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will be cele- e this year. It will be a rolit for the olina. nty paid |15 of each cow he county at le sale at ES AY mit Oc- States. |: nd San h direc- ay each outhern 31.60. ight of outhem a Beach 1 on any OLINA. mtmmmnm xxtmntnuumt es s” ing men the last! mpanion- way to a ines 19th. VOLUNE 8 THE PILOT NUMBER 29 Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all communications to IHE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS. N C. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1928. Action at North Knollwood Airport Army of Men, Teams, Tractors and Equipment Clear Ground Rapidly Bion H. Butler One of the swiftest jobs in this Fine House In Handsome Setting McPherson Starting Building on Weymouth for Mrs. McKinley. One of the finest things in the way of a new house in this section is that , ... which John McPherson this week Sandhill country where thmgs are McKinley on Wey forming the habit of moving swift- ly, is the revolution at the site of the airport over in the North Knoll wood section, where on Monday Frank Maples had increased his force to a hundred hands, about a dozen teams of horses, two tractors, plows enough to keep the outfit busy, and small tools in quantity. When he stopped work Saturday he had cleared and partly plowed sixteen acres from the running start of Tuesday morning, mouth Heights in Southern Pines. The building will be 103 feet by 50, foun dation of stone, with upper construc tion of tile and stucco, after designs by Yoemans, and it will stand on one of the most picturesque sites in the Moore county hills. The location is on that portion of Weymouth known as the Highlands, and it will top one of the bluffs that breaks off abruptly down toward the James Creek flats, with a sweep of view that covers pret SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A Straight Business Propositio%^SX™pi.„siup W. A. PETERSON. How many people have ever looked I or call it what you will. If it will upon the growing of timber on their' cause the owners of woodlands in woodland as a business proposition ? j Moore County to hold a higher opin- Mr. Citizen, of Moore County, have i ion of his cut-over lands, if it will you ever done so ? In all probability | teach him the folly of cutting imma- the only thought you have ever given | ture trees, if it will teach him that your forest areas was at the time the growing of timber on unproduc Ric^ ^ ^*ts Wins Medal With a . liargest Summer Crovvd Ever Assembled. you had to pay the taxes on it, and probably thought then that you were being abused. And yet in your forest tive fields and cut-over lands is a business, and one that will pay divi dends far in excess of anything he areas of Moore County lies one of can now undertake, then the work of with the trees removed an.d many of | ty j^e whole horizon, and them cut up into f.re wood, others , reaches for miles out into the dazes into saw logs, and the entire area, <,f Fort Bragg and up and down the free from obstruction and most of it ^ Seaboard courses. It is on the lot cut up two or three times with the j above the handsome Merrill house backward and forward swing of the j b„i,t y^^r, and adds one more to big tractor harrows. | group of attractive structures on The first of the week he commenc- those ridges. It is not far from ed to clear out the roots, small ob stacles and everything that will pre vent the surface from offejring a smooth landing place for the fliers where Louis Lachine is starting on another house a little closer in, and not far from the location of the Wads worth house on a site bought from the and the first of the week that sur- Maples farm, face has been combed with harrows, j This is the first of the big new jobs plows, rakes, grubhoes and every- j to get under way on the ridge, and it thing that gets away with the rub- i will be sometime before anything is bish that would make landing dif- j undertaken that will eclipse this one ficult or starting disagreeable. The j for impressive architecture and fit- field which is about three-quarters of ness for the location. The stone fea- a mile long, will be planted with Bermuda grass within a few days, and may be finished by the time this is printed, for this job is moving. The site of the field is in the tri angle between the Carthage-South- ern Pines road and the old Seals road from Pinehurst to Lakeview. The Seals road forms the east boundary of the long side of the main field. To ward the Lakeview end of the main runway is a cross run which permits landing from four different direc tions, and work will be shoved for- ture will harmonize perfectly with the ruggedness of the setting, and the strength of character that the style gives it will be an asset to all of the Weymouth vicinity. The excavation is well under way, and the walls will begin to arise in a short time, when a trip to the hill top to see the im posing creation will be worth while. This house in its advance toward the front of development is prophetic, for it says with emphasis that Southern Pines is pushing forcefully out to ward Fort Bragg and in a manner that points to substantial progress on your greatest sources of potential wealth. It is a pity that the farmer did not stop to give a little more thought to his woodlands ten or even twenty years ago. Of course timber was plentiful at that time, and as. far as he knew it would always be that way. He didn^t give it a thought. Today in Moore County there is in excess of three hundred and forty thousand acres of woodland, or prob ably close to seventy-five per cent of the total area of the county. And just what thought is given to the business of timber production on this vast area today? True there are a few wide awake owners, the pioneers of the new type of timberland owner of the future, but they are the excep tion and so few in number that their effort on the whole is felt but little. But most of us are open to convic tion, if proper facts are brought to our attention, and that is the object of this little sermon or business chat. the writer in preparing this article and in studying the conditions in CHAS. MASON. The largest gathering of golf play ers ever assembled during the sum* mer season at Pinehurst started out to play in the Sandhills Open Cham pionship. Over one hundred entered the tournament of which 88 players qualified to play in 11 divisions. Richard Tufts won the qualifying medal with a fine round of 73. Other Moore County will not have been in | players to break 80 were Ellis Ma- vain. I cannot at this time advise the planting of trees for the purpose of timber production. Every owner of woodland is in this business, timber production. Now here are a few facts that he should know. As a business proposition it will not pay him today to try to re-forest areas by planting. The initial cost is too high to warrant him in undertaking it. I am talking now of your ordinary pine land, for that is the type of land which I have in mind. On low, rich lands it might prove profitable to plant black wal nuts. I would not advise it until by the study of areas, where this has al ready been attempted. I was assured in my own mind that it would pay. There is a way to obtain a good stand without planting and it is such a (Please turn to page 8) ward fast that the landing may be possible at the earliest possible date.! all the Weymouth holdings. The further work will be taken up in due season, but the main thing now is to get the ground ready for action, and no one who has seen the work that is alrejady accomplished has any doubt as to what is to fol- Pinehurst Institution Starts Its low. The American Air Port Cor- Annual Expansion poration has the work in hand, and | Program, it is a big capable corporation and Warehouse Builds Large Addition familiar with flying. About once a year or so the Pine- One of the interesting things about i ^u^st Warehouses feel the unea£ne.ss THE TREES OF BY J. McN. JOHNSON. MOORE COUNTY Chapter XXI. “Forestry is a problem of today. It means life and prosperity of the children of tomorrow, and those of many tomorrows.” —The Forestry Primer. SOURWOOD: Oxydendrum. Arbo-1 self that he would establish an Apiary reum: Sorrell Tree: The name of this ! on his farm, with five hundred stands tree, as well as its nick-name, is given pies, 75; Thad Page, 77 and Dick Wilson, 79. Some very fine prizes have been given by local business houses in the various towns and as there were so many people who desired to give a prize there are being awarded two prizes in each division of eight and also a prize for medalist. The concerns who donated the prizes are listed below: Pinehurst Warehouses. Frank DuPont. Pinehurst Department Store. Carolina Pharmacy. Aberdeen Hardware Company. Bridges-Boone Company. C. L. Hayes. Burney Hardware Company. Aberdeen Grocery Company. O’Brien Drug Store. Franklin Sales Company. Page & Shamburger. M. C. McDonald. H. C. Conant. Mason and Gardner Company. . Pinehurst Golf Shop. Smith Bros. Fox Drug Company. Chas. Grey & Son. ’ - Norfleet P. Ray. C. T. Patch. All of the firms mentioned did not give actual prizes as there wei» ex penses such as printing, stamps, etc., ! which some of the concerns agreed to j settle. The Pilot did some rush work and made a special trip with circu- ! lars at their expense to help along the tournament. There are some fine matches being played during the early rounds and with promise of some fast golf when the first division finals is played. Several of the ladies are playing in the matches and giving the men a real tussle. Miss Helen Waring led the Knollwood project is the num ber of big men who are getting a finger in the neighborhood. Ralph Page who gets location 422, beside the site bought by James and Jack Boyd not long ago, is the last re cruit in this progressive movement. Ralph gets a site on the Grove drive, fourth lot from Midland road, and not far from Judge Way’s Midland road house. This is an important ad dition to the Knollwood interests, for Ralph Page is one of the most cap able judges of property values in this part of the South. He has been in on many big transactions, and has known how to turn his work into money. Ralph was not so enthus iastic about Knollwood Heights when the plan was opened, for he had not suspected that the Kollwood corpor ation would put into the pl|an so much money as they have done, or that they would carry the develop ment along as fast. But when he sees the decisive determination on the part of Knollwood directors to make the Heights the desirable spot it is becoming. Mr. Page said he had found a place and a group of men that he would like to work with. This able judge of real estate op portunities, and student of Sandhill expansion, figures that the men who are interested in the Knollwood com munity are going to do something that will be revolutionary, and he says the move cannot be stopped be cause it has the goods and it also has the people who are big enough of growing pains, and Harrison Stutts gets out with a tape line and one thing or another that indicates furth er expansion, and this year is no ex ception. Builders are on the job changing some of the walls in the two main buildings which Lre to be connected by a building that will oc cupy the entire area between the two existing houses, and when the new work is done the whole thing will be in one large structure 261 feet long, fronting on the railroad on one side and on the highway on the other. The success of the Pinehurst Ware houses has been phenomenal. When the institution was opened a few it from the fact that the sap of the tree is strongly acid. The taste is very like the Sorrell Plant, Oxalis, from which. Oxalic Acid is obtained. So strongly acid is the wood that a small sapling, no larger than a man’s arm, will neutralize a whole log heap of oak and hickory, so that the lye from the ashes will not make soap. We used to be constantly warned of this fact when we were sent to (Please turn to page 3) STATE POOREST SERVICE making ECONOMIC SURVEY TIMBER RESOURCES OF STATE. (Please turn to page 8) The State Forest Service is now making a detailed study of the tim ber resources of the State, in order to more fully understand the problems confronting them in each county. In order to get the best data available each county is being taken as a unit and forestry conditions noted, such as merchantable timber now standing, the presence or absence of second growth and the shape it is in, waste in present logging methods, danger from forest fires and preventive meas ures looking to the perpetuation of timber production, values of standing timber, forest lands, productive and unproductive, and their relation to present taxing methods. of bees. He consulted a specialist i women in the qualifying round about employing a full time practical i with a well played 92. bee-keeper. About the first question the specialist asked my friend was: “How plentiful is the Sourwood Tree in your woods?” When he answered, “Not a tree that I know of,” immed- The interest in the tournament has been widespread and players from Rockingham, Hamlet, Raeford and other Sandhill towns are playing in the event in addition to the large num- iately the bee specialist began to dis-1 from Pinehurst, Southern Pines, courage the enterprise, and it has i Aberdeen and Carthage, never materialized. I Besides furnishing large quantities - 47 Killed Is the , fine honey nectar, the bios- ! Moilthly SlaUg-hter ;he woods to cut and burn oak and som of the Sourwood Tree does not i hickory logs for the family soap- appear until late in summer, and thus I ^2 Daily Is the Automobile making. The Sourwood Tree grows all over Moore County—except in the Sand- appears at a time when other nectar- bearing flowers have disappeared, and the bees, but for this fine harvest. Regular List of Injuries On the Highways. more Northern states, for the rare beauty of its foliage; but our own people have persisted in classingg the Sourwood as a minor tree. It grows best on hills that are underland with rock and clay, and its roots run about on top of the ground. In my boyhood I hated the Sour wood as a pest in the new-ground. My father taught us boys to make a brush-heap, or better, a log heap, on hills;-and even there to a limited ex-1 would be put to it to find their win-} ^ people W2re injured tent. It is beginning to be extensive- j ter s store of provisions. ^ killed in automobile accidents last ly grown in gardens in some of our The blossoms of the Sourwood are j according to the report of W. small and white—sometimes delicate- j ^ ^^e motor vehicle bu- ly tinted, and are borne on a stem ^^e State Department of Rev- six to eight inches long, and hang, issued yesterday which showed like little silver bells. The numer ous seeds are enclosed in capsules, that hang on the tree well into win- i ter. 47 killed and 365 injured. Figures for last month were in keeping with those of former months ^ J. , .1 i? that the majority of accidents were The first year’s growth of the j j ^ i i reported due to carelessness or reck- stems is a brilliant red, and grow in long, straight rods, as large, or larg er than a man^.s finger. The bounti- a Sourwood stump, to be burnt. Theiful supply of sap running in these burning would prevent to some de gree, the myriads of sprouts next spring, and also destroy those roots that lay close to the surface, too stems makes it easy, by rubbing with a hard stick, to loosen the bark from a section of these rods, and slip it bodily from the wood—and now you large and too numerous for the coul-1 have the barrel of a capital good fife ter to cut. as a boy’s first musical instrument. In localities where Sourwood Trees grow plentifully, they have the best and clearest honey; for the bloom of the Sourwood is a veritable Land of Goshen for the honey bee. A few years ago, a neighbor of mine, who owns a large territory of land near Aberdeen, bethought him- 1 am sure my red-blooded boy read ers will understand me well when I say this improvised flute is the almost universal instrument, on which we learn to play "Cindy”—and it is ele mentary learning that “Cindy” is our first love in the mastery of the art of (Please turn to pam 6) lessness. Thirty-seven accidents were caused by intoxicated drivers, the ac cidents resulthig in five deaths. Ex ceeding the speed limit was responsi ble for 50 accidents and eight deaths. Six deaths were caused by passing on curves, and 25 accidents by drivers not having the right of way. Sixteen accidents were caused by disregard ing signals, and two deaths. Seven people were killed in railroad accidents and 14 injured. Alexander and Moore counties have made appropriations to have home demonstration work as soon as suit able women fian be secured.