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VOLUME VII.
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10,1882.
NUMBER 49.
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Brunswick, Georgia.
CITY OFFICERS.
Major- M. J. Colson.
Aldermen- 3. 3. Spears, 3. P. Harvey, F. J. Doer*
Unger, S. O. Littlefield, J. M. Conper, 3. Wilder,
Or. Hardy, 3. B. Cook.
Clerk 4 Treasurer—James Houston.
MefMankal—3. E. Lambrlght.
Policemen -D. B. Goodbread, W. H. Rainey, O. B.
Moore, 0. W. Byrd.
Keeper of Guard House and Clerk a] Market—D. A.
Moore.
Port Fhytieian—J. 8. Blaln.
“ ' ' m-J. R. Robins.
_ e Cemetery—Q. G. Moore.
Sexton Colored Cemetery—3nekle White.
Harbor Matter—Matthew Shannon.
Port Wardens—Than O'Connor, A. E. Wattles, 3
U. Dexter.
sTAiromo couunns or oouxcil.
Finance—Wilder, Cookjmd Spears.
Iimrs, Deaths A BalDoxs—Harvey, Hardy and
Ilttlefleld,
Public nunmneos—Harvey, Conper and Wilder.
Bailboads—Wilder, Spears and Hardy.
Educatiob—Cook, Conper and Wilder.
Chabitt—Spears, Harvey and Cook.
Fibe DxrAUTUXBT—Docrdlngcr, Hardy and Spears,
Police—Wilder,Oook and Harvey.
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Customs—H. P. Farrow.
Deputy—H.T. Dunn.
Collector Internal Bevenu*-D. T.Dunn.
Deputy Marshal—T. W. Dexter.
Postmaster—Linus North.
Commissioner—0. H. Dexter.
Shipping Commissioner—G. J. Hall.
OCEAN LODGE No- 214,FA-M.
A
Regular communications of this Lodgo aro held on
the Arat and third Monday* in each mouth, at 7:80
o’clock, Pe Me
Visiting and aU brethren In good standing are fra*
temaily invited to attend.
J. J. SPEARS,
Secretary.
0. E. fland:
>EKS,^
SEAPORT LODGE, No. 68. I. 0. 0. F..
Meets every Tuesday nljjht^tclght ojclMk.
j7 T. LAMBR10HT, V. G.
JAB. E. LAMBBIGHT, P. A B. SecreUry.
MILLINERY!
Miss HETTIE WILLIAMS
IS NOW RECEIVING A LARGE AND WELL-SE
LECTED 8TOOK OF
Millinery & Fancy Goods,
LACES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,
Pattern Bonnets
lu all the latest styles, lust from New York.
A full line of
OollarettesiLadies’ITnderwear
CHILDREN’S DRESSES, Etc.
Dress-Making a Specialty,
In all the most fashionable etylea, orders prompt
ly filled. aprls-ly
SOUTHERN PINE.
A SPECIALTY!
Gents’Furnishing Goods
I hare Juat opened, In store ol Mean. Moore fc
“cCrsry, a handsome line of abova goods, which I
propoae selling st pricef
Never Before Known!
Cafi on me and *e« mjr stock, which was bought
txprevHly tor this market.
J. B. WRIGHT.
The Nation.
The future of the Northwestern
lumber industry has already been dis
cussed at some length in the light of
Prof. Sargent's investigation into the
forest wealth of the United States.
Forestry Bulletins covering several of
Hie Southern States have lately been
issued by the census officer, and it is
now, for the first time, possible to ob
tain an accurate idea of the extent
and composition of the great mara-
timo pine belt whioh stretches from
Virginia nearly to the Brazos. The
statement that at the present rate of
consumption twelve years wonld prac
tically exhaust the pine of the lake
region, must have seemed startling to
persons unfamiliar with the actual
condition of the Northwestern piner
ies. It will be no less a surprise even
to those best informed in regard to
Southern forests to learn that Louis
iana contains over eighty-four billion
feet of merchantable pine, or more
than was left standing at the end of
the census year in Michigan, Wiscon-
sis and Minnesota; or that Arkansas,
which has never been looked npon as
great pine State, contains, in addi
tion to its unrivalled bard-wood for
ests, over forty-one billion feet of yel
low pine, or, rather, more than the
amonnt of white pine credited to Wis
consin. Texas is believed to possess
some sixty-seven billion feet of pine.
These three States contain more than
one hundred and ninety billion feet of
merchantable pine, or more than
double the amonnt supposed to re
main in the three Lake States from
whioh of late years the country has
been chiefly supplied with white pine.
The Southern pine belt, running
through nine States, is believed to
b|ve contained, at the end of the cen
sus year, not less than two hundred
and twenty-five billion feet of mer
chantable pine, or enough to last at
the rate of consumption of that year
some two hundred and fifty years.
The value of this great body of tim
ber is enormous, and must have an
important influence in developing the
material prosperity of the Sonth.—
But because Southern forests contain
a greater amonnt of pine than they
have been supposed to contain, the al
most total destruction of the white
pine of the North is none the less a
national calamity. The Southern for
ests produce no pine which can take
the place of white pine. The long
leaved pine, of whioh the forests of
the Southern coast are largely com
posed, is one of. the most valuable
timber trees. The wood of no other
pine at all equals it in strength or fit
ness for all kinds of heavy construc
tion. It is, however, as compared
with white pine, difficult to work, es
pecially when seasoned, and so full of
resin as to be unfit for those uses to
which white pine is universally ap
plied. The yellow pine of Arkansas,
wbleh also oovero much of Lonisiana
and eastern Texas, is a valuable build
ing material, although inferior to the
long-leaved pine in strength, and
without the peculiar qualities of the
white pine. The destruction of the
white pine will deprive eastern Amer
ica of her most available and, all things
considered, most generally valuable
lumber, and Southern pine, whatever
its value, can never take i s place.
The study of the actual condition of
our forests indicates important com
mercial obanges which may be ex
pected to grow out of the changing
conditions of the lumber trade. New
Orleans seems destined, at no distant
day, to become one of the greatest
lumber-distributing and manufactur
ing centers of the world. Ite posi
tion with reference to vasts forests, its
commercial importance, and the ease
with which logs may reach it by river
and lake, point to this conclusion. A
great deal of Northern capital has
been invested daring the last few
months in Southern timber lands, and
the number of persons seeking snob
investsments is rapidly increasing.—
The best informed Northern lumber
men realise at last that the time bos
come when they must seek new fields
for their operations or abandon the
business entirely. These men are get
ting ready to move their mills, capi
tal and energy into the South, and
their attention is naturally directed
to the Gulf States. The outlook for
new investments of this sort in the
South Atlantie States is not favorable.
The four Atlantio pine States, in
cluding the whole of Florida, contain
less than twenty-fon? billion feet of
The meet accessible timber,
situated along the streams and rail
roads, has already been removed, and
much of the remainder has been in-
; ured in the manufacture of turpen
tine. Alabama and Mississippi con
tain great bodies of pine, but in the
three pine States west of the Missis-
sipp, pine forests in whioh the sound
of the logger’s axe has never been
heard, extends over tens of thousands
of square miles. Here, during the
next twenty-five years, will be seen,
we believe, the great lumbering oper
ations of the continent—if, indeed,
these forests can supply during the
next twenty-five yeans the demands
whioh may be made npon them.
It is not easy to foresee how great
these demands will be. The popula
tion pf an enormous territory must
procure its building materials from
these trans-Mississippi pineries.—
From the Brazos to the Sierra Neva
da of California, exoept on the high
and unusually inaccessible mountain
range of the Sonthem Rocky Moun
tain region, a tree fit to saw into
boards does not grow. The northern
Mexican platean is destitute of valno-
forests, and mast depend, with
growing prosperity, upon the United
States for its lumber. West of El Pa
so, the country will bo supplied from
the Pacific coat; east of El Paso—that
is, all of Texas and the provinces of
north-eastern Mexico—it most draw
its lumber from the pine forests im
mediately west of the Mississippi riv
er. It is needless to point ont how
rapidly western Texas is now becom
ing settled, or to estimate even the
growing demand made npon these
particular forests. Their position
with reference to a treeless, although
rich agricultural and grazing, region
inanres their entire destruction at no
very distant day.
The demand for Southern pine for
Northern consumption and export is
rapidly increasing also, and the conn-
try most not make the mistake whioh
it made first in regard to the pine
supply of Maine, and then in regard
to the pine supply of Pennsylvania
and Michigan, and which the Califor
nians are now making in regard to
their redwood, and conclude that, be-
the Southern States contain
vast quantities of pine the supply will
last forever. No forest is inexhausti
ble. The Southern forest, as it stands
to-day, is mature throughout and
ready for the axe. No young trees
are coming np to take the place of
those which have reached or nearly
reached their prime. The eastern,
first instituted by the Indians, it is
said, has long prevailed in the South
of carefully burning over every spring
the whole territory occupied by the
pine forest, to improve the poor and
scanty grazing the forests afford. A
more ingenious system for destroying
permanent valne of forests confd not
have been devised. A forest fire kin
died once a year does not find mueb
to feed npon and cannot burn long
enough to greatly injure the old trees,
bnt it sweeps np the hnmas from the
surface of the gronnd, destroys the
vitality of any seed that may have fal
len daring the winter, and extermi
nates all seedlings and young trees.
Looking forward fifty years, the fa-
tare of these forests is not brilliant,
and, unless some general change of
management can be initiated, their
extermination is inevitable. It may
take a few yoars less or a few years
more, as the country is prosperous or
otherwise, to find a market for the
two hundred and fifty billion feet of
lumber, which Prof. Sargent tells ns
these forests may be expected to con
tain; but unless five and grazing ani
mals can be excluded from them, their
days are numbered. The South has
only to turn to Maine, New York,
Pennsylvania or Michigan to learn
how quiokly forests which were only
a few years ago deemed inexhaustible
may melt away before reckless disre
gard of the simplest laws of nature.
THE SOUTHERN MUTUAL INSUR
ANCE COMPANY.
Athena Banner-Watchman, May 18th, 1883.
Mach has been said of late abont
the Sonthem Mutual Insurance Com
pany, of this city, attention being
called to it at this time by reason of
a “bill in equity” filed by the compa
ny, in whioh it prays the conrt for
construction of its charter.
As thereto some misapprehension
as to the objects of the bill, and as
the question involved is of interest to
many people in this State, we took
occasion to interview one of the offi
cers of the company in regard to it,
and herewith present the result:
Reporter—“I see that the surplus
fund of the Southern "Mutual to in lit
igation.”
Answer—“Not at all; the company
has not asked and will not ask any
direction from the coart as to its sur
plus.”
Reporter—“What, then, is the ob
ject of the bill ?”
Answer—“Simply this: The compa
ny has for many years been building
up a reserve fund which should be
large enough to give ample and un
questioned security to its policy-hold
ers. The management of the compa
ny now feel that they have reached
that point. They think that the re
serve fnnd to large enough for the
present business* ol the company, and
if, therefore, the surplus to not to be
increased farther, the question arises,
what shall be done with the annual
interest on the reserve fund, ? The
profits of the business, arising
from preminms, as you know, are now
divided annually among the policy
holders, and the object of this bill is
simply to ask the conrt how this in
terest is to be divided.”
Reporter—“What is the question
as its division Y’
'Answer—“The company has al
ways gone upon the idea that only
those who are now members of the
company have any righto in it—that
a member who has passed ont of the
company and severed his connection
with it has no farther concern in it,
and consequently, that any division
mutt be made among those only who
are members at the time the division
is made. Bnt doubts having arisen
os to the propriety of this action, the
company has applied to the courts
for direction in the premises. The
other idea is that any division most be
made amongst all who have ever bad
policies from the beginning.”
Reporter—“It wonld therefore seem
that a present policy-holder need not
take any steps in the matter at all.”
Answer—"Of course uot; no one
need take any steps. All the parties
are before the coarts, brought there
by the bill itself, nnd every one,
whether a present policy-holder or
not, to protected by the bill,, and the
rights of every one of them submitted
to the judgment of the conrt. The
bill filed by the company »entirely
impartial; it presents all the facts, it
lay» all the objections, difficulties and
intricacies of the case before tbe court,
and asks a decree which will protect
and do justice to not only tbe present
bnt past policy-holders.”
A SURPLUS FUND.
By reference to an interview with
an officer of the Southern Mutual In
surance Company, in another column,
the billm equity filed by that compa
ny to explained, and will doubtless be
read with interest and gratification
by. the stockholders. As will be seen,,
this bill does not look to a division of
the anrplns fond accumulated, bnt
simply asks for tbe sanction and opin
ion of the court about distributing to
its policy-holders tbe annual interest
which accrues from the securities on
hand, which will amount to over $00,-
000 and greatly lessen the expenses
of insurance in this reliable and pop
ular company. It is tbe height of
folly to think of dividing the accumu
lated funds of the company, os these
are the back-bone of the institution,
which gives it the prominence and
strength it objoys, and acts os a dou
ble safe-guard to those insured there
in- Even admitting that a division
of its sorpins capital be made, why
the pro rata part of each shareholder
would be most insignificantly small;
and, besides, it would require an out
lay of about half tbe fund to employ
accountants to audit the claims—the
remainder evidently passing into the
hands of lawyers. This suggestion is
tbe acme of folly, ami any stockholder
who to bugging tbe hallucination to
his bosom had as well dismiss the
idea at once.
As to the future management of
these fnnds, we refer ell concerned to
tbe reputation of the company end its
management for thirty-five years,
whioh is a sufficient guarantee to pol
icy holders that they will be managed
with wisdom and tbe strictest integ
rity.
Texas Siftings: Onr granger read
ers are earnestly nrgnd to raise as
large oropa as possible, as there will
be an extraordinary demand on them
for the necessaries of life between now
and Christmas. There are forty-two .
circuses raiding through tbs country,
and most of them are heading for
Texas. They have got to be support
ed, or they will not be able to pay for
their advertisements, hence,we request
oar granger friends not to fool away
their time with fishing poles, or in
banting dew-berries. We understand
that the lato| heavy vain prostrated
tbe oats. If that is so, the farmers
ought to be out in the fields straight
ening up those oats. Tbe circuses
have to be supported.
A lover and bis girl went inio a
Springfield, drug store the other day
to gut some “soda.” One ordered
“bovine," the other “vaccine,” suppos
ing that these two words, which were
hnng near the fouuiain, were the
names of some new syrups.
The hides of all t!u- cn.« in the U.
S. represent a commercial valne of
$10,000.000.
Rnssiu has lost $110,000, i-OO by the
nnti-Jowish movement.
