THE PINEHUBST OUTLOOK
PAGE. 4
Transformation of the Sand Hills
Bion H. Butler
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Practical Correspondence
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I was in Carthage the other day and
I met I?. L. Burns, the attorney, on the
street. In response to my inquiry, ' ' How
are you?" he answered, "I am like the
man I met out along the Sandhill roads
one day some twenty-five years ago, and
undertook to sympathize with because he
lived on a poor looking bit of land.
He looked at me a minute and then told
me that he was not so poor off as it
looked, ''for brother, I don't own this
land here." And Mr. Burns continued,
"I am not so poor off as it looks, either.
Things in this country are coming."
Then a day or so later I made the trip
between Pinehurst and Southern Pines,
going out the one road and coming back
the other. I thought of the story John
Buchan told me some time ago of a Sand
hills man who traded some land for a
pair of oxen. A neighbor told him he had
been done up in the trade, but the foxy
old Scotch trader winked. "I throwed
in on him five acres that he didn't know
about,' ' he said.
This country gained more or less of its
reputation from its pines. But the pines
still left from the older days are the
tragic survivors of the day that has gone.
The big scarred turpentine trees are the
flotsam of a period in which they were
of a limited service, but not valuable
enough to be gathered as the lumberman
came to harvest his crop. So they stand
today, a picturesque memento of their
incapacity, a suggestion of what the pine
forests were, yet only a shadow of the
real magnificence that has been sacrificed.
Yet as I rode the lane that runs from
Pinehurst to Southern Pines I could see
how Nature is doing her best to restore
the ancient glory of this pine country.
I have seen the magnificent pine forest
of North Carolina where the turpentine
man and the lumberman have not com
mitted their sacrilege. I have wandered
in the endless pine forests of "Western
Pennsylvania where for fifty miles not a
house would be encountered and I can
see what is about to happen to these
roads that lead out of Pinehurst, for al
ready it is happening. Young pines that
are growing up on both sides of both
roads, and for that matter on both sides
of miles and miles of these Sandhills
roads, are contributing to this neighbor
hood a new forest growth that in half a
dozen more years will be a dream worth
going a long journey to see. In thinking
about pine forests we do not always re
member that a forest of mature trees is
the result of the development of a forest
of small trees. The forest of big trees
has gone. Pitiful as it is to see the
straggling members of the pine woods
that have gone, it is refreshing to realize
and know that the growth coming on is
the beginning of a fine new forest that
will be more suitable for home surround
ings and neighborhood adornment than
the grown up timber trees that have gone.
The man who appreciates a country
drive can find unbounded pleasure in
almost any run out of Pinehurst these
days. But he must forget all about
his eagerness to pound along as though
he was driving the fire apparatus and
hurrying to a fire. He must loiter along
his route, letting the engine idle down as
slow as it can and maintain its forward
movement. For you can't see the beau
ties of any thing when you have to hang
on to the seat to keep from being thrown
out as you go around the curves. Jog
along lazily and look at the jungles of
little pines that are high as your head
and from that up to as high as your
house. Look; at the dogwoods that are
sprinkling the spaces between the pines
and imagine what all that is to be in an
other three or four years. Look at some
of the knobs that are completely hidden
by the miniature forests, just about big
enough to offer a shield for your house
if you should happen to build one at one
of the charming spots you happen to see,
just enough to shut you out from the
dust and glare of everything running by
and think what a place a hundred of
these pine forests are going to make as
they are livened by the touch of the
architect and the builder and made hu
man by the contact of mankind.
Between crops of the pine tree the
Sandhills looked like the land that a
quarter of a century ago the man as
sured the lawyer he did not own. Now
that the new crop is coming it is easy
to see that while tobacco or peaches or
something of that sort may bring a crop
that is worth a million dollars, the pine
tree along all the highways is brbiging
something that offers companionship for
the people, a setting for the community,
an everlasting thanksgiving for the rich
ness of Nature, for in all the forest
creation nothing in the world goes ahead
of the evergreen, of the pine forest. And
when that pine forest is enlivened by the
white bloom of the dogwoods in the
springtime and the lavish riot of the
red foliage and berries of the dogwood
in the falltime, it is plain enough that
while other crops may have a cash value
the value of the pine forest is measured
by no unit of value that the mind of men
has ever conceived of.
When you go out the road again, any
road in the Sandhills, mind you, look at
the pine forests. "When you comprehend
what they are now picture to yourself
what they will be in three or four years
more. Then you will begin to see why
the future of the Sandhills will be alluring.
The man who forges ahead is not the
fellow who does only what he is told has
to be done; he is the fellow who sees
what should be done. Initiative counts.
Initiative, originality, progress, ideas, do
not come from the top down but from
the bottom up.