104 THE SUPPLY OF RESIN. 
pines (Pinus maritima and Pinus sylvestris), the fir (Pinus Picea), and the 
larch (Pinus Larix). 
These forests cover a surface of about 40,000 hectares (100,000 acres) 
of land, and yield annually from 12,000 to 13,000 trees, which are cut 
for timber. 
The price of a well-grown, straight, and healthy tree averages from 
15 to 16 francs ; badly -grown and ill-shaped trees, unfit for building 
purposes, are valued from 2 to 3 francs each. 
The larch tree principally grows on the summits of the mountains ; 
the pine and the fir tree extend in many localities as far down as the 
sea. The Estrel Mountains, which border the sea in the Department of 
the Var, are covered with the Pinus maritima. 
The principal forests in the Maritime Alps are situated in the com- 
munes of St. Martin de Lantosea, Valdeblora, Isola, St. Dalmas 
le Sauvage, Roubion, Clans, La Bollerie, Lonbosca, Saorgio, Le Molinet. 
Most of these forests belong to government ; some few are private 
property. A company wishing to hire these woods for collecting resin 
would have to apply to the maires of the different communes, the pro- 
prietors, and also to the Bureau de Conservation des Fordts, established 
in Nice. 
Some years ago the distillation of the resinous substances collected 
from trees was tried in the vicinity of Menton ; but the company 
working this distillery having then to contend with great difficulties 
and expense occasioned by the want of carriage-roads — all communica- 
tions in those mountainous parts being carried on by mules — and also 
to compete with the resinous productions derived from the Southern 
States of America, the attempt proved unsuccessful, and was conse- 
quently abandoned. 
At the present time, in the absence of supplies from America, which 
has quite doubled in this market the price of all resins, and with the 
many new roads which have been lately made, and are still in the course 
of construction, opening an easy access to the principal mountain com- 
munes, a company would not meet with the same obstacles and diffi- 
culties. 
The attempt, however, should not be made without previous study 
and investigation on the part of the companies which may feel disposed 
to work these forests, and a minute inquiry into the details. 
Greece. — Report by Consul Ongley, Patras. — Resin is extracted from 
the pine in various parts of the Morea. 
Okes. 
The province of Corinth produces about . . 700,000 
Ellis 
Mess 
Other parts produce about . . . . . 220,000 
„ Messenia „ ... 50,000 
In all about 1,000,000 
Equal to 1,250 tons. 
