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that North Carolina did, while Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and 

 Louisiana altogether made about as much more. 



The industry has only become of importance in Mississippi and 

 Louisiana during the past few years, and is still capable of great 

 expansion in these States. The turpentine orchards of Georgia 

 are in about the same condition as those in this State, although 

 there is probably in Georgia more round timber standing. The 

 same may be said concerning the forests in Alabama. There are 

 in Texas, however, between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 acres of 

 untapped long-leaf pine forests and the turpentine industry there 

 has hardly more than made a beginning. 



Inland Extension in North Carolina. — The first turpentine 

 distillery at Fayetteville was established in 1844 by Thomas Lutter- 

 low. The same year the first boxes were cut in what is now Harnett 

 county, near Manchester, by Henry Harrison, who shipped the 

 turpentine from there to Fayetteville to be manufactured. Ten 

 years later there was a distillery owned by Jonathan Worth & Son 

 in operation in the extreme western part of Harnett county near 

 Buffaloe Springs. 



The building in 1850 of a plank road from High Point to Fay- 

 etteville, which road was followed in a few years by a similar one 

 from Fayetteville through the western section of Cumberland 

 county and another which was projected to Raleigh through Har- 

 nett and Wake counties, but only partially finished, caused Fay- 

 etteville to become the seat of a large business both in handling 

 turpentine and rosin and in distilling the crude turpentine. The 

 satisfactory prices obtained, and the facilit}^ with which the pro- 

 duce could be gotten to Fayetteville on the plank roads for ship- 

 ment down the Cape Fear river to Wilmington, led to the indus- 

 try's extending before the outbreak of the civil war, even to the 

 very western limits of the pine belt in Chatham, Wake and Moore 

 counties. 



The completion, subsequently, of railroads across the western part 

 of the long-leaf pine belt caused a great deal of the rosin and 

 spirits, manufactured along their lines, to be shipped direct to 

 Northern and other inland consumers, without going ma Wilniing- 

 ton. In 1893 over 5,000 barrels of rosin went direct west by way 



