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industries for counties, but according to the report of the State Commissioner of Agriculture for 1913-14 there were in the 15 counties of central Florida at that time 102 sawmills and 51 turpentine stills. The State census of 1915 found in 13 counties (no returns on this point having been received from Osceola and Polk) 109 sawmills, with an average capital of $25,ooo and 34.2 employees each, and 77 turpentine stills, with $31,500 capital and 33.9 employees each.
 From a mimeographed directory of Florida sawmills made by the United Sawmills Co. of New Orleans and Atlanta early in 1915 the following statistics of the number and average capacity (in board feet per day) of the mills of central Florida, by regions, have been derived.
 TABLE 21
Number and Average, Daily Capacity of Sawmills in Central Florida, 1915, by Regions.
 REGIONS No. Capacity
 1. West coast islands ---0----------------- i.------ 0 ---....
 2. Gulf hammock region ------------------------------------ 7 65,700
 3. Middle Florida flatwoods ------------------------------- 0 --4. Lime-sink region .--------------------------------------- 44 31,136
 5. Middle Florida hammock belt ----------------------------- 5 20,000
 6. Hernando hammock belt ---------------------------------- 7 10,000
 7. Lake region ------------------------------------------- 36 30,555
 S. Southwestern flatwoods --------------------------------- 20 42,500
 9. Southeastern flatwoods ---------------------------------- 10 18.500
 10. East coast strip -----------------------.-- 1 10,000
 Whole area .. --------------------------------- 11301 31,962

 Of course these figures should not be taken literally, for no doubt some. very small mills, which would bring down the average capacity, were overlooked; and a mill near the edge of a region might get some or most of its timber from an adjoining region.
But it is interesting to note, that the lake region, the largest of all, has not as many sawmills as the lime-sink region, and they are a little below the average in daily capacity. The capacity seems to be roughly proportional to the density of the pine forests. Probably at least nine-tenths of the lumber is pine, but there are a few mills that specialize in cypress or hardwoods.
 Besides being sawn into lumber a good deal of the pine is worked up into veneers, used in making crates and hampers to ship