The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-19
port States were as follows:
Capital.

South Carolina 800. 1.056,265 5,1S7727
Tennessee .......... 2,OA,5O3 $4,000, 500
Texas ................. 1,66O,952 1862
Virginia ............. 2,122925 9,299,O46
West Virginia $500. 1,66S,920 1921 $50
Total South ...... s23, SAG, 076 Ssh, 7O2 500
Total United States. $751;, 1876, 100 sell, Gil 524
MARKED GROWTH
THAT the capital invested in the lum-
Der industry in the South in 1900 was
greater than that for the whole industry
in the United States in 1880, and that
in the twenty years the number Of es-
Establishments in the South had increased
from % per cent. to ~ per cent. of the
number in the whole country, the cap
ital from II per cent. to 20 per cent. of
the whole and the value of the products
from II per cent. to 80 per cent. of the
whole, shows clearly that the South has
made good in this field the promise it
had already given before the Interrupt
ton Of its material progress by war.
OF the total cut the number Of feet of
timber of all kinds cut in the South was
as follows by States: Maryland, 1881
600; Virginia. 954,OS9,o00; West Virginia,
$50. i52 600; North Carolina, 1,n5,97S.O 0D;
South Carolina, Asa, $4,000; Georgia, 1851,
100000; Florida, s24,S290o0; Alabama,
1,149 994, 600: Mississippi, 1,20S. 600; Lou
isiana, 12143S 600; Texas, LAG, lIS.o Oo;
Arkansas, 1865 1851 600; Tennessee, Sol
40S, 900, and kentucky, UI,2lS,OWNa stotal
of 1928 49, 900 feet.
YELLOW PINE LEADS.
1.-THE greater portion Of the Southern
cut was OF yellow pine. amounting TO
mere than 9,s71 100000 feet and represent
irg about twentyseven per cent. of all ,.'e
lumber cut in the country. ms TIMBER
of various species is found in all the
Southern States. but nine-tenths OF 1t Is
in the eastern part of North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia. in the north
ern part of Florida, in southern Alabama.
in the southern third of Mississippi, with
a strip extending almost to the northern
boundary in Southeastern and Northwest
ern Louisiana in Northeastern Texas and
in Southern Arkansas. the area in the
South Atlantic and Gulf States yielding
to low marshy, cypress bearing strips
near the coast and extending into the
hardwood forests of the interior. The cy
press cut in the census year was 495. 900 600
feet of which $50 663 900 were in Louisiana.
Tennessee led in the South in its cut of
White oak. 40S.SS3.O00. with Kentucky sec
ond 500. SO4. COO, and West Virginia third,
G3,:,, 46g, 900 feet.
THE yellow pine area has upon it. it
is estimated. about 100000 100000 feet of
standing timber. 1t constitutes great
part of the wooded area of the South.
though it must not be understood that
the trees of ali that area necessarily con-
tain merchantable timber.
In this wooded area OF the South is.
great variety of timber. an index to
which was given as result Of the exam
nation made In the moutaln region OF
Western North Carolina, embraced in the
,I,,,l ,jr,,, fnrnE
reserve Representatives Of the United
States Geological Survey found in that re-
eion a cotal stand of 1860 00o feet Of
oak. chestnut, white pine, hemlock.
spruce poplar. ash. cherry, cucumber.
peawocsl, buckeye linnwood, black gum.
beech, birch, maple. hickory. locust, black
pine short leaf pine and other species.
GREAT SOURCES OF WEALTH.
These few facts reveal something OF
a great source of wealth for the South,
of the progress made in developing it,
and yet Of a possible danger. knowl-
edge that there is quite a body of IN
touched white pine in the most elevated
portions of West Virginia. and that there
is enough yellow pine standing in all the
South to bear for thirty-three years an
annual cutting equal to that of 1900. is
quite satisfactory to persons who look
only to-day, or the immediate tomorrow
But when it is considered that the cut
in 1900 of Southern yellow pine was A.
200. 100000 more than the cut of white
pine in Michigan, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa, the home of the white pine indus
try the mind is directed in warning to
the lumber history of the lake region
shown by the depletion of the timber in
Michigan and the inroads upon it in Wis
consin as the industry has moved to-
ward Minnesota. While in Michigan the
increase in capital during the twenty
wears has been from $50 260,i2S to SCI, 49,
sGS the value of the output has increased
only from 53,449,92S to So, 200 so In
creases in capital in the other States
have been greater in proportion than
the increase in the value of products
In Minnesota the capital has increased
from s6.Tl.14o TO S52,oe592S, and the value
of the output from s1,366O3S to $685.
creased from s19S24.CS9 to SIT 1856 223 and
the value of the products from s17,952,-
347. to 57.634sl6. lnthe three States the
total capital has trebled. while the value
Of the products has hardly doubled In
q study of the figures for these great
lumber States is the lesson for the South.
IF is that in spite of vast resources there
is a way of numbering that must ex-
haust them, and that instead of handling
Southern yellow pine or any other South
:ern timber as the lake white pine has
been handled, it is for the South one of
the great timber reserves of the country.
to handle its forests upon economic and
scientific principles. SO that the area OF
its merchandise timber may remain
pca ctically the same forever
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