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FORESTS, KoilEST LANDS AND FOREST PRODUCTS. 



This, with the total number reported as employed by milling 

 companies in logging, makes 2,800 engaged in this branch of the 

 industry. The total number of hands reported as employed in the 

 entire industry, in handling the material from the stump to the 

 finished product, was 8,320. 



The rafting of timber to the mills is done by farm laborers during 

 the dull seasons of the year. The price paid at the mills for this 

 timber is from |3.75 to f5 a thousand feet, board measure, for 

 loblolly pine, and from $3 to |6 for cypress and ash, according to 

 the quality of the timber and situation of the mill. Long-leaf 

 pine brings the same prices as loblolly pine. 



THE PRODUCTION OF I.UMBER IN NORTH CAROLINA IN 1893. 



Exports of Crude Lumber. — There were operating in North 

 Carolina in 1893 three timber companies, with a capital of $40,000, 

 reported as engaged in logging for establishments in other States. 

 During the year 1893 there were exported by these and other logging 

 and milling companies logs amounting to about 110,000,000 feet, 

 board measure, to establishments in other States. This amount 

 exported was nearly one-fourth the entire amount manufactured 

 in the State. It consisted mostly of loblolly pine, with some 

 cypress, and had an estimated value in raft in this State of |500,- 

 000. It went out by way of the Chowan river, and through the 

 Dismal swamp canals and partly by rail. This timber was manu- 

 factured chiefly at Franklin, Whaleyville, Suffolk and in the 

 vicinity of Norfolk, Va. Besides this there was exported 9,800 

 cords of white cedar billets, valued at $62,000, chiefly to Philadel- 

 phia, Richmond and Norfolk. This, however, cannot begin to 

 represent the total amount shipped, since the white cedar was 

 shipped in small amounts from a great many diff'erent places, so 

 that but little knowledge could be gained from these sources about 

 tlie amounts shipped and their value. 



Recent Growth of the Lump>er Industry. — An endeavor was 

 made to ascertain the increase of capital invested in milling and the 

 increase in output since 1890, and also to find the amount of increase 

 during 1893. While the number of new plants erected since 1890 

 was gotten, the capital invested in those that had stopped run- 



