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The young hickory trees
in the mountains of
North Georgia are ideal
for making buggies,
wagons, farm imple
ments, all Kinds of tool
handles and the supply
is almost inexhaustible.
One small factory in the
mountains is making
saddletrees for a large
trade in the United
States, and is shipping
to three foreign coun
tries.
Georgia long has been
a leader in the turpen
tine industry. The value
of the spirits of turpen
tine and rosin produced
in 1909 was seven mil
lion dollars, which was
a million less than in
1899.
FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
VIRGIN FOEEST, WESTERN SLOPE, FORT MOUNTAIN, MURRAY COUNTY
sides, the forests reproduce themselves faster than some who
have observed the devastation along the main highways of travel
have imagined. The fact that the manufacturers of long-leaf
pine and cypress lumber have begun in the last few years to
advertise their products extensively in newspapers and magazines
seems to indicate that the supply now tends to exceed the demand,
and there is no immediate danger of a timber famine. Our
forests will continue to be an important asset until that distant
day when all the land is occupied by fields and buildings.
The statistics for lumber cut in Georgia in 19x19 have been
given above. In the same year the State produced $101,558 worth
of laths, $921,271 worth of shingles, $6,929,000 worth of naval
stores, $138,036 worth of tanbark and tanning extract, and large
quantities of cooperage stock, veneering, crossties, poles, posts,
fence-rails, baskets, firewood, etc. The $101,888 worth of honey
and beeswax reported from Georgia in that year came partly
from cultivated plants and weeds, such as cotton and clover, but
probably mostly from the forests. Other minor forest products,
for which no statistics are obtainable, are maple syrup, fruits,
nuts, holly branches and other evergreen decorations, shade trees,
medicines and dyes.
The forests vary greatly in composition and density in different
parts of the State; and for prospective investors who are not
familiar with conditions in Georgia the following brief geograph
ical sketch will be of interest.
The sandstone and chert ridges and broad fertile valleys of
Northwest Georgia were originally covered with short-leaf pines