The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-10-26
APract!cal Use for SaWdust.

mt impression of the question.
APract!cal Use for Sawdust.
southern Lumberman.
In the county of Columbia, State Of
Georgia, on the Georgia railroad,
twenty-five miles east of Augusta,
stands the city of Sawdust, so named
from big pile of sawdust, containing,
until recently, population of thir-
teen souls, including the agent of the
Southern Express Company. The
town has been long been kept down
by the unlucky number of its inhabit-
ants, but has recently had an addi-
tion to its population and started
upon an era of prosperity. The new
conner is Grub Bolts, a pushing young
man of eighteen, a son Of Hon. Dink
Bolts, Of Lumpkin county, a prOmi-
nent POLITICAL and wealthy farmer.
Grub says his his father received so
much notice from the newspapers
that he has dreams Of the governor
ship, the United States Senatorship,
and the Presidency, and has become 50
arrogant that there is no living with
him in peace. So Grub concluded, to
use his own expression, to shit the
grit" and set up for himself. He ar
rived at Sawdust with fifty dollars,
which he had made selling sassafras
to the tan-yards and washing gold
from the bitches. lie invested part
of this fund in four acres OF land and
planted it in sugar cane last spring.
He says If the price of sugar keeps uI
he expects some day to be the biggest
sugar planter in Georgia. He is full
of plans and resources, and the Saw.
busters are proud of him. Already
the town has three dwellings, two
grocery stores, sugar cane mill and
wire fence; and the pOstOtlice,
which was discontinued some time
ago, is to be petitiOned to return.
This year young Scruggs has arranged
to break yearlings and do farm work
for Esquire Scruggs to earn money
enough to make him feel Independent,
as he expresses it. Next year he will
begin advertising the resources Of his
town and section, besides raising a
crop of sugar cane. As he is boy of
grit and energy, we propose to give a
free notice of one Of his schemes
81 have another scheme which is
calculated to work great good to this
community, and which l impart to
you in the strictest confidence. You
know that this year nearly every
body's fruit was killed. Captain Tiff,
of Triton, saved his peach crop by
burning piles of sawdust in the middle
of the squares OF peach trees while
the cold nights were on. Sawdust
doesn't flame, but simply shoulders.
The smoke rising from the shoulder
ing sawdust piles drives away the
dew, prevents the frost, and saves the
fruit. Captain Tiff, therefore, made
the biggest crop of peaches on record,
while everybody else's peaches were
killed. Now, saw mills are scarce in
this part of the country and fruit is
plentiful. Justu up in the suburbs here
is a pile of sawdust containing millions
of bushels-the pile, you know, from
which the town took its name. The
mill has long since been destroyed, but
the sawdust is there yet. l propose
to form a company to control 1t anC
sell it to the fruit farmers around
during the coming seasons. Its age
will make it more valuable for pre-
serving the fruit from frost, because
while it cannot possibly be set into
blaze, it will out smoke creation. Th'
outcome of the consequent growth IL
fruit raising will bring more people
to the town, cause the erection o
canning factories, add to Sawdust'
shipping Importance, bring back th'
postoflice, and do us lot of good gen
erally."
When these plans are fulfilled tn
son'of Dink Boots Is sure to hav
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