Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1849-03-14
NUMBER II.

at the proper place, stating that ordinary
hands will chip from eight TO ten huns
dred boxes per day, and when getting
out the turpenline dip three barrels per
day while tip Top hands will chip from
twelve 10 fifteen hundred per day, and
dip from four.to six barrels of turpentine
where their trees stand thick and theil
boxes we'll filled. | have shown you
heretofore what the producer makes to
his hand in North Carolina. Now, i'm
fair supposition, if the merchant there,
on the pur chase Of his commodity, ship
ping TO New York, paying from fifty to
seventy cents freight per barrel, with
co,cpcrage ard filled up on delivery at
New York, and paying two and a half
per cent. TO his commission merchant for
selling, makes money, ask, in all rea-
son, cannot our merchants do the same?
They certainly can, except the cost Of
shipment be much higher. Now, what
say The shipping merchants of This city
on the subject! They say the freight
on barrels from this port 10 New York
at one season Of The year is as low as
fifty, running up 10 scventy-iive cents.
Then the expense Of shipment is the
same as in North Carolina: We find
turpentino distileries established through
many parts of that Stale, producing the
spirit and rosin, and shipping 10 the
North a portion Of which we are no
doubt using daily, paying the several
profits arising Fl iom such process. Would
it not be good policy TO disli!I our tur-.
pentinc here?
Ia accordance with the opinion of
able writer's on the mandatory Of cot
ton at the North, then bought by us al
the South, we then havo the most perfect
parallel, that if the people Of the North
can buy our turpenline and distill it, and
then send it back to us at their profit 10
supply our demand, cannot this profit
be made and kept among us7 The pro,
ducer could both dislill and ship; but
would it not be well enough and the best
plan to sell the raw material here to our
own merchonts, keeping up reciprocity
of trade, thereby aiding each other in
business 5? For without unity of COM
mercial and agricultural interest no coun-
try can flourish.
The important question that remains
perhaps not satisfactorily answered, IS,
will our pines run lurpentine equal 10
the North Carolina pine. Will they
yield three fourlhs or even wo-lhirds
the quantity Of turpentine7 Even at
such producing, it is the most money
making and sure business we can en-.
gage in. And contend, without fear
of successful contradiction, that such
pine land as herein described, lying
With; within reach e such markets as Mobile
and New Orleans. is the most valuable
land we can own. For after tending
your trees six or eight yeals from your
first boxing, according to the procedure
of Carolina you backtbox the same llees,
leaving some two; inchcs,of the sap on
each side of the tree, between the old
and new box, thereby preserving The life
OF Tie tree. Then, after tending these
boxes as many years as the first, you cut
the face out ten or twelve feet high by
the axemen having bench TO stand on,
which affords an immense quantity of
the richest kind of wood, such as tar is
lun from in North Carolina.
And should you not prefer running
tar here, you have ono decided advant-
age over the Caroinians, that is in sup
plying ali immense number Of steam>
boats with wood. You will find, when
this quality of firm and rich wood is
brought into market, it will command
readily from twenty-five 10 fifty cents
more per cord than the decayed and
chafEy fuel now in use. And by keeping
the fire out Of your boxed land, it will
soon be covered over with just such
wood as you are now selling 10 steam
boats, produced by the decaying and
blowing down Of your boxes. The
range for your improving yearly, and
from ancient wisdom we learn the same
land in thirty years is.thickIy taken with
the same quality oftrees fit for use, that
posterily can enjoy the gain.
Should the inquiring and sbMber bal
anced mind in reading this aHcle, feel
a desire in any particular, to ascertain
other facts in relation to the subject, by
making it known through the medium Of
this paper, will take pleasure in res
ponding. S.
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