The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-03-21
NUMBER u.

In my last communication omitted, at
the proper place, stating Tint ordinary
hands will chip from eight 10 ten hundred
boxes per day, and when getting out the
turpenline dip hrcc barrels per day; while
Tip top hands will chip from twelve 10 fif-
I hundred per day, and dip from four 10 six
stnnd thick and their boxes we'll filed. =
have shown you heretofore what the pro
ducer makes TO his hand in North Caroli-
na. Now, in fair supposilon, ifthe mer-
chant there, on the purchase Of his com
modify, shipping to New York, paying
from fifty to seventy cents freight per
barrel, with cooperasc and filled up on
delivery Mt New York, and paying Two
und Il halfper cent. to his cornmissission
merchant for selling, makes money, ask
in all reason, canno, our merchants do The
sanc2 They certainly can, expect The
cost ofshipment be much higher. Now,
what say the shipping merchants oftlis
city on.ihe snbjcci2 They say The freight
Oh barrels from this port TO New Yorkfa,
one season of The year is as low as fifty,
running up to sevcnty-fiYc ccns.-
Then the expense ofshipmcn, is The same
as in North Carolina. We find turpen
line dislilleries established through many
parts Of That State, producing lfe spirit,
and rosin, aud shipping to the North q
portion of whicn we arc no doubt using
daily, paying the several profits arising
from such process. Would it no, be good
policy TO disill our turpen,inc here?
In accordance with The opinion orable
writer's on the manufac!ory of cotton III,
at tho North, then bought by us nt the
South, we have The most perfect pnrnllel,
that if the people Of the North can buy
our iurpentinc and dsli!l ii, and then send
it back TO us at their profit 10 supply our
demand, cannot ilIs profit be made and
KEEP, among usa The producer could
both distill and ship; but would il not be
well enough and the best plan to SCH the
raw material here to our own merchants,
Keeping upa reciprocity Of trade, thereby
aiding each other in business? For with.
out unity Of commercial and agricultural
interest no country can flourish.
The important question that remains,
perhaps not satisfactorily answered, is,
will our pines run turpentinc equal to the
North Carolina pine. Will they yield
three. .fo'lrlhs or even two thirds the atian-
thy Of turPenline2 Even at such produ.
cling, it is The most money making and
sure business we can engage in. And I
contend, without fear Unsuccessful contra.
diciion, that such pine land rs herein dcs
cribnd, lying within rcnch of such markets
as Mobile aud Now Orleans, is tho most
valuable lind we can own. For after
tending your trees six or eight years from
your first boxing, according 10 the procc.
durc Of Carolina yon box the same trees,
leaving soo,c two inches of The sap on
each side Of tho tree, between tho oh and
new box, thereby preserving tho liio of
the trees. Then, after tending these box.
es as many years rs the first, you cut the
face out ten or twelve fec, high by axe.
mon having bench to stand on, which
affords animlnense. quantity Of tho richest
kind Of wood, such as taris run from in
North Carolina,
And should you not prefer running tnr
here, yon have ono decided advantage
oyer the Carolinians, that is in supplying
an immense numberof steamboats, with