The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-17
Often Used in Ignorance
as Northern Product.
The TAR HEEL PINES
other Woods From this State That Go
TO Make Up a Splendid Exhibit
in the Forestry Building at
: the Worlds
Fair.
est. Louis Lumberman.)

est Louis Lumberman.)
1t started in the Kentucky exhibit,
when a lumberman from that State
aid: do you know that we nave a
wood in the Kentucky mountain sec
lion that lots of people use and yet
lon't know that we have timber OF
hat kind?"
Now that sounded odd on its face.
md all over, for that matter, but
lad heard something of the same
Kind before in connection with the
Tennessee mountains, so l made guess
light away that it was white pine.
Then. when we got over to the North
carolina exhibit and found fine
blank of this same material, 1T seemed
sine to have an understanding about
[. that is have the matter of this
Southern white pine cleared up, both
is to its quality compared with the
Northern product and the reasons for
apparently being sold under cover
is Northern pine.
"Well. I'll tell you" he said there
IS some difference in the Southern
white pine, and while some of 1T VIII
not compare so favorably with the
Northern pine, there is lots of it that
gan white pine, and it is being used as
such right along, even in the pattern
shops, where we find the most par
ticular people on earth, regular
sticklers who think that nothing but
Michigan pine is fit for patterns. In
sections of the country where the
white pine predominates it is just as
good as any Northern pine and fully
as light but in other sections, where
other woods like poplar and hemlock
predomnate, with just a little smat-
tering of pine, it runs somewhat
heavier, and may grade lower than
the Northern product of the best sec
tions, but even there 1t will compare
very well with certain sections of
Northern pine.
Trouble Not With The Wood.
"The trouble with this Southern pine
is not with the pine itself, but with
the people. People who have been
using the Northern pine all their lives
think that what we have down South
is just sort of bull pine, and you
just simply can't argue them out OF
it, And yet, / have had this white
pine shipped in roundabout way and
sold il as Northern pine, and 1t went
without complaint. OF course, don't
like to do things of that kind, ana
make il a point to sell it for what 1T is,
ally there comes a time when ! get
curious to test the matter by passing
| it off on some inconvincable fellow as
Northern pine. 1t will go all right,
md now you know why, as it is from
| this, that people are using TINS pine
that have no idea that it grows in the
Southern mountains But we have
come to the time when they should
T, know 1T, and we should sell this pro-
/ duct for what it is and advertise 1t
| for what it is. Its quality has already
| been proved but we can prove IL
| further and we ought to do it If neces-
sary and then the lumber buyers OF
| the country should be taught TO Tree
| themselves from this unfair prejudice
against Southern white pine, so that
we can have a fair show with 1t. They
will come to recognize 1t In time, but
| the time should not be made so Tar
| off as to come after we have cut out
all the best of it. 1t wouldn't do us
much good then, but right now it will.
| and we want a fair show with 1T. Just
put that down in your paper, if you
want to say things about these dis
plays. Take a look at this plank here
| from North Carolina and tell me IL
you can see anything wrong with it.
| Doesn't it strike you as being good
enough for pattern work or anything
else? 2"
Quality and Quantity.
| It certainly did. and now ! am Won
dering to what extend this lack of un-
| derstanding exists, and how much
| this fair will do to straighten the mat
ter out. There are specimens of
Southern white pine to be seen in the
displays of the three States, Ken
lucky. Tennessee and North Carolina,
and the lumbermen visitors to the
/ fair who are interested in the sub
| ject of white pine should make it q
lpoint to see them. The time is COM
| ing when they will probably want this
| pine for what it is, some Of them are
probably getting it today and think
ing it is something else, and this lat
ter may be largely their own fault.
! Anyway, they ought to make it point
/ to see this, then give the Southern
product a chance to prove itself and
remove the necessity for it parading
as something else at times to get re-
cognition.
/ | had quite q talk with Commission
err General H. II. Brimley, OF North
! Carolina. about this white pine OF
North Carolina. of which they show
such an excelIcnt sample, and he says
that some regard its growth down
| there as a sort of freak of nature The
| facts are. they have in the mountains
there an altitude soil and some meas
| ure of climatic conditions Of the North
/ country where the main body Of white
/ pine grows, so there Is nothing SO
strange about it's close resemblance to
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