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Mobile in the same year were 153,018 gallons of turpen- 

 tine, 58,646 barrels of rosin and pitch, and 113 barrels 

 of tar. 



The following table gives some later statistics of the 

 same industry, taken from "Forest products of the 

 United States, 1909." 



For the last decade or two Alabama has ranked third 

 in the production of naval stores, being far surpassed by 

 Georgia and Florida. At earlier periods it was sur- 

 passed also by the Carolinas, but the industry has de- 

 clined greatly in those states, owing to the exhaustion of 

 the timber. The only other states producing naval stores 

 are Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, and the industry is 

 still in its infancy in the last-named. From 1904 to 

 1909 Alabama produced just about 10% of all the tur- 

 pentine and rosin made in the United States. 



According to page 169 of the publication last cited, 

 there were distilled in Alabama in 1909 46,478 cords of 

 softwood, costing $69,859. This was probably nearly 

 all long-leaf pine (stumps, knots, etc.), converted by dis- 

 tillation into charcoal, turpentine, etc. In this compara- 

 tively new branch of the naval stores industry Alabama 

 leads all the states, the quantity mentioned being 40.3% 

 of the total for the United States in the year named. 



Practically all of our turpentine and rosin comes from 

 the long-leaf and slash pines, Pinus palustris and P. El- 



