Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28
NAVAL. STORES.
What Our Northern contemporaries
Know About TurPcntfEo EarM-

ing.
| Under the above head well writer
editorial appears ins the 4mcricaf
Grocer, of the 18th inst, published al
| New York, from which we take the fol
| lowing extract "a box or cup is cut
in the tree nearly two feet from the
| ground, from II to II inches across,
81 deep, and 3 to 81 through thetree ,
! We know that this statement will pro.
duee smile on the faces of orr tur-
| pentino makers. We should think
| that Il box of the above mentioned size
| would hold gallon, and that it would
take but few of them, full Of turpan-
tine, to fill barrel. We have fro-
quently seen three and four boxes
cut in one tree, but we don't think our
turpentinc farmers would like to cut
as many as two Of the above mentioned
size in their trees. If they did they
would soon have none to "chip. %
And we hardly think they would con
sent to have them cut two feet from
the ground either. A "Guart box" is
as large as is usually cut in this coun-
ty, and they will not average even that.
We have on several occasions been o.
unused at the a7aodtts o3)crdndi of tur-
pentine making, as described by somo
OF our Northern contemporaries. We
rccollect, at one time of having seen
i'll an illustrated newspaper a picture
representing the mode of turpentine
making, after this fashion Ahole was
bored in tho tree at the height CT n
barrel, faucet inserted, the barrel
placed under it and then allowed to re-
main until the drippings from the fau-
Get should fill it. The article above
referred to is, however, more correct
than any similar one on the same sub
lect that we have ever seen in North
ern paper. It says = "New York is
the best naval store market on this
continent, Wilmington N. G. comes
second, and Charleston, third. Seve-
raj efforts have been made to make a
market for naval stores of Savannah,
but each has proved a failure" We
are of the opinion that Wilmington
should have ranked as the best market
for naval stores, from the fact that
New York receives the greater portion
of her supplies from this port.
1t also says ''that large quantities of
naval stores were shipped to Europe,
last season, from Wilmington and
Charleston, and somefrom Fernandina.
Fla. bnt as there is generally so much
more competition amongst foreign
vessels for freight in New York than
in any other port III the United States,
this is the better point to ship from,
and naval stores can frequently be
landed in Europe, vjG New York, at n
much less cost than b. direct ship
ment from tho Southern ports" How
far this latter statement deserves credit
we are unable to say, but wo hopo and
expect that so sool as tho projected
now in course of con-
struction on cur bar, river and harbor,
arc perfected, that our pors Will be
second to mono oven in the matter
of freights. We feel constrained to be-
lieVe, that tho day is noS far distant,
when our port will afford ingress and
egress to the ships of the whole mer-
camille world. It will indeed be a
happy day for us when they can come
alongside of our wharvcs, and load
with our naval stores, lumber and
cotton, and when our railroad conncc-
tions with tho far West are completed,
take the grain of that section, and sail
direct for any foreign land that they
may seem disposed to. God speed the
lay, say We.