The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-16
PREPARING FOR NEXT YEAR
TurpentinG Operators Arranging With
the Factors.

They Do Not Say Much About the Dis
solution Of the General Association.
Both Operators and Factors Ex-
pecting a Big Crop-The Price Of
Labor to Be Gut as Low as Possible
and Every Effort Made to Secure
Large Crop Of High Grade Rosin.
There were a number Of turpentine OPP
orators in the city yesterday, and a good
many more came in on the trains last
night. There will be two or three times
as many in the city to-day as there were
Tuesday at the meeting which dissolved
the Turpentine Operators Association.
The object of the presence of so many
operators in the city is to arrange for
next years operations, and to make new
contracts with the factors for advances
and supplies during the coming year. The
general activity which has man.
ifested itself among the operotors
is not discouraged by the factors. The
belief is that the conditions will be
much more favorable next year to the
business than during the year Just ended,
and both factors and operators want TO
see large crops produced The better
prices which have prevailed during the
last two months have put all interested in
good spirits, and the feeling is general
that things are on the upward trend.
There are good many accounts which
are not closed up yet, but the operators
have not shipped in their entire product
and there is good deal OF the crop, es-
pecially rosin, still in the country.
GOOD DEAL ON HAND YET.
Those operators who are not conve-
niently situated to theorailroads are un-
able to haul in their whole crop as
speedily as it is produced, on account of
needing their teams on the farms. The
consequence is that the spirits and finer
rosins are shipped in first and the bulk of
this portion of the crop is sent to market
while the manufacturing is in
progress. Later on, during the
winter, the remainder of the crop and
the coarser grades of rosin are forwarded.
If there is no decided break in the market
most of the operators will be able to
come out even on the years accounts.
While the next crop will probably be a
large one it is not expected that it will
exceed that of 1892, which was the
largest in the history of the business. A
great deal of Old timber will be aban-
doned, as it has been found that there is
very little profit in working it, and the
operators will give their attention next
year to producing the finer grades of
rOsin and spirits as much as possible.
The operators have found that it is
necessary to come down to hard pan, and
the coming crop will probably be as
cheaply produced as any in the history of
the trade. There appears to be general
disposition to reduce the price of labor as
much as possible.
CAN'T GO MUCH LOWER.
A prominent operator said yesterday,
however, that he did not think it possible
TO reduce the price much below that of
the season just closed. Wages, he said,
ranged from S18 to SlS per month and the
labor was found to be satisfactory at
these prices. He did not believe that sat
isfactory labor can be procured at lower
prices.
The operators in the city yesterday
were not disposed to talk about the dis
bandment of the association or to hazard
any predictions as to its future reorgan-
ization. Most of them We're convinced
that the association was a good thing,
and they feel that its dissolution was
brought about by mistaken policy, led
by few men, assisted by the mistakes of
others. They have profted by their ex-
perience with the organization, but prefer
now to let all dissensions blow over, and
to consider the subject of reorganizat ton
later on. The future reorganization of
the operators may be regarded as certain
The business is confined to a limited
territory, and there is a comparatively
small number Of men engaged in it, Their
interests are identical, and while the first
association has proven unsa isfactory,
the mutual benefits of cooperation will
draw them together again. The control
of production will not be the leading feat
ure however, in the next organization.
The operators have profted by expe-
rience, and will hereafter proceed upon
conservative lines.