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Appropriations .- The dates, amounts, and the aggregate of appropriations by the Fed- eral Government for improvement of this stream, as compiled to March 4, 1915, in ap- propriations for Rivers and Harbors (House Doc. 1491, 63d Cong., 3d sess., 1916), are shown in the appended table:
Chattanooga, Tenn., to Riverton, Ala .-
Open-channel work and Muscle Shoals im- provement-
Mar. 2, 1827 (survey) $ 200.00
June 9, 1860 (claim)
1,350.00
July 25, 1868.
85,000.00
Apr. 10, 1869
5,095.00
July 11, 1870.
45,000.00
June 10, 1872.
50,000.00
June 23, 1874.
100,000.00
Mar. 3, 1875.
360,000.00
Aug. 14, 1876
255,000.00
June 18, 1878
300,000.00
Jan. 13, 1879
101,536.72
Mar. 3, 1879. 210,000.00
June 14, 1880
300,000.00
Mar. 3, 1881.
250,000.00
Mar. 3, 1873.
100,000.00
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Aug. 2, 1882.
250,000.00
Mar. 2, 1907 200,000.00
July 5, 1884.
350,000.00
Mar. 4, 1907. 100,000.00
Aug. , 1886 262,500.00
Aug. 11, 1888
250,000.00
Mar. 4, 1909.
120,000.00
Sept. 19, 1890
300,000.00
June 25, 1910. 100,000.00
Transferred from Chattanooga to Riverton, open-channel
improvement
5,000.00
June 3, 1896 ..
50,000.00
Mar. 3, 1899.
35,000.00
June 6, 1900 (emergency allot- ment )
6,000.00
June 13, 1902 (emergency al- lotment)
2,853.40
1912.
13,576.50
Mar. 3, 1905
15,000.00
1913.
34,500.00
Mar. 2, 1907.
205,000.00
Mar. 3, 1909 (allotment) .
5,000.00
June 25, 1910.
310,000.00
Feb. 27, 1911
130,000.00
Mar. 4, 1913.
485,000.00
Oct. 2, 1914.
110,000.00
Mar. 4, 1915.
100,000.00
Aug. 18, 1894.
125,000.00
Mar. 3, 1899
100,000.00
June 13, 1902.
19,000.00
June 13, 1902 (emergency al- lotment) 3,497.74
Mar. 3, 1905.
30,000.00
Mar. 3, 1905 (emergency al- lotment)
4,700.00
Mar. 2, 1907.
40,000.00
Mar. 3, 1909 (allotment)
25,000.00
Mar. 3, 1909 (emergency al- lotment)
6,134.00
June 25, 1910
150,000.00
Feb. 27, 1911
80,000.00
July 25, 1912
110,000.00
Mar. 4, 1913.
110,000.00
Oct. 2, 1914. 123,000.00
Mar. 4, 1915.
251,000.00
1896
66,021.78
1898.
59,284.97
1899.
65,281.03
1900
65,554.18
1901.
76,201.22
1902
85,186.52
1903.
63,221.87
1904
55,146.57
1905
49,105.02
1907.
62,961.48
1908.
53,443.56
1909
51,420.87
1910
40,852.54
1911
52,219.36
1912
46,393.14
1914.
48,701.94
1915 (to Mar. 4)
31,251.51
1,390,643.55
Colbert Shoals Canal-
150,000.00
Sept. 9, 1890.
300,000.00
July 13, 1892.
245,000.00
Aug. 14, 1894.
Mar. 3, 1899. 100,000.00
June 13, 1902.
200,000.00
Mar. 3, 1903.
[ 200,000.00
Mar. 3, 1905.
50,000.00
June 30, 1906
100,000.00
1,227,331.74
Grand Total. . $12,111,964.06
See Canals; Internal Improvements; Mus- cle Shoals; River and Drainage Systems; River and Harbor Improvements; Steamboat Navigation; Tennessee Valley; Water Power.
REFERENCES .- U. S. Chief of Engineers, An-
nual report, 1889, App. CC, pp. 1819-1830; Ibid, 1891, App. EE, pp. 2252-2259; Ibid, 1895, App. BB, pp. 2277-2313; Tennessee River from Elk River Shoals to Florence railway bridge in Ala- bama, H. Doc. 781, 60th Cong., 1st sess .; Ten- nessee River, Tenn., Ala., and Ky., Ibid., 360, 62d Cong., 2d sess .; Waterway between Ten- nessee and Tombigbee Rivers in the State of Mississippi, Ibid, 218, 63d Cong., 1st sess .; U. S. Chief of Engineers, Report of the Board of En- gineers for Rivers and Harbors, on Tennessee River between Browns Island and the Florence railway bridge [Muscle Shoals], (Com. on Riv- ers and Harbors, Doc. 20, 63d Cong. 2d. sess.) ; "Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals," in Hear- ings before House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Dec. 12, 1914; U. S. Chief of Engi- neers, Reports on Tennessee River between Brown's Island and Florence, 1916 (H. Doc. 1262, 64th Cong., 1st sess.) ; McCalley, Valley regions of Alabama, Pt. 1, Tennessee Valley, (Geol. Survey of Ala., Special report, 8, 1896) ; Hall, Water powers of Alabama (U. S. Geol
1891.
35,686.53
1892.
51,262.13
1893.
58,735.63
1894.
64,891.41
1895.
75,409.71
1897
65,333.85
Canal
5,000.00
Transferred under authority of
the act of Mar. 4, 1915.
150,000.00
155,000.00
5,179,535.12
Operating and care of Muscle Shoals Canal- Fiscal year ending June 30-
14,313.45
82,016.45
Below Riverton-
Sept. 19, 1890 25,000.00
July 13, 1892.
25,000.00
1914. 23,021.54
1915 (to Mar. 4) 10,918.41
2,313,000.00
Operating and care of Colbert Shoals Canal- Fiscal year ending June 30-
July 13, 1892
175,000.00
Aug. 18, 1894.
30,000.00
100,000.00
July 25, 1912.
5,334,535.12
Transferred to Colbert Shoals
1906
52,763.28
1913.
350,000.00
May 27, 1908. 93,000.00
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Survey, Water supply papers 107, 1904), pp. 180- 207; Berney, Handbook, (1892), pp. 523-529; L. M. Pindell, Tennessee River and flood sys- tem, 1879-1895; Tenn. River Improvement Assn., Souvenir, Visit to the Tennessee River [1915]; and Graphic statistics relating to the Muscle Shoals project (n. d.) ; Muscle Shoals Assn., America's Gibraltar-Muscle Shoals (1916) ; U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 4, p. 290; Acts, 1828-29, p. 103; 1829-30, pp. 3-6; 1830-31, pp. 9-11, 12, 69; 1831-32, p. 42; 1832-33, p. 58; 1836-37, pp. 78, 109.
TENNESSEE VALLEY. The great valley embracing all of Alabama which is drained by the Tennessee River and its tributaries, an area of about 6,000 square miles. Geologic- ally, it is not so varied, in structure and num- ber of formations, as the Coosa Valley (q. v.). Its strata are comparatively level and show no evidences of having been changed by heat or pressure, and are all sedimentary. The formations exposed are (1) lower Silurian, (2) upper Silurian, (3) Devonian, (4) lower Subcarboniferous, (5) upper Subcarbonifer- ous, (6) Carboniferous, (7) Cretaceous, and (8) Tertiary. The lower Silurian, the oldest formation in the valley, is exposed only along the central portion of the Brown and Blounts- ville Valley (q. v.), and along the larger wa- tercourses. The upper Silurian is repre- sented by the Red Mountain or Clinton group, and comprises all of the strata in the valley between the Trenton (Nashville) and the De- vonian rocks. The Devonian black shale crops out on the larger creeks of Lauderdale, Limestone and Madison Counties, near the State line, and in the Brown and Blountsville Valley.
The lower Subcarboniferous formation covers about 2,200 square miles of surface area in the valley. It gives rise to the roll- ing red lands-Tuscumbia or St. Louis lime- stone and the level barrens-Lauderdale or Keokuk chert. The upper Subcarboniferous formation covers an area in the valley of 1,900 square miles. It is composed of lime- stones with some sandstones and shales and a little chert. The limestones are highly fos- siliferous. This formation, though its out- crops are mainly on the steep mountain sides, gives rise to some fine farm lands that are es- pecially well adapted for growing grains and grasses. The Carboniferous formation, or coal measures, is confined to the broad, flat tops of the Cumberland, Raccoon, and Sand Mountains, covering a region about 1,350 square miles in extent.
The Cretaceous, represented by the Tusca- loosa group, occurs only in the western part of the valley, near the Mississippi line. The Tertiary, represented by the Lafayette for- mation, covers nearly 1,000 square miles of surface area in the region next to the Mis- sissippi line. It is made up of red and light sandy loams, of orange and white sands, of rounded chert and quartz pebbles, and of fer- ruginous sandstones and conglomerates.
Geography and Topography .- The Tennes- see Valley includes all, or the major portion, of Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison, Jackson,
Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence, Morgan, and Marshall Counties, and the northeastern part of Blount County. Although it is not so var- ied in its topographical features and contains no such mineral wealth as the Coosa Valley, yet, in many respects, it is one of the most interesting portions of the State. It possesses some of the finest scenery, and no other sec- tion is richer in all that goes to make life de- sirable and home attractive. Its climate is salubrious; atmosphere pure; its soils varied and fertile; and its waters unexcelled. Its area, from 500 to 1,800 feet above sea level, lies between latitude 33 degrees 50 minutes and 35 degrees.
The valley in certain sections is extremely rugged; in others, level and plain-like; and in others still, it is gently rolling. It has the highest mountains and the deepest valleys in the State, the former reaching an altitude of 2,000 feet above sea level and 1,200 feet above the level of the adjacent valleys. The principal topographical features or natural divisions are, the level barrens or highlands in the northwest corner of the State, the roll- ing redlands or lowlands to the west of the Huntsville meridian, the high mountain spurs and knobs of the Cumberland Plateau east of the Huntsville meridian, the Little Moun- tain, the Moulton and Russellville Valley, the Brown and Blountsville Valley, and the Sand and Raccoon Mountains.
Soils and Agriculture .- The soils of the Tennessee Valley are diverse and well suited both to agriculture and horticulture. They vary from a very light and poor siliceous soil on the highlands to a very dark and rich loam in the lowlands. Many portions of the re- gion, particularly the Cumberland Plateau, are still covered by forests of hardwood- red cedar, black walnut, chestnut oak, gum, poplar, beech, etc.
The principal agricultural productions of the valley are corn and cotton, though both the soil and the climate are suitable for a great diversity of crops, including oats, wheat, barley, rye, millet, clover, timothy, red top, field and ground peas, Irish and sweet potatoes, sorghum, turnips, melons, pumpkins, and practically all other vegeta- bles, berries and fruits.
Mineral Resources .- Its most important mineral substances are coal, iron ores, man- ganese ore, aspbaltum, petroleum, natural gas, nitre and bat guano, copperas, alum, ep- som salts, marbles, building stones, paving stones, curbing stones, millstones, grind- stones, whetstones, lime-burning and fluxing rocks, road and ballast materials, clays, hy- draulic-cement rocks and sand, tripoli or polishing powder, and mineral water.
Mineral springs occur in nearly all parts of the valley, though principally in outcrops of the Devonian black shale and in the coal measures. Some of them have quite a reputa- tion for their medicinal properties. They are mostly chalybeate and sulphur springs, but other mineral constituents are often present. Some of the best known are the Pettusville Spring (chalybeate) in the northern part of Limestone County; the Woolley or Millhouse
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Spring (sulphur) on Limestone Creek, and Sulphur Spring on Redus Creek, Limestone County; and the Johnson Well (sulphur) near Meridianville, Madison County. Epsom salts, soda, and alum springs are also numer- ous. The Bailey Springs, a group of several springs in Lauderdale County, are the most famous of these. Mineral-tar springs abound in the upper Subcarboniferous strata of the Russellville and Moulton Valley. The best known probably are the two springs on Capps Creek in the southern part of Lawrence County, which were known to the hunters and early settlers as deer licks, and later were much resorted to for their medicinal qualities. Besides the foregoing, there are many lime- stone springs, of which the two most famous are the "Big Springs" at Huntsville and Tuscumbia.
Settlement .- The earliest settlers of the Tennessee Valley came from Tennessee, Vir- ginia, and North Carolina. One of the earli- est parties of immigrants came down Elk River (q. v.) in canoes from Tennessee about the year 1807. Immigrants of similar stocks have since contributed largely to the popula- tion of the valley and their descendants sur- vive in its leaders in every walk of life.
See sketches of counties and towns located in the valley.
REFERENCES .- McCalley, Valley regions of Ala- bama, Pt. 1, Tennessee Valley region (Geol. Sur- vey of Ala., Special report 8, 1896) ; Smith, Un- derground water resources of Alabama (Ibid, Monograph 6, 1907), pp. 100-107; Geol. Survey of Ala., Report, 1881 and 1882 (1883), pp. 407-436; Berney, Handbook (1892), pp. 432-435; Betts, Early history of Huntsville (1916); Northern Alabama (1888); Bailey, Cyclopedia of Ameri- can agriculture (1909), vol. i, pp. 56-57; and Cyclopedia of American horticulture (1909), vol. i, pp. 39-40.
TENNESSEE VALLEY RAIL ROAD COM- PANY. See Memphis and Charleston Rail- road Company.
TENSAS. A small coast tribe of the Natchez group, or linguistic stock. These Indians were living on Lake St. Joseph, Ten- sas Parish, La., in 1682 when they were vis- ited by La Salle and Tonti. They were again visited by Tonti in 1686, and the third time in 1690. In 1698 a mission was established among the Tensas, in charge of Father De Montigny. At that date they numbered about 700. The next year Father De Mon- tigny left them to labor among their kinsmen, the Natchez. From the positive statements made by him and by St. Cosme, the Tensas and Natchez spoke the same language.
In 1706, the Tensas were forced to abandon their ancient homes by the hostile Chicka- saws and Yazoos. They found a welcome in the Bayou Goula Village, in the present lber- ville Parish, La., but soon afterward they arose against their unsuspecting hosts, slew nearly all of them and took possession of their village. Later they fled southward and formed a settlement on the right bank of the Mississippi. Still later, on account of wars
with the Houmas, they moved to Bayou Man- shac, whence in 1715 they were carried by the French to Mobile, and a place assigned to them two leagues above the fort. They sub- sequently moved across the river, on which they resided, and to which their name was given. Here they so increased that they numbered 100 cabins. They never became Christianized, but always adhered strongly to their ancestral worship. In 1764, after very nearly a half century in what is now Alabama, they followed their French friends across the Mississippi River, and again settled in Louisiana.
REFERENCES .- Margry, Decouvertes (1876), vol. 1, pp. 567, 600-602; Ibid (1878), vol. 3, p. 556; French, Historical Collections of Lou- isiana (1846), vol. 1, p. 62; Swanton, Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Coast (Bureau of American Eth- nology, Bulletin 43, 1911), pp. 21, 22, 264, 265, 270-272.
TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT. See Ala- bama Territory; Mississippi Territory.
TESTING LABORATORY, THE STATE. See University of Alabama.
THANKSGIVING DAY. See Special Days.
THLOBLOCCO. An Upper Creek town in Macon County, on Thloblocco Creek, a north- eastern tributary to Cubahatchee Creek and about four miles east of the Montgomery to Tuskegee Highway. Little history of the town is known.
A mound and some aboriginal evidences, now practically obliterated, are to be seen here.
REFERENCES .- Miscellaneous data in Alabama Department of Archives and History.
THOMASTON. Post office and station on the Myrtlewood branch of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, in the east-central part of Marengo County, about 15 miles east of Lin- den. Altitude: 300 feet. Population: 1910- 700. It has a privately owned electric light plant, a $12,000 county high school building, a $5,000 city school building, a public park and lake, and an everflowing artesian well 1,100 feet deep. The Planters' Bank & Trust Co. (State), is its only banking institution. Its industries consist of a cotton ginnery and warehouse, a cottonseed oil plant, a brick- works, an ice factory, 2 gristmills, 2 wood- working plants, 3 blacksmith shops, and a lumber mill.
It was named for the founder, Dr. C. B. Thomas, who owned the land on which it is situated. The platting of the site, and the promoting of its settlement were handled by the Marengo Improvement Co., which was composed of Dr. Thomas, John Wanamaker and ex-Gov. Stone of Philadelphia, Pa. Among the early settlers were the Thomas Chapman, Fox, Buck McNeill, Anderson, Moseley, Hollis, and Golden families.
REFERENCE .- Manuscript data in the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
CAMP SHERIDAN HOSTESS HOUSE, MONTGOMERY, CONVALESCENT SOLDIERS ENJOYING A TOUCH OF HOME LIFE, 1918
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THOMASVILLE. Post office and station on the Southern Railway, in the northeast corner of Clarke County, secs. 23 and 24, T. 11, R. 3 E., 18 miles northeast of Grove Hill. It is situated on the watershed between the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers. Altitude: 289 feet. Population: 1900-686; 1912- 1,181. The Farmers Bank & Trust Co., is its only bank. The community existed before the Indians left the State. It is situated in what is known as "Choctaw Corners," or the line between the lands of the Choctaw and Creek Nations. Robert Mott and Thomas Vick were the first settlers. It is on the Jackson military road, and Jackson and his army halted at the spring which is now within the limits of the town. The town was estab- lished July 4, 1887, and named for one of the builders of the railroad.
REFERENCE .- Manuscript data in the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
THOMPSON: Post office and station on the Central of Georgia Railway, in northern part of Bullock County, on Bughall Creek, 7 miles west of Union Springs. Altitude: 289 feet. Population: 1880-300; 1900-145; 1910-263. It was settled in the early years of the State by the Thompson, Pickett, and Jones families, all large slave owners and planters.
REFERENCE .- Manuscript data in the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
THORSBY. Post office and incorporated town in the central part of Chilton County, on the main line of the Louisville & Nash- ville Railroad, about 10 miles north of Clan- ton. Population: 1910-426. The Bulletin of Thorsby Institute, a bimonthly, estab- lished in 1910, is published there. Its indus- tries are a gristmill, a sawmill, and the rais- ing and shipping of strawberries both to the southern and the northern markets.
REFERENCE .- Manuscript data in the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
THORSBY NORMAL AND BUSINESS COLLEGE. See Commercial Education.
THREE PER CENT FUND. See Two and Three Per Cent Fund.
TICK ERADICATION. The work of eradicating cattle ticks is carried on by the live stock sanitary board in cooperation with the authorities of the different counties, under enactments of the legislature of 1915. An act of March 5, provides the method of submitting to the voters of each county the question whether or not tick eradication shall be undertaken in that county. A peti- tion of one-fourth of the qualified electors of the county is prerequisite to the calling of an election, and the question cannot be voted on oftener than once every two years. On September 2, this act was amended by the addition of the provision, "that nothing in this act shall be construed to require that an election be held for the purpose of taking
up the work of tick eradication in those coun- ties in which such work is now being con- ducted by order of the board of revenue, courts of county commissioners, or other like governing bodies of any such county, and by order of the State live stock sanitary board heretofore made. And such counties in which such work is now being conducted shall be required to hold an election as pro- vided under this act, and the provisions of the law relating to such work shall be appli- cable to such counties without holding an election as provided for herein." By act March 24, $25,000 per annum for four years was appropriated for the work, hut the State's total expenditure in any county is restricted to an amount equal to the expenditure of the county itself for the same purpose. An act of September 2, empowered the boards of revenue, courts of county commissioners, or other like governing bodies of the differ- ent counties to make appropriations for the purpose of constructing and maintaining dip- ping vats for use in tick eradication, and to make rules regulating the establishment and use of such vats.
Genesis .- Tick eradication work was be- gun in the State during the year 1907, under authority of the act of March 12, establish- ing the live stock sanitary board. The first work was done in Baldwin County. A pre- liminary canvass of the county was made by Dr. Robbins, of the Bureau of animal indus- try, and Dr. I. S. McAdory, both working under the provisions of the Alabama law. The purpose of the canvass was to inform the people of the methods and plans pro- posed for tick eradication and to discover infested cattle and premises. Upon its com- pletion, a meeting of the farmers was called to decide whether they wanted the work to be continued in the county or not. The deci- sion was against its continuance. About the same time the work was taken up in Limestone and Madison Counties, and both of them would have been wholly freed of cattle ticks within a short time if the law had not been so amended as to prohibit operations in counties which do not have stock laws apply- ing to more than half their territory. In 1908 the State and Government authorities adopted and announced the policy of work- Ing only in counties which would help by furnishing one or more inspectors to assist them. This policy continued until the pas- sage of the law of March 5, 1915, cited above, imposing upon the people of the counties the duty of choosing by special elections whether or not they should participate in the benefits of the Government and State eradi- cation work.
In 1920 there were 503,257 herds contain- ing 3,153,613 head of cattle dipped and in- spected for cattle ticks. During the year 4,210 square miles of Alabama's tick infested area was released from Federal quarantine. About 2,136 square miles in Escambia, Jef- ferson and Mobile Counties had to be requar- antined for lack of proper cooperation in the work; resulting in the reinfestation of these
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areas. By January, 1921, the whole area of the state was operating under the law and the greater part was tick free.
See Veterinarian, the State.
REFERENCE .- Bureau of Animal Industry, Re- ports; State Veterinarian, Reports.
TIMBER BELT. The timber belt of Ala- bama at present so called on account of the ratio of its heavily timbered to its total acre- age, lies south of the black belt, extending entirely across the lower one-third of the State. The name is indicative of its principal characteristic, namely, a magnificent growth of long- and short-leaf pine timber. It in- cludes all or the major portion of Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clark, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Escambia, Gen- eva, Houston, Mobile, Monroe, Pickens, Wash- ington, and Wilcox Counties, a total area of approximately 16,535. square miles, or 10,- 582,400 acres. Some of the foregoing coun- ties are also included in the black belt, cane- brake, and wiregrass sections, but as more than half of the area is at present forested and formerly a much larger proportion of it was covered with timber, they are included in the timber belt.
The area above described does not, how- ever, by any means represent the whole of the timber resources of the State. There are sev- eral other regions, comprising probably nearly 20,000 square miles, which are still more or less heavily forested. The Tennessee Valley, containing about 4,900 square miles, at one time was practically one great forest of hard- wood and red cedar. There was never any pine in the valley, but it has been and still is known as the hardwood section of the State. The coal region, or mineral district, compris- ing about 6,400 square miles, is more or less heavily timbered to the extent of three-fourths of its area! The Piedmont Plateau, contain- ing approximately 5,450 square miles, is still a timbered country in about half its area. However, by far the larger part of the wholly uncut forests of the State is included within the limits of the section first above described as the timber belt. While the most common, and probably the most valuable, timber of the timber helt consists of the two varieties of pine, there are large quantities of various other trees. Among the most plentiful and best-known varieties are cypress, sweet gum, beech, magnolia, cedar, ash, walnut, and hick- ory.
Subsections .- Within the timber belt, as described above, are included three smaller areas which have sufficiently distinct charac- teristics to set them off as separate sections. The south western pine hills, a practically un- inhabited region, bordering on the coast strip, and including the Mobile Delta, contains about 5,550 square miles. It is the most typical timber region in the entire timber belt, about four-fifths of its area being heavily forested. The section known as the southern red hills includes two narrow belts along its edges- the post oak flatwoods on the north, and the lime hills on the southwest, containing alto- gether about 9,635 square miles. About 62
per cent of its area is still forested. As indi- cated, the commonest trees are the pines, long-leaf, short-leaf, spruce and loblolly. The central pine belt covers 7,450 square miles. It extends entirely across the State to the north of and immediately adjoining the black belt. It traverses, from east to west, Russell, Macon, Montgomery, Autauga, Perry, Hale, Greene and Pickens Counties. About three- fourths of its area is still wooded, but most of it has been considerably cut over. There are many varieties of trees in it, but pines of the various kinds greatly predominate, making up probably more than 40 per cent of the whole. Among others there are con- siderable quantities of bay, beech, poplar, red maple, water oak, white oak, post oak and red oak. The lime sink, or wiregrass, sec- tion contains 1,350 square miles, in the south- eastern corner of the State. It was once al- most as heavily timbered as any other sec- tion, but has been deforested to a consider- able extent.
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