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A LESSON FOR THE STATE
HE United States forestry
service has recently is
sued an interesting re
port concerning North
Carolina's output of
turpentine and rosin
which shows that the state is one of the
only two in which production of these
commodities was less than in the pre
vious year and in this connection, it is
significant to note that North Carolina
and South Carolina are the only two
states where practically all of the tur
pentining is carried on by the old des
tructive box system which also destroys
the beauty of the forest. In view of the
fact that in states where improved
methods of turpentining either by the
cup and gutter, or the cup and apron
system, are most in use, the greatest
percentage of increased production is
shown, is there not a lesson to be learned
by North Carolina ere it is too late?
The report is the result of investiga
tion made possible through a special
appropriation of $10,000 by Congress
and it contains the most complete and
accurate statistics ever gathered for the
naval stores industry in this country
and covers the production for both 1907
and 1908, giving comparative figures for
the two years. The total production
shown is some 30,500,000 gallons of tur
pentine and 4,000,000 barrels of rosin,
with a valuation in round figures, of
$14,000,000 for the turpentine and 18
000,000 for the rosin.
Of the eight Southern states, each pro
ducing more than 200,000 gallons of tur
pentine and 25,000 barrels of rosin,
Florida leads the list with 17,030,300 gal
lons of turpentine in 1908 against 15,572
700 gallons in 1907, and 1,932,114 barrels
of rosin in 1908 against 1,774,370 barrels
in 1907.
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louis
iana. North Carolina, South Carolina and
Texas follow in the order named. The
comparative report of the production by
states is as follows :
1908
Turpentine Rosin
Gallons Barrels
Florida 17,030,300 1,932,114
Georgia 10,347.800 1,203,059
Alabama 3,744,050 446,909
Mississippi 2,277,850 277,704
Louisiana 1,696,250 195,804
North Carolina 732,300 131,907
South Carolina 659,800 72,125
Texas 200,650 28.661
36589000 4,288,283
m 1907
Turpentine Rosin
Gallons Barrels
Florida 15,572,700 1,774,370
Georgia 10,119.500 1,173,575
Alabama 3,544,300 418,496
Mississippi 2,232,600 255,307
Louisiana 1,134,100 126,346
North Carolina 916,400 168,561
South Carolina 586,950 75,057
Texas 74,350 7,609
34,180,800 3,999,321
While these, figures show an increase
of 2,408,200 gallons of turpentine and
288,902 barrels of rosin for 1908 over
1907, there was a marked decrease
in the value of the product for 1908 as
compared with the preceding year. This
was due to the great decrease in the
prevailing prices for turpentine for 1908
and the slight decrease in the prevailing
prices for rosin during the same year.
The value of the product for the two
years follows :
Turpentine, 1908, $14,112,377.32 ; 1907,
$18,283,309.93 ; rosin,1908,$ 17,783,509.61 ;
1907, $17,317,059.93; a difference in the
value of the combined output of $3,704,
482.93 in favor of 1907.
The figures used in determining the
value of turpenine and rosin for the two
years are based on the market quotations
at Savannah, the recognized naval stores
market of the United States. The aver
age price received for turpentine manu
factured in 1908 was $0.3857 per gallon,
and in 1907 was $0.5349 per gallon. The
average price received for rosin in 1908
was $4.14 per barrel and in 1907 was
$4.33 per barrel.
The number of operations for the two
years were distributed among the eight
states as follows :
1908 1907
Alabama 192 185
Florida 633 595
Georgia 666 643
Louisiana 25 22
Mississippi 94 93
North Carolina 41 48
South Carolina 37 39
Texas 8 4
1,696 1,629
TUB XTIUVE1II OF GOLF
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mortal company. They discredit the
game with affectation.
Finally, avoid social self-righteousness.
If you play in a tournament play
with grace and courtesy, with whom
soever it is the fortune of the day for
you to be drawn, remembering that
King James, the fifth, of Scotland, and
first of England, was so good a demo
cratic golfer, that he always chose as his
partner, when the honor of the game or
his club was at stake, a humble cobbler
u who drew the cords of misery " in a
little ' snob-shop in the Cripplegate at
Edinburgh ; and that all the early golfing
records are full of such instances, Of
golf it is as true as Lord George Ben
tinck said of another sport, "All men
are equal on the turf and under it."
And the last and greatest of all quali
fications to encourage, is the spirit of
open-hearted, fair play. You want to
win by a better stroke than your oppo
nents, and not by reason of their bad
play, or ill luck, especially if they be
strangers' and you are familiar with the
links. In that case it is your bounden
duty, and etiquette, to make them ac
quainted with, all your special local rules
and with, any peculiarities of your
course as to " out of bounds," blind
bunkers," "blind-holes," etc., etc.
It should be the pride of every golfer
to deserve the epitaph of one :
" Here rests a manly man, beloved by all,
True sportsman, golfer His example take.
Good luck, or ill, might guide bis cheery ball,
He always played the game for play's own sake"
Charles Quincy Turner in Town and Country.
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The Carolina is a magnificent four-story building completed in 1900. The in
terior is a model of elegance, with appointments calculated to suit the most luxu
rious tastes. The hotel accommodates five hundred guests and is provided with
seventy-four suites with bath. The cuisine and table service are unsurpassed.
The house contains every modern comfort and convenience, including elevator,
telephone in every room, sun rooms, steam heat night and day, electric lights, and
water from the celebrated Pinehurst Springs, and a perfect sanitary system of sew
age and plumbing.
H. IA7. PRIEST, manager,
The Betfkshipe,
PINEHURST, N. C.
The Berkshire is a modern hotel, delightfully located with all conveniences tar
health and comfort ; running water from the celebrated Pinehurst Springs, bath
rooms, steam heat, open fires and electric lights and sanitary plumbing. The gutsti
apartments are comfortable and home-like and the public rooms large and attractive.
The cuisine and service is of a high standard.
F. C. ABBE, Manager.
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