a is aH, ol a 4 se tee Dae PS ghee § 
Grab O'= ROG IgA: PaO" RR SE. Seen errs OnagUs aR Ce Bas AwN Cp. Lore Det lee site en oe) § 
a ee a. = es —____—_-—__—_“e 
Gum Naval Stores were produced, a more favorable unit price increased the 
value of the yield to about $16,500,000. 
HE harvesting of gum from living longleaf and slash Approximately 8 million acres, or 79 percent of the forest 
ines and 1 rocessing into rosin and turpentine is : : ae : . 
pines and its processing int and turpent land in south Georgia, was classified by the Survey in 
a major forest industry in south Georgia. The 1934 35 as turpentine land (table 21/and fig. 12). Dis- 
i i i 934-35 sez 35 acti 3 CART gue ; 
industry included, in the 1934-35 season, 635 active tur FE aHoRFOPthiG area was ais faliteen 
pentine stills (fig. 11)—the largest concentration of gum 
Stands Percent 
naval stores manufacturing in the United States. In Well-developed’. (2% sca: «4. sds 2 ape ee 43 
addition there were approximately 10,000 gum producers Advanced sapling. ....... stern --++- Tl 
without stills. Approximately 7,000 crops of 10,000 cups Young sapling. . .. . pip tle wh: hia Hct oio (tread 15 
: i ; Reproduction andiclear-cut ...%).. snv< sol teeta} eieteat = dete Oe 27 
each were worked in the 1934-35 season, producing 300,000 
4 ; i $ Intermingledinontuxpentine <2 72.0.1. 2 cle «te sl hee stalin 4 
naval stores units with a total value of more than $15,000,- 
000. In the 1936-37 season, although only 272,000 units 100 
LEGEND . “~~ 
a ENE Ie \ 3 { s\e > 
@® TURPENTINE STILLS PRODUCING OVER 900 NAVAL STORES UNITS ie My { h\. * \ 
/ ye ‘8 
@ TURPENTINE STILLS PRODUCING UNDER 900 NAVAL STORES UNITS SA as /s a a el 
fu’, \A ~~ 
————> RAILROADS on Ae A afary roa 
MILES 
10 20 
{ 
fe he teas ti 
LOCATION OF SURVEY UNITS 
IN TURPENTINE AREA 
Figure 11.—Turpentine stills in south Georgia, 1934. 
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