The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-19
WASTE PRODUCTS
FOUND YALUABLE
Value Of Nav Econom c Methods
Of Production.
Natural WEALTH OF SOUTH
In The Turpertirc lid lstry Millions VIII
Ee Saved ~ Mora Scent fic Pro.
NATURAL WEALTH OF SOUTH
In The Turpentirc Industry Millions VIII
Ee Saved By Wore Scientific Pro-
c.sses Of Manufacture-D vel>
opment Of Properties.
,s2ccial Dispatch to The Tines. !,

| ESPECIAL Dispatch to The Tines.l
| BALTIMORE, MD, September 49,
| When DR.. Charles II. Herty, who has
| been conducting, under the auspices OF
| the Rational department OF a grculture.
| experiments in the tuIpentine forests OF
| the South. announced TO the Turpentine
! Operators Association that compara-
! lively simple change in the methods OF
| handling the trees would hive G,sed
| millions of dollars uring the past year
| to the earnings of the operators, he gave
n decided impetus to the movement to-
ward greater economies in the handling
| for commercial purposes of the natural
vi oducty of the South. The most mark ed
| manifestation in that direction. perilap s.
has been in the case of cotton seed. fifty
years ago practically waste product,
but now gradually approaching in the
markets the value of the cotton fibre.
I!ut in numbering and in mining. as we'll
as II! divers manufacturing industries.
| more and more attention is being given.
not only to deriving the best results
from the main product, but to convert
ing former wastes into valuable by-pro-
ducts.
III this respect the South enjoys the
practical results of experiences in other
Part: of the country not as richly en-
lowed as it with the raw material for
industry. What necessity has induced
elsewhere the South is adopting as a
strictly business proposition. At the
sure time it is pushing the development
OF its many resources of timber. coal,
iron and other minerals. and is steadily
operinc ur new fields.
OPENING MINERAL LANDS.
Somewhat similar de, elorinent is ex-
pccted from the construction OF the
Tennessee. Georgia and South Carolina
Railroad. which is to tre,vers, a country
containing gold. copper. mica, asbestos
iron, manganese. marble, tale, soapstone.
graphite. kaoiin and ochre. Mr.. c. G..
Eaugh of Mineral Bluff. Ga. 4 surveyor
and one of the incorpora.ors of the road,
writes: THE proposed railroad is sure
to be built by Chicago capital within
two years. Then it will be completed
from Charleston Tennessee to Anderson,
S. c., by way of Ducktown Tenn. Blair
vile. Mineral Bluff. Hiawasree and Clay
to.' Ca. End Walhala. S. C. The road
will be 900 miles long. and will run
through the best undeveloped timber and
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 Walhalla to Anderson
where connection Will be made with tie
Charleston and Western Carolina Rail
way of the Atlantic Coast Line. and
with the Southern Railway, which also
touches Charleston. Tenn. Though it
does not appear that either of these sys-
tens is Interested in the proposed road.
il would give the Southern quite a direct
route from Chattanooga. Tenn. to CO.
l:mbia and Charleston, S. c.. and would
be of advantage to the Atlantic Coast
Line by giving it entrance to the rich
mineral country of East Tennessee.
ELECTRIC RAILROADS.
Electric railway building is also pro-
crossing in the South. two of the latest
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 sub
urbs touching glass works and box fac
tories already esta blished and the sites
of contemplated industries. The Princess
Anne and Deals Island Light, Power
and Railroad Company has obtained
grants of the privilege of using the coun-
try roads and the streets OF several towns
III Somerset county. Md. for its road.
which will be about twenty-five miles
long and which has the right to build
lateral 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