The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1910-12-16

that cannot he done while the timber
remains on the land.
SAW MILL vS FARMS
A saw mill of 40 Thousand daily
capacity will cut the timber from 9
acres of land per day of thousand
feet per acre
la one year. run Of $50 days IL Will
cut over l,400 acres OF land and
employ about 20 men The same area
OF land will give J5 farms OF 30 acres
each and employment to as many men
for \ life time. IL the mill runs ten
years II has cleared $50 farms. In the
eighteen townships there are q saw
mills. Each OF these mills will cut
on an average over 1900 acres OF
timbered land In ten years, giving
employment TO 1890 men for that
period OF time. THIS same acreage
would provide forty acre farm for
each Of 9.450 men and give a life time
employment to IS, 900 persons.
A prosperity founded upon an asset
so fleeting as standing timber must
OF necessity carry with II a large
quota OF disappointment, a great
feast, or an equally great famine.
Forty acres OF land with s thousand
feet OF timber to the acre will yield
to labor IS per thousand feet or 81 900
The same land In corn, yielding &c
bushels to the acre at rs cents pei
bushel, will produce 5000 per year, OF
II in cotton, yielding one half bale pei
acre at $50 per bale, will produce
81. 200 per year.
The profit In one is its life, In the
other Its preservation. In one you
must extermiDate In order to realize
on it, while in the other your greatest
profit arises from its careful preserva
tion. In one single harvest; In thu
other an annual harvest. l am moi
a young man but l know land and IL.
real worth. One the killing OF thu
goose to get the golden egg; the Other
painstaking care Of the goose thai
she may lay many golden eggs.
The timber that Is now being cut
from our lands should be a guarante,
OF greater things In the future.
The investment in our milling 10
terest il turned to other and divers,
channels OF industry and manufac
lures would at once double our popu
lation.
1 II In addition to this, II we Can a
the same time cultivate our cut-ove
lands, our future should be assured
i We have an encouraging lessoI
taught US by the experience OF th
people OF the white pine region.
| They too thought that when thei
timber was gone the country woul
be wholly abandoned, but today W
flnd in that same region conditio
OF prosperity never dreamed of 10 th
days OF their saw milling and timber
ing.
WEALTH IN THE SOIL.
The millions Of money invested !
timber has been realized upon an
the money Invested 10 other char
nels; the lands once covered by tImbe
is now turned into farms that yiel
a yearly income; the few employed !
! the woods are now the thousands o
8 the farms; the tens 10 the mills, al
Q now the hundreds 10 the other ei
T terprises. Our timber Is a valuab
}, asset but It's passing should not be a
. omen OF disaster, but an assurance I
y greater and greater achievement N
IS friends, II Is fact that when con
= munIty predicates its hope OF pro
o perIty on a single Industry II is SUI
o TO have sad experiences. 1t matte
II not what that lfne OF industry ms
. be, coal, iron, steel, cotton, lumbe
= or anything else.
d No family should have their all
any business or industry. For u
reason II misfortune comes, IL II
= all, leaving none to come to u
y rescue. For the same reason when
10 community Is wholly given over
" one Industry and low prices and {
IA preston comes in that line, the who
" population Is affected.
Mr.. Vancleave Of this place car
10 into my ofiice few days since wi
d some oranges In box. asked b
ID where be got the box. He said
~ Indiana
Dy | took the measurements and pr
a that he paid and fouEd that be b
OF paid $40 per N feet for the lumber
- the b0x, and the freigh, on II fr'
~ Indiana to Pascagoula while milliC
70. OF the same kind Of material Is burr
he 10 Moss Point annually.
Is. We are. like the poor shepherd u
- drove hts small herd TO Craze, pass
- twice each day over q strata Of g
no OF untold value. but never l00l
he down 70 zee what lay at bis feet.