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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Starting originally in North Carolina, it has moved south 

 along the Atlantic to Florida 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 mav have its turn at leadership before the tale is 

 told. 



TURPENTINERS WASTED 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 as 

 he 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 timber. But the Census of .1820 mentioned 

 a steam sawmill in Brunswick County, North Carolina, 

 operated by a 20 horse power engine, and using 24 saws. 

 Its crew was given as 16 men, and its cut as 400,000 

 superficial feet per annum. Later larger mills were 



located at the towns on the larger rivers and timber was 

 rafted down to them from the pineries far up stream. 

 .\t first ox teams were used to haul the logs to the rivers, 

 but 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 

 region boasts some of the largest and most completel^ 

 equipped sawmills in the world. These great mills run 

 clay 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 one 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 

 have become a new forest or a prosperous farm land. 

 One wonders. 



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

 have brought these changes about. The original develop- 



Courlesy The Southern Pine Association. 



LO.NGLEAF PINE "EDGINGS" USED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF KRAFT PAPER 



The making of paper pulp from Longleaf pine is an industry which is just beginning to grow up in the South. Mill waste is chiefly used for this 

 purpose. In the interests of conservation this industry should be increased. The Forest Service tests prove that the quality of "Kraft" papers 

 manufactured from longleaf pine surpassed in strength and toughness any other produced in this country or abroad. 



