1893, caused many 

 mills dependent upon the water-courses for their supply or opera- 

 tion to shut down for several weeks. The output would otherwise 

 have been over 500,000,000 feet. 



In the preceding statement the output for the respective counties 

 does not necessarily mean that the timber was produced in them, 

 but merely that it was manufactured in these counties. Camden, 

 Chow^an and Perquimans counties now produce but a small pro- 

 portion of the timber manufactured in them ; it comes from Bertie, 

 up the Chowan river, and the counties lying on the southern side 

 of Albemarle sound. 



The proportion of timber produced by individual counties is 

 more nearly represented by a subsequent table showing the amounts 

 of timber and timbered lands held by logging and milling com- 

 panies in each county, though there are given no actual figures of 

 the production of timber by counties. There are only a few towns 

 in the State which have a large annual output, the mills in gen- 

 eral being scattered through the timbered districts. 



The relative rank, capital invested, yearly capacity, output and 

 value of output of the three producing points, for 1893, were as 

 follows : 



Capital, Ouiput, etc., at Different Lumber Marketi^ in Eastern Nortli Carolina, 1893. 



Towns. 



Rank. 



No. of es- 

 tablish- 

 ments. 



Capital. 



Output for 

 1893, feet, 

 board meas- 

 ure. 



Yearly ca- 

 pacity. 



Value of out- 

 pat, 1893. 



Wilmington 



NewbernJ 



Washington 



1 



2 

 3 



8 

 9 

 7 



$530,000^1 36,000,000 

 385,000 1 38,000,000 

 165,000 21,000,000 



48,000,000 

 51,000,000 

 27,000,000 



$425,0001 

 350,000 

 188,000 



*Not full, partly based on a bulletin of the U. S. Census of 1890. 

 tPartly taken from the custom-house records of Wilmington. 

 Ilncludes James City, a village on the oppo.site side of the Trent river. 



