The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-05
10 UTILIZE STUMPS
NEW PROCESS or MAKING TUR-
 PBNTINE SPIRITS.
Secretary Dave of Censmercisi Club Returns from Conference Tn Mo- bfie--nrinBs Goxeip ef sEdu-
 cnfionai Pollffcs.1

c. Grosvenor Dave, secretary of the
 Commercial Club. returned to Mont
 Eomery last evening after six days
 absence. He has been on an errand
 that may have great results for every part of the State where yellow pine A quotation from Tuesdays Mobile Herald bears intimately upon the mat ter:
 Amid the laughter and gaiety of carnival time two men have visited
 Mobile on a serious errand, whose pos- sible outcome it Is difficult to meas ure either in dollars and cents or in its effects upon the transformation of
 stump land into clean fields.
 One of these men is E. E. Yaryan of Toledo, Ohio; the other Is c. Gros- venor Dave, secretary of the Mont
 gomery Commercial Club. Mr. Yaryan
 is on his first visit to the South and
 is here to get some idea of dowp-tim- Der and stump conditions preparatory
 to contracting for the shipment of good ltght-wood from the gulf region to Toledo. Mir. Yaryans father Is the in- ventor of an entirely new process for extracting rosin and turpentine from yellow pine. leaving a residue of clean. dry chips ready for the coarser grades
 of paper pulp. Hitherto artificial
 methods of securing rosin have been II distillation. leaving charcoal. a dark rosin almost like tar and a mAlodor-
 ous turpentine. MT. Yaryan's process
 uses hydro-carbon liquids that, boiling | in vacuum. take out every soluble part of the wood. the liquor later to be
 treated almost precisely like the con-
 tents of the ordinary turpentine stilI. A twenty ton plant IS Tn complete successful operation in Toledo. and 1t is l commercially profitable to ship wood from here to keep 1t running.
 "The process will unquesttonably
 later lead to the establishment of large plants at various points in the pine
 belt from the Atlantic to the Missis-
 sippi. thus making 1t possible to clear burning up the down lightwood and
 seumps. The Commercial Club Of Montgomery was so impressed wieh the importance of<the matter that they set aside weeks time for Mir. Dave to show Mir. Yaryan the heaviest tim bered regions. They have already vts- tied Flomaton. Century, Pensacoia,
 Mobile, St. Elmo and will tomorrow go to Bay Minette in order to cover Baldwin County.
 Tn brief talk regarding his trip, Mir. Dave said T was again painfully I impressed in Mobile with the lack of cohesion among the business men. For
 some cause not easily explained. the Commercial Club of that city has a
 hard light for support, though two men, Capt John Craft and B. B. Cox, give
 their entire time to endeavors for the efty's development. There are other business mems organization there, and | now comes talk of another. with the | purpose Of uniting all In one strong
 endeavor. Mobile is greatly in need of the unity of purpose that exists
 in Montgomery: for in the great times l coming for the Gulf region, she win not | control much more than her present
 commerce unless the daily vigilance of | a live. determined group of mon, like those who worked there sn the 70's and sos. Is directed toward such vital ques- \ tions as channel deepening and broad ening increased wharf and dock facili.
 ties and trade excursions to the ooun. | tries around the Gulf and in South 1 America.
 .'vast trade lying at her very door
 is now turned aside to New York and
 to England or Germany, because thoss places show a definite interest in that
 trade, and so get it.
 High school Com1niswaom.
 Tt will perhaps surprise you to know
 that many at the south end Of the
 State look upon the jauntsto of the High School locating board as having DO.
 litical significance It fs to be regret | ted that the bias of political suspicion
 should fasten upon 90 noble 6 move
 menf as is represented in the awaken | ing of Alabama to higher education
 and see in the hesitaney and delayed
 decisions of the board anything but the purest motives naturally puzzled by
 the clamor of competing claims."