Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-17
Saving THE FORESTS.
Few People Are Giving Thought to
an ALL Important Matter.
TOO Much UNNECESSARY DESTRUCTION
Price Of Timber Goes up as Trees Be.
come seareer-Uses For Wood Have
Multiplied Beyond caleulstion--
Something Must be Done and That
Esu Iarnes HenrY Rice. Jr.

Something MUST DC. pone ana Fhae
Quickly. ,l.... 49,. ,.. -.
BY James Henry Rice, Jr.
; People are not considering how the
forests go. The uses Of wood have
been multiplied ogt,. OF al calculation.
One issue. ', of a o. Sunday newspaper
clears the trees off an acre of ground;
and some OF the big metropolitan news
papers require several acres for a
single Sunday issue. 5
\ The moving picture business struck
the forests OF. the world With besonl
of destruction. Few of the real needs
OF humanity ever made the draft on the
forests that this worship of folly has
done. Then came the motor business,
requitihg even for legitimate uses vast
amounts of TIMBER; but using far and
away beyond all reason. Both these
lines, however, have already struck
trouble and the cure Is working by the
ruin of vast numbers Of smaller con-
Germs.
Necessity, for Carriers. i
Then there arose necessity for car
riers in the shipment of vegetables and
fruits. Recently in the New York
Times Colonel Greeley. head Of the Dr.
vision of Forestry. stated that 15,0o0,-
600 boxes are required to move the cit
rus, fruit crop of Florida alone, some
two and one.half board feet being re-
quired for each box. This uses up an
nually over seventy million board feet.
But California has a. large citrus fruit
industry, and so have other southwest
iern states. Moreover this is citrus fruit
alone: not other fruits; nor is there
any ailowaiIce for the immense volume
of vegetable trade, where the carriers
require more lumber, as in potato bar
rels, for example.
Again there are Georgia peaches and
icantaloupes; same for South Carolina,
North Carolina, hvirginia, Tennessec,
kentucky. Maryland, Missouri, Arkan-
sas, Louisiana, Texas and Alabama
Add in the lumber for the vegetable
trade, ana what a stupendous total we
have! I shall give figures later; but
does not this make you think?
In 1898 a man could have carried the
strawberry crop of, Horny in a bow.
basket. Aefew years later the crop OF
Conway and OF the Chadbourn region
in North Carolina required eleven miles
of freight cars to move it, three hun
dred and odd crates to the car, as I re-
member. ...,
To the strawberries were added
beans, cucumbers, potatoes and other
crops. Then Lake City woke up and
began planting beans and other crops,
recurring an immense amount OF lum-
Der for carriers, e.. :
Meantime the tobacco crop requires
more lumber than an army in canton
ment.
Demand for Wood Grows.
d Twenty years ago fair sized sheet
would have wrapped up the truck crop
Of Beaufort. Today it is one Of the
greatest movements in the South and
growing so fast that. cannot keep
track Of it. There is big box and
crate factory at Beaufort, put to 1t to
get lumber for making carriers. There
is another at White Point Cross, near
Pom Pom river, both immense concerns,
using great quantities of timber. They
are annually taxed to their capacity
and must keep on increasing their ca
pacity to meet trade requirements.
Prices for boxes, baskets, crates and
barrels continually move upward.
There is no way to avoid it, since tim
ber is growing scarcer yearly and
harder to get. s.. ., as
This means that Northern people are
paying more for early vegetables. and
they retaliate by charging more for
what they ship us. ,. ...,. ...
Remember that what Is going on In
South Carolina is going on in every
Southern state. This is not one Of the
greatest, but one of the least vegetable
growing states. .. .h
People must. eat; the growers must
have more carriers, and the mills more
timber.
The remedy here is less bushmen.