The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-06
Pine STUMPS
INCREASE in
MONEY VALUE
SETTLEMENT DEVELOPER PRE-
Diets FARMERS WILL BE PAID
FOR PRIVILEGE OF STUhPiNG
THEIR LANDS.

Washington, July 5.-Fhe time IS
coming, and at no distant date, when
the owners OF southern cut-ovsr tim
Der lands, especially in the coastal
plain area, will be paid for the privi-
lege of clearing their lands of the
yellow pine stumps that now disfigure
them. This is the opinion OF Clement
g ticker, vice president of the South
ern Settlement and Development Or
ganization, who has just returned
from a trip of several weeks extend
| ing through the South Atlantic states.
The clearing of cut-over lands in
| the south has appeared to some peo-
| pie to be serious problem, although
| competent authorities estimated that
| pine stump land can be cleared by
/ the use of high explosive or by other
| modern methods at a cost of not more
| than $40 per acre.
The situation foreseen by Mr. ticker
| in which the cut-over land owners
will be paid for letting their land be
cleared arises in part out of the fact
that the supply of rosin and turpen-
tine obtainable from the standing pine
timber of the south is perhaps not so
| plentiful as it once was. Also the de-
mand for these articles, which are
known in the markets of the world
as naval stores" as well as for oth-
err by-products of the lumber INDUS
try. has increased due first to war
conditions and since then to the ne
cessities of the reconstruction perlod
, and the return of peace.
Investigations and experiments, says
{ Mr. Ucker, have shown that there 10
! a high percentage of naval stores and
l other valuable substances in the yell
} low pine stumps that dot the coastal
plain area from the Chesapeake bay 10
: the Rio Grande. Scientists say that
this is due to the fact that after the
! tree is cut the roots do not die I'M
q mediately. On the contrary HlAlohS
| of tiny rootlets continue for time
To absorb food and moisture from the
d earth which are transmitted upward
n in the form of sap to the stump Inc
n latter thereby becomes even more
,, tborouehly saturated with valuable
y oils, etc.. than was the TRUNK Vi ''i'
~ tree.
= sturnns throughout the southern
states constitute a veritable mine o.
n materials needed by many industries
i and MANY countries for various pur
* noses These materials can be mad'
IT available by pulling the stumps gu
1T with powerful machinery and putting
ID then, through the process or dlstllia
% ton The stumps are becoming $
- valuable, it is said, that there WIN
Ia competition to purchase them
~ There are plants running success
er fully in Georgia and FLORIDA ana otii9
a southern states where pine stump
Of ara being successfully converted INT
1t rosin turpentine pine oil, various olii
l. or oils. acetate, tar, pitch, alcohol an
other valuable products In som
caeas On to % by-products are DC
20 ING obtained by certain processes III
~ volving the application OF intense me-
- an oven or retort, after WHO
even the residue is valuable charcoa
THE uses of rosin and turpehlhi
in the soap paint and other iIiu"o
tries is generally understood iie
= ,,aluable in making various chemi
cal preparations, and other "oou ga
and by-products have their wen re-
,;zed uses. The demand for alcoh
!; 1,arv great and ethyl alconoI
,,,o1 las wood alcohol is made iro
nine chips Rosin extracted from u
stump chips by one process -
FL nulp suitable for making paper
III ,,coess of many of these opefdtloi
whereby valuable by-products are :
covered from pine stamps haS
demonstrated scientifically PId0 10
m. :. I'D commercially, through cooper
IL ton of government expert ., dist;
p ION cut-over land owners ana ols'
ne lation plants bolaine
al pending the clearing of his hololns
rl< c,t-oyer land owner is PUTIN
ar Van, TO use by grazing cattle shes
a and goats. which is becomihg one ,.
ng tho largest industries IN the So
tie one of the biggest lana cieai lS
81 erations in the SOUTH II 70
a roiag conducted in Florida by :
PaoIds Farms Company, of whicn
Ic- l r ODDS. is chairman of the board
70 directors.