Red Cross Dynamite in the Turpentine Industry 



What It Means to Owners of Cut-over Land and Turpentine Manufacturers 



The manufacture of turpentine and rosin is a very important industry in 

 seven of our Southern States. In 1909 there were 1,585 establishments engaged 

 in manufacturing these products. The capital invested in the business was $12,- 

 375,000 and 41,959 officials and workmen were employed in the industry. 



There were produced 555,000 casks of turpentine, valued at $17,680,000 and 

 1,906,000 barrels of rosin, valued at $18,255,000, in the year 1910. 



Although it is a well-known fact that the stump contains a larger pro- 

 portion of the material from which turpentine, rosin, tar, wood oil, creosote, etc., 

 are obtained, than is contained in the trunk and branches of the tree, neverthe- 

 less until lately only the trunk and branches have been utilized by many manu- 

 facturers due to the excessive cost of getting the stump out of the ground and 

 breaking it up into sizes that would go into the " hogs." Lately, however, 

 the National Turpentine Company, of Georgia, has done some experimental 

 work with excellent results. These experiments are of as much interest to 

 owners of cut-over land in the vicinity of turpentine manufactories as to the 

 turpentine manufacturers themselves. 



In the course of making these experiments the National Company started 

 using stump pullers, which required in themselves a rather heavy investment of 

 capital, and to properly use which they were compelled to employ large crews 

 of men and teams of horses, making the cost excessively high. Later, it was 

 suggested to them that dynamite could do this work much more efficiently and 

 economically. The experiment was tried and Mr. T. B. Gautier, President of 

 the Company, made the following report: 



"When measured, the stump wood amounted to seventeen cords. The total 

 cost of explosives and labor was $50.59, or an average of about $3.00 per cord. 

 These seventeen cords treated yielded eight gallons more of turpentine per cord, 

 thirty pounds more of rosin and twenty gallons more of tar than ordinary wood. 

 I am very much pleased with these results and expect to use dynamite for this 

 purpose hereafter. I certify that the attached report is correct." 



Labor Cost 



Boring holes, 1 man 7*4 days at $1.25 $9.06^4 



Chopping roots, etc., 1 man 28^ hours at 15 cents per hour 4.27^5 



Piling and loading, 1 man 2^. days at $1.25 3.43^4 



Piling and loading, 1 man 2^ days at $1.25 2.81^ 



Helper on ox team, 1 man 2 days at $1.25 2.50 



Ox team and driver, 1 1 / 2 days at $3.00 4.50 



Extra help loading cars, 2 men J4 day at $1.25 63 



Total labor $27.22 



Explosives 



304^ cartridges dynamite . $19.87 



400 ft. fuse at 50c. per hundred 2.00 



200 caps at 75c. per hundred 1.50 



Total Explosives $23.37 



Total Cost $50.59 



154 stumps were blasted ; 17 cords produced ; cost per cord 3.00 



One cord stump wood produced 8 gallons more turpentine, 30 pounds more 

 rosin and 20 gallons more tar than one cord of tree wood. 



Value of this increase: 



8 gals. Turpentine at 26c. per gal . .$2.08 



30 Ibs. Rosin at l^c. per Ib 45 



20 gals. Tar at 12c. per gal 2.40 



$4.93 

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