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Will chip from 12 to 15 hundred per day, and dip from 4 to 6 barrels of 

 turpentine, where their trees stand thick, and their boxes are well filled. 



u After tending your trees six or eight years from your first boxing, 

 according to the procedure in Carolina, you back box the same trees,: 

 leaving some two inches of the sap on each side of the tree, between the 

 old and the new box, thereby preserving the life of the tree. Then, after 

 tending these boxes as many years as the first, you can cut the face out 

 10 or 12 feet, by the axeman having a bench to stand on, which affords an 

 immense quantity of the rich kind of wood, such as tar is run from in 

 North Carolina." 



Distillation. — The cost, of distilling is very great, and it is a business" 

 requiring no small capital and energy. In North Carolina there were in. 

 operation, a few years ago, about 150 stills, which, at an average cost of 

 about $1,500, with fixtures, demand an expenditure of $225,000 (45,000^.). 

 There are three or four also in South Carolina. 



Estimate of Profits. — From an American pamphlet on the production of 

 turpentine, we extract the following calculation showing the probable profits, 

 of making the article, estimating the yield per hand at 200 barrels : 

 Average price of dip turpentine . . . $2£ 

 „ „ scrape „ ... l£ 



150 barrels dipping, @ $24 ...... $375 



50 „ scrape @ $1|- 624 



4374 



Deduct expenses for making 200 barrels @ 30 cents 60 

 Conveyance to market, @ $|- . . . .50 

 Commissions, &c 27£ 



1374 



Making clear to the hand of each labourer . . $300, or 60?, 



The average yield here assumed appears very large. We find this 

 estimate, however, amply supported by other published reports and obser- 

 vations, derived from the best authorities. One of these is from an expe-^ 

 rienced North Carolina manufacturer, who spent several months in an 

 examination of the pine-lands of South Carolina and Georgia. He gives, as 

 his opinion, that no region of the world offers greater inducements to 

 embark in the business than the pine-lands of those two States. The trees 

 in many sections are so numerous as to be almost inexhaustible, and the 

 yield, both in respect to quantity and quality, equal to any he had ever 

 found in the best regions of North Carolina. The location of these lands 

 in the immediate vicinity of railroads, navigable steamers, and seaport-: 

 markets, offers the best facilities of transportation and ready sales. An 

 average crop to the hand he estimates at 200 barrels per annum, prices 

 varying from $24 to $4, and expresses his conviction that from $300 to $400 

 can be made clear to every hand employed. 



A gentleman engaged in the business, near Kidgeville, thirty-one miles 

 from Charleston, states that, with forty hands, he succeeded in making 



