The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-03
GEORGIA PINE MEN
ABOUT TO REALIZE ON BIG ASSET,
IN BY-PRODUCTS OF PINE.
CLEARING OF FARM LANDS
AND INCREASE OF THEIR VALUE
ANOTHER VALUABLE RESULT.

Der Trade Journal in Latest Issue.
says Operations in New Industry
Are Being Conducted Chiefly by
Georgia Pine Men--PredictiOn
Made That Process is So simple
THAT Plants to secure By-Products
win be Located On Farms As Wen
as at Mills.
That interest in the manufacture of
wood spirits of turpentine and of 9th
er by-products of the pine that are to
be secured from stumps and refuse
from sawmills is growing in all sec
tions of the country is shown by arti-
lies that appear from time to time in
various periodicals. Among the lat
l of these is a leading article from
the Lumber Trade Journal of New
York. which appeared in the July is
sue of that paper. 1t is as follows:
From time to time economies are
-usgested by which what are mostly
present waste products of the vel
" pine mills can be turned into value
the operators of mills The Journal
had part in exploiting these ideas.
lha idea of turpentine from old stumps
t. have been left in the field and offal
m the mills which usually is burn
seems to have taken the greatest
popular hold of the imagination of the
lnlllmen. Instances can be multiplied
where practical operations of this sort
are going on. Not in a small way sim
ply but in thorough manner by we'll
known manufacturing concerns, who
realize the Importance of utilizing their
values to the last point. in order to
make, up-to-date operations give the
greatest possible profit.
No Longer An Experiment.
"Of course, these plants have been
mostly installed in a tentative way,
and in any case would prove to be
merely adjuncts to the mills, COM
Iaratiyely, but the idea has passed be-
yond the merely experimental stage,
and several successful processes are
in operation. In fact, one leading
millman showed to the writer a sam
nle of spirits of turpentine manufac-
tured from home apparatus that to
all outward appearances was the high
est class of spirits of turpentine. And
if there was any actual difference be-
tween 1t and the ordinary CONNER
Cial spirits, it certainly would take a
chemical analysis to determine it. These
people had the spirits in the hands
of an analytic chemist at that time for
the purpose of examination, and ad-
vised that if the product was as good
as it seemed to be on superficial ex-
animation, they were going into it ex-
tensively. Since then several other
plants installed in an experimental
way and with home apparatus have
been inspected with great interest by
a representative of the Journal, and
all are working successfully.
Georgia Men Doing Work.
1T is interesting to note that these
operations are being conducted in the
main by the most successful of Geor-
gia pine men. Men who do not go
into things in an aimless way, but who
have faculty of getting at the bot
tom of a proposition: SO at the pres.
ent time it looks as if the Georgia pine
men, at least, were about to realize
on big asset that has heretofore been
worse than useless to them at times
The simple methods of manufacture
admit of good profits on a product of
staple value and always in demand
with little outlay for plant, and prom
Use soon to rid the fields of all the old
yellow pine stumps. in addition to TAX
ing care of refuse from the mills that
has heretofore only found an outlet by
way of the slab pit. 1t will also tend
to put on the market additional val
liable lands for agricultural purposes,
which without the incentive for the
removal of the stumps might lie idle
and useless.
Cheap and Simple Process.
1T is even predicted that the process
is so cheap and simple, that small
plants for producing the turpentine will
not only be found at small sawmills
even, as a matter of course, but in
every neighborhood and on the big
farms. There is no doubt, as the Jour-
nal has before remarked, that there are
many economies such as this which
can be instituted by lumber mills in
the South and elsewhere, and opera
tons that can be worked in as side
lines, with little outlay for. plant and
nothing for raw material. This is one
of them and good ILLUSTRATION of the
value of other similar economies that
can and should, and undoubtedly will,
be worked out in due time"