The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-23

have not made an impression on the supply.
 The mills themselves are among the most perfect plants of modern mechan- ism. Every drive Is utilized until the mills are examples of perfect utfliza- ton of power. A great railway sys- tenn would seem a chaos compared to the rema rkabIe economic control of the mill systems. A huge log is whisked from the receiving pond picked up by great steel arms as if 1t were straw and tossed and shunted about until in a few minutes if has and is being loaded into cars to be shipped away.
 2. Lumber trains hundreds of yards long tug and yanls their loads of timber Into the mill yards, and car by car dump their loads Into the re- eetyinE pond. A lever is touched on the side of the car and load. of some twenty great logs. averaging forty greae splash into the pond. In mo- ment swarm of men. skipping over the writhing logs, have marshalled them into Q raft and poled them to- age<to keep out of the water seems mystery. But from log to log they spring. with the agility and sure-foot- few minutes5 the train load of logs has been pushed and poled to the mills ever .raventnR maws
 Log after log is fed into the mill. up&ard from them, Seize the logs and they are sent up to the saws.
 :. Then. the most interesting part of the mill work iss done.
 Each log is selected at glance by the trained eye of man who con- trois a system of levers. At the touch sde St by svsr sreat 1 spkes s wasksG s 5 to up through the floor of the track They are piled by these spiked arms onto a car that feeds them to the first
 This car whizzes back and forth 10 a saw with the speed of runaway electric street car. Logs three and adjusted, clasped into position and rammed against the saws in a batter tng-ram-like manner that it seems would mash the saw out of existence. way into them like they were as soft as putty and the outer slab boards are ciit off in four quick runs. leaving q great square timber.
 Some of these timbers are cut up into smaller pieces, others are shipped in theft entirety. Those that are shipped from the time they leave the blade and pass along a rofier-way, to go flying on two hundred yard long toboggap and out Into the river. where \ 1neY awe from the GnuLe ana are later caught and gathered In rafts to be floated on to the sea where they are loaded and shipped to all quarters of the world.
 Other pieces of the timber from the first cut are shunted about the mill and cut Into every known form of builders supplies. great jig-saw will take one of the logs and cut it into fourteen or fifteen blanks at one time. Other pieces ofh mechanism cut the splanks into regular lengths. while others take the logs and cut them, in blocks that are later cut into shin
 But the mill is one great system. zach part depending on and helping the others, the machinery doing the work in day that 10000 men could not do in a week.
 GREAT TURPENTINE INDUSTRY.
 Although lumber is the greatest in- dustry of the piney woods, lumber alone is not all the prQf1t the trees give up. The forest trees as they stand are opened and their sap allow ed to run out and this is gathered and turpentine distilled from it
 Week after week the cut through the bark that yields the sap Is cut higher and higher up the tree until some of them are thirty feet from the ground. The sap, or pine gum. Is gathered and taken to the still. Here 1t Is converted into turpentine in exactly the same manner that corn mash Is made Into whiskey,