Frederick County. 



81 



acre ; and 397 acres of pine and hardwood stands, all of which are also 

 below 5,000 feet. 



Uses op the Forest. 



The 51 saw mill and timber operators reported in 1914 a lumber 

 cut of 809,965 cubic feet, having a value at points of production of 

 $179,004. Of this, $130,894 represented the cut of lumber alone, with 

 shingles, cordwood, railroad ties, pulpwood, lath, tanbark, piling, and 

 export logs following in the order given. Portable mills are widely 

 used in Frederick County, and it would seem that the timbered acreas 

 are being thoroughly gone over for merchantable material. 



In addition to these woods activities, there is considerable manu- 

 facturing and selling of lumber and various forest products in and 

 around Frederick. Two yards and planing mills are located at Fred- 

 erick, with only lumber yards at Adamstown, Brunswick, Burkitts- 

 ville, Emmitsburg, Thurmont, Walkersville, and Woodsboro. There 

 are also in Brunswick two casket manufactories, and in Frederick City 

 a tannery, a silo plant, and a fibre-brush factory, these different in- 

 dustries, all told, handling annually 14,500,000 board feet of wood, and 

 employing an average of 460 men. The 51 sawmill and other opera- 

 tors produce but 7,283,000 board feet of lumber, one-half the con- 

 sumption of the Coimty, so that opportunities evidently exist for de- 

 veloping the local output. Excellent highways traverse Frederick 

 County, which, with the 18 miles of trolley lines and the 90 miles of 

 railway, combine to make timber accessible in all sections of the 

 county. 



Frederick County, as has already been stated, is highly developed 

 along agricultural lines. The land is fertile and well-farmed, and 

 only in the forest areas is there much need of improved methods of 

 management. These, however, have been continuously damaged by 

 forest fires for many years. Their protection and improved manage- 

 ment would add substantially to the whole County's productiveness 

 and revenues. 



