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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Starting original!}' in Xi)rth Carulina, it has moved south 

 along the Atlantic to 1-^lorida and then west along the 

 Gulf to Louisiana and Texas. This movement was at 

 first slow, and Xorth Carolina retained for many years 

 its leadership, which then passed to Georgia ( it was as 

 Georgia pine it captured the markets of the North), 

 and from there to Alabama and finally to Louisiana and 

 Mississippi. Texas is the last frontier of the longleaf, 

 and ma\- have its turn at leadership before the tale is 

 told. 



TL'RPEXTIXKRS \V.\STED VALUABLE TIMBER 



At first the turpentiners led the van, searching out vir- 

 gin timber, "boxing" it and leaving it to fire and wind- 

 fall when it would yield no more resin. The lumberman 

 harvested such trees from these depleted orchards a? 

 lie could use, but many of them were destroyed before 

 they were needed for lumber. With the greatly increased 

 demand for lumber, the lumberman pushed ahead, and 

 now has passed the turpentiner and is working largely 

 in unbled timber. 



The early mills were small water power affairs, located 

 close to the timljer. But the Census of 1S2() mentioned 

 a steam sawmill in ISrunswick County, Xorth Carolina, 

 operated by a 20 horse power engine, and using 34 saws. 

 Its crew was given as 10 men, and its cut as 400,00(1 

 superficial feet per annum. Later larger mills were 



located at the towns on the larger ri\ers and timber was 

 rafted down to them from the pineries far up stream. 

 At first ox teams were used to haul the logs to the rivers, 

 liut as it became necessary to go further back from the 

 river banks, and operations assumed a larger and larger 

 scale, tram roads were built into the timber, and logs 

 were hauled on them to the rivers. Now, however, 

 nearly all logs are railroaded directly to the mills, which 

 are generally located on trunk line railroads. The mills 

 too have increased greatly in size, and the longleaf 

 legion boasts some of the largest and most completeb 

 equipped sawmills in the world. These great mills run 

 day and night, year in and year out. The smoke from 

 their stacks covers the landscape and at night the glow 

 from their refuse burners lights up the sky like minia- 

 ture volcanoes. The roar of these great mills as they 

 turn out hundreds of thousands of feet of lumber a day, 

 destined for all the world, can be heard for miles. These 

 gigantic operations take a strong hold on the imagination, 

 and line takes off his hat to the genius of the American 

 lumbermen who have created them. Perhaps when these 

 great mills are dead, and the armies which operate them 

 are scattered to the ends of the earth, the pineries will 

 lia\e become a new forest or a prosperous farm land, 

 '-)ne wonders. 



It is interesting to glance for a moment at the men wdio 

 ha\'e brought these changes about. The original develop- 



Catirtcsy Tlic Souther)! Pine Associatiou. 



EON'GLEAF PINE "EDGINGS" USED FOR THE MANliEACTURE OK KRAFT I'APICR 



The making of paper pulp from Longleaf pine is an industry wliicli is just heginnins to grow up in the Sonlli, Mill w.iste is tliiefly used for this 

 purjiose. In the interests of conservation this industry should lie increased. 'I'he F'orest Service tests [irove th.it the qu-ilil\ of "Krafi" pajiers 

 manufactured from longleaf pine surpassed in strength and toughness any other jiroduced in this coiinli\ or abroad. 



