The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-10-27
Wow Turpenttne Procexs-rriumph Of
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Rev Turpsnttne Proesss-rriumph Of
the Laboratory.
Mr.. s. B. Russ, the talented repre-
sentative of the Times Union, was in
Ocala Wednesday and was registered
| at the Ocala House.
Mr.. Russ was just from Live Oak,
I where he inspected the new inven-
ton to extract turpentine from pine
waste, and is fully persuaded that it
will work revolution in the turpen-
tine industry.
Mr.. Russ says:
''The plants hitherto designed for
the extraction of turpentine from
pine waste have all proven unsatis-
factory, simply because of the meth
| cd employed. Direct heat has in
some cases been put under the re-
torts, and in others superheated steam
has been employed. But in the two
plants that have recently been sold
and installed at Live Oak by the Pure
White Turpentine company the steam
is turned ON to the waste, be it saw
dust or slabs, straight from the boiler,
and the result of the simple but eff
fective process is seen in five minutes
when a solid stream of water white
turpentine, as thick as a mans finger
and as clear as crystal, pours from
the copper still in which the second
distillation" has been accomplished.
THE entire process, from filling
the retorts to drawing off the turpen-
tine, may be accomplished in from 40
to 60 minutes, and these wonder
workers have so systematized things
that two tons of sawdust can in that
short time be made to give up from
to Is gallons of water-white turpen-
tine.
1.-The only residuum left by this
process is heavy wood oil, some
what resembling vaseline, and worth
in the market about ten cents a gal
Ion.
''Some idea of the profit that may
be derived from the operation of one
of these up-to-date plants may be in
ferred from the following statement
of H. B. Smell, one of the two men
who by dint of energy and applica-
ton have made the plant a success:
ga plant that can handle SO cords
of fat Ightwood a day will easily turn
out Is barrels, or 700 gallons, of tur-
pentine in IL hours. At conserva-
tive estimate thu t turpentine is worth
s.. so, which is as much as youl can
produce by going into the woods and
boxing standing timber with a force
of 12O men, to say nothing of the
! teams required. BY our process a re-
suit identicaliy the same is arrived at
by employing only 10 men. Any cav
mill that cuts 60 900 feet of lumber a
day. continued Mr.. Smell, scan by
using one of these plants produce
from its waste as much turpentine as
can be gotten out of 25 crops IN the
open woods with a force of so men.
The products, of course, depends up
on the material used. Fat hghtwood
! will give about I5 gallons of turpen-
tine to the cord. Ordinary pine logs,
, about II, and kiln-dried shavings
about gallons. Ordinary sap slabs,
such as we are running here today,
/ will yield about ) gallons to the cord.
So you can see easily enough that
one of these outfits is worth at least
$40, 900 year to any sawmiu man i'm
the state.''
Horse Stables are Fly Hatcheries.
We commend the following article
to the owners of stables and to the
mayor and members of the city
council.
1t is taken from the Saturday Even
ing Post:
| FIy-killing is a discOurapinp bnsi-