Volume 1 ATLANTA, GA., JULY, 1931 Number 7 HIGH QUALITY PAPER FROM SOUTHERN WOODS H. G. SPAHR, PIONEER GEORGIA FORESTRY GEORGIA'S RANK IN LUMBER PRODUCTION Progress Made by United States Forest Products Laboratory in Making Paper from Southern Woods Very Encouraging. H. G. Spahr, Atlanta, is a pioneer in forestry work in Georgia. Mr. Spahr is a graduate in forestry at Pennsylvania State University and was for a time supervisor of the Cherokee National Forest. He be- Census Report Shows Georgia Maintains Prominent Place in Production of Pine Lumber, Shingles and Lath. At the recent session of the Georgia Forestry Association, Dr. Eloise Gerry, connected with the United States Forest Products Laboratory, brought samples of paper made of southern woods at the laboratory. High class white bond papers made of 100 per cent slash pine, by the sulphate process and by the sulphite process were displayed; also white paper of high quality mad e of 50 per cent slash pine and 50 per cent black gum. Newsprint made of 90 per cent ground wood of slash pine and 10 per cent sul.,hite slash came secretary of the Georgia State Highway Department and remained active in forestry matters. His training in forestry and his appreciation of the possibilities of Georgia forests made his services quite valuable. Mr. Spahr, Bonnell Stone and C. B. Harman canvassed the state and roused the interest that resulted in promoting the Georgia Forestry Association and legislation that created the Georgia Forest Service. It was the late James Hollomon who dubbed the trio the "Forestry Crusaders". According to the decennial report issued by the Bureau of the Census in Washington, Georgia ranked high in the output of lumber and lumber products in 1929. The report reads in part as follows: "The production of yellow pine lumber in 1929 was reported by 21 states, in five of which, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, the output was more than one billion feet each". The aggregate amount of pine lumber sawed in Georgia during 1929 was 1,386,250,000 board feet for lumber, laths and shingles. The number of mills reported pine; also newsprint made of 50 per cent , in operation in the state was 1,692. sulphite and 50 per cent ground wood of The total number of board feet of hard- slash pine were exhibited. wood sawed in Georgia including such spe- Beautiful white book paper was made cies as ash, chestnut, hickory and elm, of half black gum and half slash pine by used for lumber, laths and shingles was the sulphite process; also half slash pine sulphite and half ground wood 'of black 196,411,000 board feet. Of the 1,692 mills listed for Georgia, gum. Fine white paper made of 100 per 1,658 were classes as No. 1, 2 and 3, cut- cent black gum was among the samples. ting less than 5,000,000 board feet of Dr. Gerry stated that the laboratory lumber during the year. had not produced on a commercial scale but the findings were available to commercial interests. In a recent issu e of the "Log of the Lab", issued from the Forest Products Laboratory, the following is taken from an article entitled "New Pulpwoods and Wood Pulps" : "Production of strong white sulphate pulp from southern pines, a high-grade and very useful paper-making material developed through improved cooking and bleaching methods. This product is of Particular interest to the established kraft industry. "Book paper from south ern pines and gums. A process involving two-stage bleaching. This is "uow in commercial (Cont'd on page 2, Col. 1) ... H. G. SPAHR, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FORESTRY PIONEER. New Naval Stores Laboratory Carrying out the provisions of an act of last Congress, a new naval stores station is to be established at Olustee, Florida, near Lake City and in the heart of the great turpentine producing area of Georgia and Florida. The laboratory is in charge of the United States Bureau of Chemistry and Soils and will work on distillation and marketing methods. The Southern Forestry Experiment Station has the forest production phases under its control. Research work by these two federal agencies is expected to develop information that will mean better days for the naval stores industry. 2 GEORGIA FOREST LOOKOUT GEORGIA FOREST LOOKOUT MARVIN LLOYD HAS BEST VOCATIONAL CAMP BEGINS Published Monthly By PAPER YOUNG HARRIS JULY 27 GEORGIA FOREST SERVICE To Marvin Lloyd of Chamblee goes the honor of the best paper on forestry turn- State Capitol Atlanta, Ga. ed in during the recent examination held Boys Selected~Teachers Chosen- C. A. Whittle, Editor for selecting students from all over the Great Three Weeks' Program Staff of the Georgia Forest Service state to attend the forestry camp at Young Planned for Mountain Camp. B. M. Lufburrow, State Forester......Atlanta Har ris College this summer. C. A. Whittle, Director of Education and While Mr. Lloyd had some close com- Utilization ....................... ....... ...... Atlanta petition for this honor, his paper was a The stage is set for the first Vocational Everett B. Stone, Jr., Assistant State very excellent one and showed that he Forestry camp to be held at Young Harris Forester ................................ Gainesville H. M. Sebring, Asst. State Forester, .................................................. Macon C. Bernard Beale, District Forester, had spent much time in for the examination. preparing himself College, July 27-August 15. Fifty-six boys were selected from vocational schools to attend this camp which will be the first ............................ .............. Waycross of its kind ever held in this country. W. D. Young, District Forester............Rome Jack Thurmond, District Forester, ---- Savannah Charles N. Elliott, Assistant Director of Education ----- Atlanta H. D. Story, Jr., District Forester, The camp will be held in the heart of the Georgia highlands for three weeks. Approximately 20 teachers will 'Je selected by the state vocational direc;or s to attend the camp. ------ -- Alban y W. G. Wallace, Dist r ict Forester, ...................... ....-- -- --- Columbu s Mrs. Nellie Nix Edwards, Secretary to the State Forester .... .........................Atlanta Mrs. R. S. Thompson , Secretary to Direc- tor of Education and Utilization, Atlanta Besides the regular work that will be ::lem on strated by the members of the ""}eorgia Forest Service staff and ~<>uied out in detail by the boys, the directors of the camp plan to present special programs of motion pictures, lectures by High Quality Paper-Cont'd. prominent men in forestry and allied subjects, and trips will be made to rayon production in certain southern mills. Twostage methods of bleaching have been ex- mills, paper mills, saw mills, experiment station and national forests. tended to many other types of pulps in Besides teaching practical forestry, an the North and W est as well as in the earnest effort will be made by the direc- South. " Production of sulphite and gro und- tors of the camp to build up leadership among the boys who may be our forest- wood pulps from young slash pine. Satis- ers of tomorrow. factory newsprint papers have been made , at the Laboratory by combining these pulps in proper proportions. This devel- GEORGIA GETS APPALACHIAN opment is noteworthy, as heretofo re the southern pines, because of their resinous TRAIL CONFERENCE FOR 1933 character and high percentage of heartwood, h ave not b een con sid ered suitab le for sulphite or groundwood pulps. H owever, as recently pointed out by Dr. C. H. Herty, a specialist in southern forestry matters, young slash pine is practically free from heartwood and is low in resin. Moreover there is an abundance of this. species coming in. as second growth on the cut-over f orest lands of the South. Special acknowledgment is due to Dr. During the annual meeting of the A'p- palachian Trail Conference at Gatlinburg, Tennessee, in the edge of the Great Smoky MARVIN LLOYD , CHAMBLEE Mountain National Park, June 12, 13 and 14, the Georgia delegation consisting of WASHINGTON ATTORNEY HIKES GEORGIA six members from the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club were able to secure the conference for 1933 at Mt. Oglethorpe, MOUNTAINS in the Tate Estates, the "End of the Myron H. Avery of Washington , D. C., Trail." Herty for his contribution in this connec- Admiralty attorney for the United States Each section of the trail was repre- tion. Shipping Board, was a recent guest of the sented at the meeting by delegates. An "Sulphite, groundwood and semi-chemi- Georgia Appalachian Trail Club. Mr. interesting acount was given of the work cal pulps from black gum or other hard- Avery arrived in Atlanta on June 3, went being done on each section. Georgia woods, valuable as filler f or newsprint and from there to Mt. Oglethorpe in the Tate stood high among the leaders. The f ol- book papers. 'Black' gum happens to be Mountain Estates, Pickens County, and lowing is a list of "jobs" done by the club among the whitest of all known woods and hiked northward over the Appalachian since its organization, eight months ago: requires little or no bleaching according Trail to Wallace Gap, 170 miles. He was 1. 40 wooden signs erected. to its use." accompanied along the route by members 2. 2,000 metal markers put up. Judge Ogden Persons, Forsyth, who is an official of the Georgia Forestry Asso- of the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club. Mr. Avery said at the Appalachian Tra il Club conference in the Great Smoky 3. 120 miles maintained. of trail constructed or ciation and member of the Advisory Com- Mountain P ark that he had no idea of the 4. Several hikes taken to scenic or mittee on State Forest-Parks, is spending magnitude and beauty of the Georgia historic spots. the summer in Europe. mountains, or of the extensiveness of the 5. Issuing of the Georgia Appalachian forests; that until a short while ago he Trail Club booklet. "Georgia is one of the most productive was one of those who did not kn ow that The club has, in addition, advertised states in the Union so far as its timber is concerned . . . Savannah, like no other city in the state, profits by the wood re- Georgia had a ny mountains, but that during this trip he had thoroughly learned the mountains of North Georgia to a large extent and opened up several beauty serve of t his area."-Savannah Press. that part of his geography. spots to the public. GEORGIA FOREST LOOKOUT 3 FIRST DISTRICT breaks. In this way the organization will W. G. Hughes, who also work on fire be able in a few years to have its lands breaks and telephone lines. Manning the W. D. Young, District Forester blocked up in small sections, and lessen three lookout towers are Charlie Zanders, Rome the cost per acre each year. Zimmie Petty, and Chester Cameron. Last year-the first year-the T. P. 0. Confronting the above organiz.ation, had five members and 17,045 acres. This headed by Capt. Eldredge, who often re- Reinhardt College Grows Seedlings year the membership has been increased sponds to fires himself, is the task of spot- During the spring Mr. L. T. Hagood, to twelve with 21,078 acres. Before work, ting and suppressing the fires on this for- Vocational Teacher at Reinhardt, became begins, a good many small land-owners est. Such would be impossible were it not interested in growing different tree seed- will join, as several have already express- for the splendid type of men in the per- lings, not only for the forestry project ed their desire to do so. W. I. Stafford, sonnel and the coordinated systemized ef- instituted at that school, but for the gen- Secretary-Treasurer-Patrolman Liberty fort in which each fire is handled. Get- eral planting up of all the unimproved County T. P. 0. ting at the fire while it is still young is and abandoned land on the school proper- the motto on Suwannee Forest, and it is ty., Long County_ T. P. 0. Formed this motto spirit backed by the prompt, Four 4 x 12 foot beds were construct- On May 12, 1931, a meeting was held courageous, and determined effort of these ed and planted to Loblolly Pine, White in the county court house at Ludowici, Ga. men that the fire loss on Suwannee For- Ash, Black Locust, and Yellow Poplar. Fourteen landowners were represented at est is kept at a highly satisfactory mini A good stand resulted in every bed this meeting and the Long County Tim- mum. with exception of that one planted to Yel- ber Protective Organization was formed. low Poplar. Hon. T. L. Howard was elected President, ~~old Man" Graddy Mr. E. B. Rimes, Vice-President, and Mr. Woodson Graddy, seasoned and vigor- Dawnville School Plants Slash Pine T. D. Houston, Secretary-Treasurer. To ous ranger on Suwanee Forest, was feared Mr. I. E. Carson, Vocational Teacher at Dawnville School, Whitfield County, planted 2000 seedlings this spring on the school demonstration forest; one thousand of which were Slash Pine. The slash pines were planted for experimental purposes and are doing nicely in their new home in north Georgia. begin with 11,800 acres were signed and we hope to increase this amount before August to 20,000 acres. This organiza;ion will be run on a per acre assessment. \ patrolman will be employed to direct ~ll the work, including fire-break cono;truction and patrol over the area. The Organization now has eight members and we hope to double this number by all law violators. With daring and im partial justice, "Old Man" Graddy rode the woods, "fit" fires and apprehended violators with impeccable devotion to his duty. He even had his own son arrested for hunting in a pasture which had been set aside as a game reserve. Getting along in his seventies, "Old Man" Graddy felt he could not last much within the next two months as interest in longer, came in to the office of the Su New Acres Added to Established fire protection in Long county is very perior Pine Products Company at Fargo T. P. O.'s in First District high. laid his pistol and badge on the desk, and Two thousand acres were added to the Martha Berry T. P. 0. in Floyd county and 6000 acres were added to the Polk county T. P. 0. in Polk county. ' Efforts are being made to establish SEVENTH DISTRICT E. Bernard Beale, District Forester Waycross announced his resignation. Captain El dredge, forest manager, agreed to let him go, and Woodson Graddy went back to his remote flatwoods shanty to die, suf fering from heart disease. new T. P. O.'s in Dade, Floyd, Bartow, and Walker counties. Several of the owners in these counties have already been Fires Spotted While Young on Suwannee Forest One day not long before his death Graddy summoned Capt. Eldredge. He directed Capt. Eldredge as to the manner in which he wished to be buried. The fj.re signed up. Stretching over the lower pllll't of Clinch crew, with whom he had fought many a With the establishment of T. P. O.'s in the above named counties, the protected area in District No. 1 would be increased ~er 125,000 acres. county and covering half of Echols county is an area of flatwoods, 200,000 acres in extent, comprising Suwannee Forest. Headman over this great tract of land is fire, was the only fraternity in his hard life toward which his remembrance was kind and perhaps even fond. It was his agreement with Capt. Eldredge that the SIXTH DISTRICT Capt. I. F. Eldredge, forester of the Su- fire crew should bury him, without clergy perior Pine Products Company, operators or ceremony. His grave was to be brick Jack Thurmond, District Forester Savannah of Suwannee Forest. ed in. It is the job of Captain Eldredge to Capt. Eldredge promised to carry out protect this forest from fire, provide for his wishes, but "Old Man" Graddy was satisfactory restocking of the cut-over not to be satisfied until Capt. Eldredge 'Liberty County T. P. 0. Expanded areas, and direct its management for a had had the brick unloaded at the site of On May 16, 1931, the Liberty County sustained yield of timber, turpentine and the grave, and the old man had made a Timber Protective Organization met in other forest products. careful estimate to determine if there Hinesville, Georgia, and made up its budg- Assisting Capt. Eldredge in the year- were sufficient brick to properly entomb et and arranged its work .plans for the round fight against fire is a basic person- him. flaeal year, July 1, 1931, to June 30, 1932. nel of one assistant forester, W. M. Ott- Six weeks later, Graddy died. Capt. El The per acre assessment was fixed at meir, who has charge of the logging and dredge, true to his p:r;omise, had a coffin "6.8 ceJi!ts on each land owner. The same lumbering, and a crew of ten men. Chief built and went, accompanied by Mrs. El work plan used last year was adopted for ranger in charge of fire protection is J. M. dredge, with the fire crew to bury "Old the coming year. The Secretary-Treasur- Cameron, assisted by Alex. Hunter, J. M. Man" Graddy in a brick tomb in the fam er-Patrolman was reelected. It was also Young, Jr., Josh Lanier, J. E. Padgett, ily plot. There, not far from his native &greed that an assistant patrolman be em- and Baxter Petty. shanty, in the remote wilds of the flat- :ployed for February and March, 1932. Each ranger has a district to patrol, in- woods, the Old Man, who had lived fear- The plan of fire-break work is to main- specting turpentine chipping, and watch- lessly, was lowered in his grave by his tain the 75 miles already constructed ing for fires. Supplementing the rangers fellow fire-fighters, without prayer or song and to construct 50 miles of new fire- is a fire crew composed of Warren and or rite, as he had desired. 4 GEORGIA FOREST LOOKOUT EDITORS ENTERTAINED DESTRUCTIVE ELM DISEASE TRAIL CLUB BULLETIN AT VOGEL FOREST PARK The "Dutch Elm Disease" which is prov- The Georgia Appalachian Trail Club At the close of the annual meeting of the National Editors' Association in Atlanta in June, excursions were made to various points of interest in the state, among them Vogel Forest Park at Nee! Gap in the Blue Ridge mountains. This park is operated by the Georgia Forest Service. ing very destructive to elms in Europe has appeared in Ohio, in spite of all efforts ;o keep it out of this count.ry . If it gets 1 start it may prove as disastrous as ch estnut blight has proven to native chestnuts. Wilting of twigs is th e first visible sign of the disease. If an examination has just issued a new trail guide to the mountains of North Georgia. This unique publication tells of interesting spots that may be reached by automobile and trail, touches on Cherokee lore, gives interesting bits of mountain history and carries several articles of general interest. The editors were thrilled with the view reveals the sapwood of the twigs to have The booklet is the first of its kind to be and beauty of the situation. Hon. Bon- brown stains further evidence of the issued in Georgia. nell H. Stone, member of the State Board ::lisease is obtained. of Forestry and secretary of the Georgia The Dutch Elm Disease Laboratory esForestry Association, spoke to the editors tablished at Wooster, Ohio, will welcome FEDERAL FORESTRY PRO- about the park program of the state and information as to the appearance of the of Georgia's great forest resources. An disease anywhere. GRAM IN SOUTH. exhibit relating to forest-parks and for- The annual report of Director E. L. Dem- est activities of the state in one of the buildings. was presented AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION MEETING mon of the Southern Forest Station at New Orleans says: Experiment Moore-Wallace The annual meeting of the American "Among the increased Federal appropriForestry Association was held at Ashe- ations made available to the Southern Sta- These foresters! They must have some ville, June 3 and 4, and was well attend- tion this fiscal year (1931) are the follow- sort of an attraction about them. The ed. A program of unusual interest was ing: $25,000 for the initiation of the For- Georgia Forest Service is interested to presented with such speakers as Dean H. est Survey in the southern bottomland learn that its youngest district forester, S. Graves of Yale, Secretary R. L. Wil- hardwood region; $10,500 for growth and Mr. Gordon Wallace, Columbus, took unto bur of President Hoover's cabinet, H. H. yield studies in the bottomland hardwoods; himself a new boss on May 31, 1931. Miss Bennett of the United States Bureau of $10,000 for investigations of the relation- Vivian Louise Moore, of Chamblee, from Soils, and R. Y. Stuart, Chief of United ships between fire and resin yields in na- which town Mr. Wallace hails, is the States Forest Service. val stores operations; and $10,000 for in- bride. Much interest was taken in the exhibit vestigations of methods of cutting to insure The Georgia Forest Service wishes to features of the Association, several fed- natural reforestation in second-growth yel- extend to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace sincere eral and state agencies being represented. low pine stands. wishes for continued happiness. shall now fall to wondering whether B." or "C. B." will be next. We "E. The excursions to points of interest in the forested mountains also proved interest- "In addition to these regular allotments, cooperation is .carried Station on with ing to the visitors. the Bureau of Plant Industry, whereby two forest pathologists are assigned to the Sta- APPALACHIAN FOREST EXPE- Improvements at Indian Springs tion Staff. Considerable assistance in the RIMENT STATION COUNCIL Improvement continues at Indian form of temporary help has been furnished An interesting session of the Council of the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station was held in Asheville, North Caroli~a, June 3 to which a number of persons were invited. Springs. A 340 foot guard fence has been co"lnpleted around the parking area. Many picnic and other organized groups visit the state park and the last few Sundays have seen large crowds visiting the park. by a number of Sta~e Forestry Departments in the South. The Station has the advantage of close cooperation with a great number of Federal, state and private agencies throughout the southern region." Various lines of work of the station carried on under E. A. Frothingham, di- r ector, were outlined by members of his staff, showing a wide range of important research. Georgia was represented at the meeting by State Forester B. M. Lufbur- r ow, Bonnell H. Stone, secretary of the Georgia Forestry Association, . and C. A. Whittle, Director of Educatioa of the Georgia Forest Service. Forestry Graduates The Forestry School of the Georgia State College of Agriculture graduated 13 foresters in June. The school now has an enrollment of 63, the largest in its history. Pr ospects for an increased enrollment next session is reported. This school of forestry is the oldest in the South. "Georgia is one of the most productive states in the Union so far as its timber is concerned . . . Savannah, like no other city in the state, profits by the wood reserve of this area."-Savannah Press. GROUP OF STUDENTS, CARNESVILLE, STUDYING FORESTRY.