Giving a net profit of $1.93 in favor of stump wood. 



The blaster who conducted these experiments for the Turpentine Company 

 reports that the Turpentine Manufacturers are very much pleased with the 

 results and that land owners are now figuring on using dynamite for removing 

 stumps from their properties and selling them to the Turpentine Company for 

 $3.00 per cord, because that is what the Company is willing to pay for pine 

 stump wood. 



It is an admitted fact that land which has been covered with pine forests 

 is very rich in plant foods and will yield bounteous crops if utilized for farms 

 or orchards. The drawback heretofore has been to get the land cleared of 

 stumps. The lumber companies have already cut the marketable timber. Some 

 of the cut-over lands are still the property of the lumber companies. Many 

 thousands of acres, however, have been sold at low prices to settlers who have 

 been laboriously clearing it by digging, grubbing and burning a little at a time 

 as they have leisure to devote to it. 



These cut-over lands can now be cleared up rapidly at no actual expense 

 to the settlers and lumber companies for they will be able to sell the stumps 

 to the Turpentine Companies at a price that will, at least, fully cover the cost 

 of the dynamite and labor used in the clearing work. 



Apart from the far-reaching importance which this has to the agricultural 

 development of these seven Southern States, it is of greater magnitude to the 

 poor settler, who will now be able to clear his lands and get them into shape 

 for the production of large and profitable crops. Lumber companies still 

 owning cut-over pine lands can now clear them and sell them as cleared land 

 for at least double the price they can secure for them as stump encumbered 

 land. In short, by clearing the land, they double its value at no expense to 

 themselves, because the cost of the clearing is more than paid for by the money 

 received for turpentine from the stump. 



Value of Products Obtained From Dynamited Pine Stumps 

 Exceeds Value Obtained From Tree Wood 



We obtained nine cords of wood from seventy-five stumps at a total cost 

 of approximately $3.10 per cord delivered at our plant. This included a haul 

 of about half a mile. 



The value of the prod,uct obtained from this wood exceeded the value 

 obtained from the tree wood. We have a crew at work shooting stumps now 

 and expect to start another crew next week. From present appearances we 

 will use larger quantities of Red Cross Dynamite in the near future. 



ATLANTIC TURPENTINE & REFINING CO., 



E. B. Smith, Gen. Supt., 

 Savannah, Ga. 



Pine Stumps Blasted Out, Split and Ready for the "Hogs" 

 at $2.66 per Cord 



As to the cost of producing stump wood for our plant with dynamite. 



The cost of the first sixteen cords was approximately $2.66 per cord for 

 shooting out the stumps, chopping them to suitable size for our purpose and 

 piling them ready for the wagons. 



We have gotten out several car loads of stump wood at prices varying from 

 $2.61 to $2.98 per cord. 



We have recently made our first run of stump wood with very satisfactory 

 results. 



Today we are ordering our second shipment of explosives and expect to use 

 arge quantities of dynamite in the future. 



STANDARD TURPENTINE COMPANY, 

 Per Frank L. Fogarty, Acting Assistant Treasurer. 



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