The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1904-12-24

IN Me- lOD
IN. PITCH AND TURPENTINE
soME INTERESTING HISTORY
o1yCERNING THE PASSING OF
zgr LONG LEAF PINE--WHAT
LIN FUTURE WILL BRING.
oaoced from the Scientific American by
:. isl permission.i
& he days of the prestige OF the long,
"a rine are gone. Time was when 1t
inc in the south. Our biographies
n tell Of the supremacy OF North
Ina in the production of naval
whence came the name, "Tar
| state". The schoolboy was proud
! distinction, and little dreamed
y only the appellation Of this State
remain, while the pre-eminence
E "a produets would soon be claimed
pre southerly states in rapid sue
m But such was the case. Not
years passed before South Cafo-
was first, then followed Georgia,
Florida is now chief ia the pro-
on Of "tar, pitch, and turpentine",
N the yearly output in Alabama,
lana, and Mississippi is large.
n with this roceding line of the
4 long leaf, rapidly drawing in
the Gull of Mexico, the turpehtine
n with his squad of negro en-
Is is intimately linked. First, he
& bis headquarters in Wilmington,
in Charleston, later Savannah,
# now his bill-heads bear the mark
sksonyille. He has made money,
migratory man of the pine forests,
How he shakes mis- head sadly, say
sIt'll all soon be gone," referring
rosin, upon which he is so de-
Int. The passing of this great in
with It's little army of hardy
reminds us of the sad vanishing
indian tribes before the whites.
hrpentine workers left behind them
aled forests, whitening unto their
Many died from being SO un-
Bully drained Of their sap, others
y the woodmens ak, all, In one
d another, melted away. Great
Of tim5ered lands have been
up by the corporations until now
bsidsraDle amount of pine forests
bs in individual hands. These
Of timber have been, or are now
literally moved down by the
pan, and not many years after the
tine man has been stopped by the
he lnmberman will be compelled
down his ak and saw on the same
Aat will the next generation do for
with which to build houses 1t
ok as though some steps ought to
en to protect our descendants
our timber famine. Selfishly
bg, they will have TO do as we
lone-shift for themselves, and
themselves TO such conditions as
nt them. We, who are using the
from sapped trees, now are build
puseS that our fathers would have
pred scarcely worth putting up
used nothing but the best pure
from the pure virgin pine. All
Pged to-day, and the builder OF a
+ glad toget any sort OF material,
pie streaked and knotty sorts
the order of the day. But when
Pc drained and exhausted long,
to-day is gone, what! Why, the
will have to use the short leaf,
will always abound in the South
ties. All that it requires, to be
hat, is to let it alone. Throw out
held as worthless for farming
and in twenty-five years you
Ve a snort-leaf pine forest, which
Ae some kind Of lumber. 1t will
: and soft and knotty, but our
lantS will by that time haye dis
pants and other preservatives
i protect it, SO that the world
nei'iIy on, in Ulissful ignorance
'a'eiy, handsome, and more de-
loOg-leai tqat once was.
le'lnouo products OF the long -leai
l0weyer, are wha0 the outside
la' been most Interested in, aud
needed and used. Tar, pitch,
pen'lne are necessary to the
e'ai world, Whence can these
ieS % supplied, when the trees
" furnish them are gone? The
S' irom the very stumps of the
e that once flourished and from
''W'od knots and fat pine trunks
SVewn all over the pine forests,
snefe once the forests grew.
pRood will keep for an indefi-
S~ ot time, and as long as il
Y aseds OF the world for the
'ues under discussion will be
throughout the Southern
N''ie IS inst springing up new
interesting industry-that Of
scllon OF the resino Gus substances
! llghtwood. Being in its in
!, ae !, industry has not yet got
iuil confidence Of the public,
Oeen developed to that state
'a0n to which it will be brought
" years Of experience.
a Process of making turpentine
consisting in placing the
6pt , 2per Fetortand eyapo.
,Ses. The yapors thus