The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-09-21
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
GREATER ECONOMIES IN HAND
LING PRODUCTS.
DR.. Herty's Address to Turpentine
Men Has Had Its Effect in
Other Lines of Com
merce.

Baltimor, Sept 20-(SpeciaD-When
DR.. Charles H. Herty, who has been
conducting, under the auspices of the
National Department Of Agriculture,
experiments in the turpentine forests of
the South. announced to the Turpentine
Operators Association that compare
lively simple change in the methods of
handling the trees would have added
| millions of dollars during the past year to
the earnings of the operators. he gave
| a decided impetus to the movement to-
| ward greater economies in the handling
| for commercial purposes of the natural
products of the South.
The most marked manifestation In that
direction, perhaps. has been in the case
| of cotton seed, fifty years ago practl-
cally a waste product, but now gradu-
| ally approaching In the markets the val
ue of the cotton fibre. But in LUMBER
ing and in mining, as well as IN diVers
manufacturing industries, more and more
attention is being gwen, not only TO de-
| irving the best results from the main
product but to governing former wastes
| Into valuable by-products. In this re-
spect the South enjoys the practical re-
suits of experiences IN other parts OF the
| country not as richly endowed as 1t with
| the raw material for industry. What ne
South is adopting as strictly business
proposition. At the same time 1t is push
ing the development of its many re-
sources of timber, coal, iron and other
minerals. and is steadily opening up ne"
fields.
For example. the Manufacturers Rec
ord publishes this week a statement from
President j. z. Pelham of the Dothan,
Hartford and Florida Railway Company
that the company has just secured nearly
| 1000 600 acres of timber land from the
| board of the internal fund of the State of
| Florida and that with this pledge OF
| lands the company will be able to COM
plete it's lines in the near future. Mr.
| Pelham adds. "This land is to be decided
| by the board in sections of five miles
that Is to say, when the company cross
| ties and irons five miles of the road the
board will deed 1t fifty thousand acres
| of this land and so on, for each succeed
| ing five miles. The company's line ex-
| tends 100 miles through the State of Flor
| ida and it hopes to have the road COM
| pleted in the near future. This land upon
which agricultural products of all de-
seriptions do well, can be sold at $l.JO
| an acre and when the timber Is rernov-
ed from 1t, it will become an agrlcul-
tural district"
Somewhat similar development is ex-
pected from the construction of the Ten
nessee, Georgia and South Carolina Rail
road, which Is to traverse a country con-
tanning gold, copper, mica, asbestos, iroh'
manganese, marble. tale, soapstone'
graphite, kaolln and ochre. Mr.. c. G.
Baugh of Mineral Bluff, Ga, surveyor
| and one of the incorporators of the road
writes, "The proposed railroad Is sure
| to be built by Chicago capital WITHIN tWo
years. Then it will be completed from
| by way of Ducktown, Tenn, Blairsviile
Mineral Bluff, Hiawasse and Clayton
| Ga, and Walhalla, s. c. The road Will
be 220 miles long and will lrun through
| the best undeVeloped timber ana mineral
| country in the South.
When application was made for the
| charter of this line the inference was
that its purpose is to use the Blue Ridge
Railway from Walnalla to Anderson
| where connection will be made with the
Charleston ana Western arOlina Rail,
way of the Atlantic Coast Line and
with the Southern Railway which also
| touches Charleston, Tenn. Though II does
not appear that either of these systems
is interested in the proposed road. II
would give the southern quite direct
| route from Chattanooga, Tenn. to Co
| lumbia. S. c., and would give the South
| ern quite direct route from Chattanoo-
| ga, Tenn, TO Columbia AMI CharlcstoI
| S. c., and would be of advantage to the
| Atlantic Coast Line by giving 1t en-
| trance to the rich mineral country OF
| Eastern Tennessee.
Electric railway building is also pro-
crossing in the South two of the lates
| projects announced being in West Vir-
ginia and Maryland In the former State
the road is to extend from Grafton TO
Fetterman, Pruntytown, and other SUI
burbs touching glass works and box
factories already established and the sites
of contemplated industries. The Prin-
cess Anne and Deals Island Light, Pow
err apd Railroad Company has obtained
grants Of the privilege of using the coun-
try roads and the streets of several towns
in Somerset County. Md. for its road,
which will be about twenty-five miles
long and which has the right to build lat
eral roads The road runs over level
country through a prosperous trucking
and village section. and will make con-
nection with steamers for points in the
North and IN the West