The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-10-31
NEEDFACTOR|ES
FOR TIMBER
INDUSTRY.
saTq SUPPLYING OVER 23,o0O,-
.v.y,0o0 FEET OF LUMBER
FOR PLANTS ELSEWHERE
figures TELL THE TALE
A. sncrmous Resource Of Which
This Section Doesn't Take
Full Advantage.

The South is now supplying more
tha $4,000, 900, 900 feet Of lumber
a aar for the industries of this
CO try and export. The value Of
tn, product at the mills is about
$3.50, 100000, or slightly under SIS
thousand feet. The number Of
sav mills contributing to the output
exceed 1900. The figures for 1909
81 that the cut Of hardwood was
SCI, ,825, 900 feet and the soft
wo Dis II ,o3o, ,79o 900 feet.
The above figures are exclusive Of
latl, shingles, cooperage, tanning
ext act, tanbark, eordwood, pulp
wood, wood distillation, hewed rail-
roal ties, fence posts, telegraph and
tele eohone poles, piles and other
round and hewn timbers. Statistics
for some Of these commodities have
not been compiled by States, and
for that reason figures cannot be
given separately and accurately for
the South; but if all products COM
ing from the forest were measured
and counted, the total would un-
questionaly show that the forests of
the 10 States in the table yield not
less than 5000, 900 900 feet, board
measure, yearly.
That is an enormous resource
which bounteols nature gave the
South, and the South is giving it to
the nation and to the world. About
$50 commercial tree species grow in
the South, though some are COM
paratively scarce and are not now OF
much Importance; but every one OF
them has been found serviceable
for something besides fuel, and has
a money value. A government re-
port published in 1912 on the wood
using industries of Texas listed 119
woods which grow in that State;
every one of which was found in
use in the State.
The timber of the South belongs
in two general classes; hard woods
and soft woods. The hard woods
are the broad-leaf trees, most OF
which shed their leaves in the fall.
The soft woods are needle-leaf, and
Oh y one (cypress) sheds its leaves
annually The two classes grow in
mixture to some extent, but generally
they are fairly well separated. The
great belts of cypress and pines
sN ,ep round the coast from Mary
lapl to Texas, and west of the Miss
isslppi; extend northward to Mis-
so;ri. Smaller tracts of pine, spruce
AMI hemlock occupy some of the
Appalachian submits and high
Sit pes.
some Of the hard woods extend
down to the coast and occupy part
os the flat country and the swampS
which are not much above tide level;
blt such is not the South's impor-
taNt hardwood region. 1t lies on
higher ground. i reaches the tops
Of some of the loftiest SUBMITS in
Nest Virginia and of the States
southwark to Georgia, and it covers
tie mountain sides and the rolling
hills. A belt approximately 800 miles
wide crosses east and west the States
Of Kentucky, Tennessee and the
northern portions Of Georgia, Ala
bama and Mississippi, and ends in
Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana.
The South is furnishing the rough
lumber, but Is not further manufact-
uring as much of il as it should.
Only half Of the work is being done
in the South that should be done
here. The trees are cut and CON-
verted into lumber, which is promptly
started on its way to some distant
factory to be made into furniture,
ehicIes, agricultural implements
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