The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1900-05-11
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SOME OF GENERAL RuSspI1
ALGEE'S VIEWS A.

cursion on the river, duriny w,, eS'
delivered some views on the Sa ",,a he
moue "f numbering, OF which tho NJ
bile Register gives the rollovins nO'
opsis: syt'
In this connection IL mus,
membered that General Alvs, y -. re-
made his money out Of the indu, ua'
and not in speculation. He s,,r~s''
after the war without a dollar, aOa ~
now worth ten millions or 90
opinion is, therefore, worth soa ms
Ih'Ig In the business. He was
minded, when lie said the S,n,,a'
mil men were not up to date. ,ba,
several big mills had been built h.,a"
Northern men, from his W Stat.
Michigan, and they use the eircu,,'
saw. Pchaps there was somc,hinm
the yellow pine wood that made il i'm
practicable To use the band saw !.
saving IL. Not at ALL he rerl;oa
Tie SAID he had. the day before. nv.,
in the Pensacola district, seen \ h,,s
saw At work on yellow pine. IN o.,
Did OF the friction caused by the eyra<.
gum In that ~ of womd, Il stream n
cold water waskept Gowiny upon ,hs
fssce OF tue saw. lie cited the turtle,
mct that down In jacksonville, F1a.
Is Just finished the largest sawn,in IN
tlie couAssy, AMI 1t is supplied with
band saw. The nuvelty Of THAT plaO,
Is that the saw Is doublcdtd,ed-
that is to say, it has teeth upon buh
sdEe1t and saws the log going and
coming. This may be Il good thiuy.
but he thinks that two band saws
would DO more satisfactory work, for
the reason that when the 10y carriaue
is run to the saw both ways the head
sawyer has no time to deliberate upon
the style OF the cut. Sometimes tina
log will make best a 2,inch and Some.
times a l.inch plank, and the head
sawyer is To decide what can best he
got out Of the 10y. II he is running
two ways he gets dizzy trying to keep
up with the cut, and that causes mis-.
takes and waste. At best the gain In
output is not mare than twenty Der
cent, while the quality Of the run
must he inferior to that which would
be turned out il more deliberation
were used.
"Thet, As to logging, or 'skiddiug,'
as the general called it. General Al
yer criticised the use Of slow.mWlng
unintelligcnt oxen, where horses
would do the work better. lie thought
enough time could be saved tn pay for
the extra feed Of horses. lie had
found IL so In his business. lie used
oxen for two seasons, then sold every
one be had and bought horses, and
made an improvement from the start.
1.-The general showed much interest
in the industrial development visible
along the river front. When told VI
the valuation of the exports, and eS.
pecially that there were l4,OOO,WO feet
! Of lumber and timber exported during
, one week this month, he said that
was an excellent showing. After
watching the process of thnSc engaged
In slowing timber and lumber aboald
ship, he SAID that it was very slow as
compared with the way things arc
are done up on the lakes. lie spoke
of loading | 900, 900 feet in eight hours
I he vessels, he said, ought to bc III
slips and alongside OF docks and taNt
the lumber and timber from sKlds
without the Two nr three iandl'hg'
that are practiccd here. lie was surs
much Improvement cotll0 be obtained
ny adopting the western method liz
waste OF raw material also rccelVc'
his attention. lie observed the sla'
pits, with their piles of burning Iei"S'
wood. I'VE use all that sort OF SUN
he said. why burn II? Ii will max
excellent latlls. One Of my mi'l
makes a profit OF 500 a DAY ouV.
refuse, turning it into laths' IL
was told that some OF the SUN
used in making split barrels, ana as
step ladders, and that not a ll''le
turned into laths. He said tllat '"e,
was still too much waste, ana Ilae
was no credit to our industry tha'
should continue.
Then the general spike I" Dan
saws, saying that in ten years ''o'
now there would not be a circular >"
used in the business. ASKED ""''
the band saw was superior, II was "
used in this locality. he repl'eo "'
it was because the Southern peop
had not figured down the business
F, its proper basis that there was aN
per cent. saving in the use OF Tue "a"
saw, and ten per cent. is a prev
good profit in itself. lie expla'"
that not only the band m"A', :,
: straighter aud smoother mmoc'' =
it has a sixteenth.inch thickness ~.
therefore, uses less wo"d IN t"e :"
ing. This thickness is calleo NV, ~,
He observed q mill out on the r" 49,
Coast using a circular saw WIZ" a ="
A. inch kerr. lie asked why It was "'e
and was told that the timer ""s
cheap that II did not make Any Wv. ;,
epce. He said that the LUMBER ~ - ).
% mill was worth as much In the w
as In the East, and he did not see