DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY AND GEOLOGICAL DEVELOPMEN Vol. 3 ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER, 1933 No. 9 THIRD VOCATIONAL FORESTRY SCHOOL plot, collect and mount leaf samples, giving CAMP INTERESTS 100 BOYS both the common and scientific nam es. All timber above 10 inches in diameter on the area was cruised for an estimate of board SCHOOL CAMP HELD JULY 24 TO AUGUST 12 AT CLARKESVILLE feet and cordwood conten t. Plans for im- A. & M. SCHOOL-FORTY-SIX RECEIVED CERTIFICATES OF VO- proving t he forest were outlined by each CATIONAL FORESTER-EARNEST WORK, ATHLETICS, EXCUR- student. Studies of harvesting, marketing SIONS, MOVING PICTURES, ENTERTAINING PROGRAMS FEA- and uses of wood were made. TURE SESSION-PERSONNEL OF STUDENT BODY VERY While this intensive work for second HIGH ORDER year boys was going on, the first year boys were instructed on other areas along simi- The third annual t hree-weeks session of Supervisor of vocational agricultural teach- lar lines to familiarize them with the in- the Vocational Forestry School Camp ing, has been a very successful camp man- struments to be used a nd the general prin- came to a successful conclusion Friday ager for the three sessions of the camp. ciples of work to be done next year. ni ght, August 11, at the Clarkesville Age Abo ut three-fourths of the time a llotted Every boy was interested and carried on ricultural and Mechanical School. Forty- to sch ool work each day was devoted to th e work assigned. There was plenty of six young men who had attended two camp work in the woo ds. In keeping with the work to do in the woods, in their class- sessions received certificates of Vocation- system used in vocational work, t h e j ob rooms and in their rooming quarters. But al Forester after completing six weeks of method of teaching was u se d. Each stu- while there was plenty of work, there were intensive training in tree ident ification , sil- dent was required to do each job and con- opportunities for play. Under th e able di- viculture, timber cruising; marketing and vince the teacher that he kn ew how to do re ction of C. 0. Parker, of the staff, ath- wood utilization, a course of work that it. letic contests were carried on between the qualifies the holders of certificates to do An area of abo ut 15 acres of wood land first a nd second year boys. Baseball, ten- non-technical jobs in forestry. was laid out. Each of the second year stu- nis, swimming, relays, basketball and horse- The students were a select list of high dents was req ui red to survey the tract, sh oe pitching were t h e principle athletic school boys from Smith-Hugh es rural high make a topographic map of it on graph pa- events. schools of t h e state who had studied fores- p er, using colors to show b oth physical fea- Each Saturday, a n excursion into the try under vocational agricultural teachers tures and forest types. They were required mountains was conducted. The first trip and had practiced forestry on sch ool for - to identify every species of tree on the was made to the top of Blo od Mountain ests and on home projects, and who had and to Vogel Park. An afternoon was tak- won camp scholarships in competitive for- en to visit Lake Burton, where swimming estry examinations, as well as for general contests were conducted. The second Sat- scholar ship a nd moral character. This se- urday excursion was to Tallulah Gorge, lect group of farm boys, intensely inter- where the boys were privileged to inspect ested in forestry, made instruction a the wonderful power plant at that place. pleasure. Numerous trips were made with teachers t d demonstrations in planting, thin- ning, tree identification, etc. A debate was RAPID GROWTH OF WHITE PINE ON POOR UPLAND co ndncted on t he subject: ResolYed that 50 per cent of the land not producing timber should be producing timber. Donald Young in Forest Worker tells of thinning and pruning operations on a forest of white pine planted on Laurel Branch, The club planted 1,000 loblolly pines on its project of 25 acr es. Some of the snb-' jects di scu ssed at the meeting created so Macon county, North Carolina on the Nan- much interest that the sessions were pro- tahala National F'orest. The site is 3,000 feet above the sea level, the soil a poor longed to two hours with ten minutes intermission. Tests were given and grades sandy clay loam underlain by granite and r ecorded. Dues of 10 cents each meeting somewhat eroded. In 1932 the largest tree was 8 inches in diameter and 45 feet high. The greatest were collected to pay the expense of a trip to the mountains to study t he for~>sts of that reg ion. h 3ight measurement between whorls was Carian not only co nducted t he club ac- 4.2 feet tivities, but made talk~ to oth er sc hools ; The forest was thinned in 1932, the wrote numerous articles on forestry for ~. tand being 680 trees per acre was reduced the press; did much work on school fores- to 523 per acre. The thinnings were sold try projects for Commer ce High School ; at the stump for house logs and rafters in 1 gathered tree seed; conducted a home for- the town of Highlands, N. C., at an aver- ~ age of 50 cents per tree. The remaining trees were pruned 6 to 20 feet up th e stems. In three years anoth- Herman A . Braddy, Pavo, winner firs t Herty prize and honor student in scholarship. estry project and advised many land owners as to forestry practices. Adams' Record Eugene Adams, Moultrie, planted 1,050 er thinning is intended. Through removals Braddy in winning first prize of the Her- pine seedlings, built firebreaks on his by thinning a gross income of $100 per ty award are as fo llows: He organized a home project; gathered pine seed and es- acre is anticipated with 300 trees per acre boys forestry club which issued a special tablished a small tree nursery; fought for- remaining for final crop and increased in- forestry edition of the Pavo News printed est fires; conducted demonstration t hin- come. on paper made by the state pulp and paper nings; wrote 85 column inches about for- laboratory at Savannah from Georgia estry for newspapers; addressed local gath- RECLAIMING GULLIED LANDS pines. The club broadcast a forestry pro- erings on forest fire protection; addressed gram over the Thomasville radio station; the Georgia Forestry Association at Sa- In Farmers Bulletin 1697, W. E. Mat- planted a large number of trees on farms vannah on "Why Forestry Appeals to the toon of the United States Forest Service, represented by the club membership; es- Vocational Agricultural Student". tells how trees, vines and grasses may be tablished firebreaks on farm lands; made Adams helped put up a forestry exhibit used to bind the soil and check erosion. a forestry exhibit at local fairs; secured and talked to about 200 people about the The greatest need for planting natural signatures of parents of school children to possibilities of making paper from Geor - soil binders in t he south, he says, is on prevent fires and cooperate in helping each gia pines. He has conferred with many eroded and abandoned farm lands. other to fight fires. Between 4,000 and 5,- land owners about thinning, planting and The author mentions the use of black 000 acres were involved. firebreak construction. His average grade locust, pines and cottonwood trees, honey- He won a prize from Holland magazine for two camp sessions was 94.00. suckle and kudzu vines, and Bermuda and for the best article on forestry. He made Other students deserving favorable men- lespedeza grasses for checking erosion The permanent signs directing to the school tion are: Delmas Galbreath, Vidalia; Os- bulletin carries information that concerns forest, conducted a home forestry project; wald Smith, Waresboro; Eugene English, a vast acreage of Georgia land. helped to conduct adult night classes in Clarkesville; I. J. Medders, Vidalia. 6 FORESTRY-GEOLOGICAL REVIEW ATHLETICS POPULAR I the Vogel State Park. Due to their efforts Gwinn-Nixon State Forest AT FORESTRY CAMP I and the natural beauty of this site, this Work has begun on the Gwinn-Nixon place will soon be one of the most beau- State Forest. This work is being done by Ninety-Five Per Cent of Students at tiful state parks in the South. Mr. Baskin the CCC camp No. 57, located in Burke Vocational Forestry Camp Par- has many other projects s~ch as road and county. The program calls for permanent ticipated in Some Form of Ath- trail construction, building of telephone fire breaks surrounding the property, letics-Second Year Group Won lines and lookout towers, removal of fire drainage of the low areas in the forest, Honors hazards, etc., now well underway. thinning and planting. An effort will be Camp No. 73, Towns County made to make the Gwinn-Nixon State For- Ninety-five per cent of the students at- This camp site located in the heart of est an ideal forest area. tending the Vocational Forestry School the mountains of North Georgia is said CCC Camp 74 Pets Camp, participated in some form of ath- "by authorities higher up" to be the most The pets of Superintendent Thompson's letics. Much credit for arranging and car- beautiful and ideally located camp in the Camp 74, in Stephens county, include 4 rying out the schedule of athletics is due East. Work, under the supervision of Mr. hound dogs, 2 pigs, a pair of bantam chick- C. 0. Parker, Carnesville, who was in C. J. Oliver, on the many projects is com- ens, a calf and 2 rattlesnakes We are charge of athletic activities. He not only ing along nicely. Foot trails have been waiting to see what new addition to the knows all forms of sports but has the built to the most advantageous lookout menagerie will be made. happy faculty of enlisting boys and spur- points. These with the truck trail roads Additional Acreage ring their competitive spirit. He was a will soon make this area readily accessi- Since the beginning of the ECW pro- favorite member of the staff. ble to the fire fighters who will be ready gram, approximately 250,000 acres have Among the sports at camp were base- at all times to go at the word, and when been added to the TPO areas of District ball, swimming, basketball, cross coun- a bunch of these young, broad-shouldered 3. Land owners are awakening to the im- try relay, tennis and horse shoe pitching. bronzed men of the 3 C camps once get to portance of forest fire protection. In baseball the first game was won by a fire "it won't be long then". the first year boys 9 to 6, but the two Camp No. 51, Indian Springs, Ga. subsequent games were won by second year Work at the Indian Springs State Park, DISTRICT SIX boys 18 to 1 and 18 to 8. under the supervision of Mr. Blanton In the swimming contest the first year Clements and his corps of foremen, is run- men won by a score of 19 to 15. In bas- ning full strength. The work at this Park Jack Thurmond, District Forester Savannah ketball the second year team won 14 to 11 and 28 to 17. The cross country relay race of 572 miles was won by second year boys in 24 minutes. In tennis matches Gillespie, second year man, won first place. The doubles were taken by Morris and Gillespie, second year boys. The horse shoe pitching contest was won by Parks and Hudson, second year men. The second year men were winners in total points by a large margin, the score being 25 to 5. DISTRICT TWO Everett B. Stone, Jr., Dist. Forester is progressing very fast, and in the near future it is due to be one of the show places of the entire South. Camp No. 69, Commerce, Ga. Work on private lands building roads, trails, and in forest fire prevention, is progressing nicely. This camp will operate on forest lands owned by the Chicopee Mills, which is the most ideal mill village in the United States. Camp No. 79, Cornelia, Ga. The forest work at this camp includes 6,000 acres of fine forest land on the Hunt estate, owned by the University of Georgia, ~n addition to many thousands of acres of private land. This camp is situated just above Cornelia, Ga. It is readily accessible and is an ideal site with a fine view of the Blue Ridge mountains. Work Progressing at P-53 Since the members of the Civilian Conservation Corps moved into camp at Hinesville, Liberty county, on June 1st, considerable work has been accomplished. Of course, the first few weeks were spent in getting the camp straight and living quarters established, then work in the woods started. To date, the various crews have finished twenty miles of truck trail, swamped and stumped twenty-two miles of fire break, cleaned out right of way for thirty miles of telephone line, cut, pealed and distributed five hundred cypress telephone poles. The surveying crews have mapped some thirty-nine thousand acres in detail and are now busy on another ten thousand acre block. They keep the mapping ahead of the fire break crews, as the truck trails Gainesville Camp Personnel Changes Lieutenant R. T. Whitney, Jackson DISTRICT THREE C. N. Elliott, District Forester Augusta and fire breaks are first plotted on the map and then worked out in the field. It was quite a problem in finding gravel to use in building the foundations for the County Camp, has been transferred to Eno- towers, so a little prospecting was done tah camp No. 55 as commanding officer Alexander Stephens Slave and a gravel deposit located. The tower to take the place of Captain Rickermore Cyrus Stephens, who was once a slave of crew constructed a short road to the de- who has gone to Raleigh to assume duties Alexander H. Stephens, still lives in Craw- p.osit, and are now hauling gravel to the there. Dr. Serocci, who has charge of the fordville. Uncle Cyrus, who is 89 years old, three tower sites which have been located Blairsville and Hiawassee camps, has been lives with his wife, Alcora, on a little hill and cleaned out. The only thing needed reassigned to the federal camp at Tree, overlooking the "Big House", where his old now is tower steel, as all the preliminary Georgia. "Marster" once lived. The little cottage in work has been finished. Since a tractor and Camp No. 55, Union County which Uncle Cyrus is spending his last days plow have been received, still better prog Blood Mountain trail which runs from is humble and vine clad, and he no longer ress can be made. Vogel State Park at Neels Gap through knows the splendor he knew in other days, Camp P-63 Manned by Veterans Slaughter Gap to the top of Blood Moun- but he sits and smokes and awaits the hour The personnel of Camp 63 at McRae, tain, has been rebuilt and widened and is when he shall see and serve the great Telfair county, Georgia, is composed of now practically finished. To visitors at the Stephens again. World War Veterans, who moved in dur gap it offers a wonderful hike and a view Steps will be taken whereby Uncle Cyrus ing the latter part of July. They are buSY in every direction that is awe inspiring. can be moved back to the "home place" as finishing camp construction and have sent Mr. Baskin and his staff of foremen has an attraction to visitors who will visit the one or two crews to the woods for the made excellent progress in their work on Alexander Stephens Memorial Park. (Continued on Page 8, Col 2) FORESTRY-GEOLOGICAL REVIEW MINERALS OF GEORGIA Brief Accounts of Occurences and Developments of the State's Leading Minerals Reported by THE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY MICA IN GEORGIA trical industry as an insulating material. by Washers, disks, and other shapes are Richard W. Smith, Assist. State Geologist stamped from the smaller sizes. The larger sizes are cut into various patterns such as Mica or isinglass is one of the best those on which the heating wires of elec- known minerals in Georgia because of its tric flat irons are wound. Hollow tubes for bright and shiny appearance and wide- insulating wires are built up from washers spread occurrence. The common varieties or by rolling thin splittings using shellac of mica in Georgia are biotite, or black as a bond. Some mica is still used for stove mica, and muscovite, or white mica. The windows. The value of mica for these uses !cATOOSAj ~ j ~ 0 -..'-.TOV/tJ'*!;- ~ i , 1 .....~ ., t ; . '5--,., r:o./ { I i \ !i \ > ._,.., Miec i 'lr c WALK< ,; "'r<'HITrJEI..(l,MURRAY r A " ., t "~ I .._. u ~ ~I 0 "'" oft<~~ N (l }t.l ' ' ' \R~( A a .v~ 'J"' ~ ~ ~ -j ~> u.. o GIL >IE R ........,.1 ""' '4t' 1Yr~ - ...:..._.,.;,.... 'fl' I"HIT \..\ CI-IATTOOGA...... ! ...o,.R.,o.o,_,_~.-P+I-C~K 4f:(~'l ;:_) ~ 7\" -; ....... "' J)AW.S;;"Ny) t_ Itt- ( ; H.A'L' L \DANKS. FIW ~_.Jc..,cLAliKEr " - ''"- r-;1' ---1PAVLDINtJr> 'J t-, ,- !-- I.a. HARALSOI<,.:..,.,. y 1 ' , 7l ,.0, ' / ' ~oIFlol',.SE"""~'OGLITHOJIPt i o1 .. 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Those of Georgia are ordinarily in the form of steeply inclined or nearly vertical vein-like bodies; but sometimes are irregular in form, appearing as lenses, chimneys, or irregular masses. Branching and sudden swelling and pinching are common. The size of the crystals and the distribution of the various minerals is very irregular. Feldspar is the most common mineral and often makes up 50 to 80 per cent of the rock mass. The feldspar near the surface has often been weathered to kaolin, a soft white clay. Quartz, the second most common mineral, is found in small pieces throughout much of the feldspar or its resulting kaolin, and in irregular masses, often in the middle or along the sides of the dike. The blocks of mica may be scattered throughout the pegmatite, but have a tendency to concentrate near the quartz masses and near the borders of the pegmatite. Large blocks of mica do not necessarily mean large sheets of clear, flat commercial mica. The sheets are often streaked or spotted with a thin coating of magnetic iron oxide which cuts down their transparency and reduces their resistance to electric currents. Pressure and movement during and after crystallization often result in imperfect blocks. In some cases the sheets have been distorted so as to be wavy or twisted, in others they have been cut or "ruled" into narrow strips. Often the blocks are wedge-shaped and are made up of small overlapping sheets, a type known as "A-mica." latter is the only one of commercial increases greatly with the size and clear- Mica mining is therefore unusually risky value and is the one commonly referred to ness of the sheets. because of the possibilities that the size of when the word "mica" is used alone. The waste from trimming the sheet mica the vein, the mica content, or the size and Crystals of muscovite mica vary in size and the blocks of mica that will not split quality of the individual mica crystals from tiny flakes to plates or blocks over into flat sheets is ground into sizes vary- may diminish to unprofitable proportions a foot across. These plates, if no thin- ing from "bran" mica to a powder so fine with little or no warning. ner than cardboard, are colored varying that it will pass a screen having 200 wires Sheet mica is found in the Piedmont shades of green, amber, or reddish-brown. per inch. This ground mica is used in Plateau and mountain sections of north Tliey may be split and re-split, however, great quantities in a variety of uses, such Georgia. It was first mined by the Indians into transparent and colorless sheets which as in the manufacture of artificial roofing or the Mound Builders who used it for are less than a thousan.dth of an inch in to prevent the surfaces from sticking, to ornaments and looking glasses. The early thickness, yet so strong and flexible that impart lustre to certain wall papers and white settlers knew of the mica deposits they may be bent nearly double. These paints, as a filler in the manufacture of and perhaps occasionally dug out sheets properties of mica, that is, its ability to soft rubber goods, to dust automobile tires for glazing the few windows in the more split into thin flexible transparent sheets, to prevent them from sticking to the molds primitive cabins, but it was many years be- together with its resistance to heat and in which they are finished, and as the fa- fore they were commercially mined. Sever- _to the passage of an electric current, make miliar Christmas tree "snow." al mines were opened in the mountains of the larger sheets of commercial value. Sheet mica of commercial size is found north Georgia between 1880 and 1885 and Sheet mica is used mainly by the elec- I only in pegmotite veins or dikes. Pegma- furnished large sheets of mica for glazing 8 FORESTRY-GEOLOGICAl. REVIEW stove windows. The industry declined with [ be built at the railroad to utilize the waste The Baxley Camp, No. 62, has named the jmportation of mica from India, in and scrap mica. itself "Camp Alabax", a combination of spite of a growing demand for mica as an Alabama and Baxley, since the boys hail insulator in the electrical industry. Under (Continued from Page 5) from 'Barna and Baxley. a protective tariff considerable mica was past two weeks. The work here consists mined in Georgia from 1900 to 1907, but chiefly of firebreak construction in Tel- Superintendent Sanders, Camp No. 65, following the panic of 1907 practically fair and Dodge counties. Jesup, evidently is a strong believer in none was mined until 1914. East Bulloch Acreage Increased "Early-to-bed and early-to-rise". His vet- The wartime demand for domestic mica Both acreage and membership in the erans start to work at 5 A. M. and are resulted in prospecting all over middle and East Bulloch T. P. 0. has increased since back at 2 P. M. north Georgia. The height of the mining the camp was established there. The or- took place in 1918, when 208,200 pounds ganization at the beginning of this year Superintendent Meyers, Camp No. 59, of sheet mica and 40 tons of scrap mica contained only 12,000 acres, but now we Fargo, is making Suwanoochee Creek look with a total value of $80,050 were report- have 68,000 acres signed in one solid body. ragged by the number of fire breaks he is ed. Since that time the demand for and We have applied for one wooden tower cutting across it. price of domestic mica has greatly declin- for this T. P. 0. and if approved, it will ed, and with it the mining of mica in Geor- adequately cover the protected area, as it These Okefenokee boys, Camp No. 72, gia. is in a compact body. I Waycross, under Superintendent Martin, Much of the mica mining in Georgia are headed right straight for the swamp was done by men with no capital or knowledge of the proper mining methods. These DISTRICT SEVEN itself on some of their breaks, but guess they'll slow down some when they strike men "ground-hogged" their way down, C. B. Beale, District Forester Wheeler's Fortune on the edge of the Oke- skimming out the cream of the sheet mica Waycross fenokee! Hamp Mizell says they'll run into and wasting the smaller sizes and scrap mica. As soon as the sides of the untimbered pit started to cave in or they struck Notes on Emergency Conservation Work-District 7 a "jamb" there. The boys down at St. George, Camp No. water or hard rock, off they went to an- The nine C. C. C. camps in this district 71, are constructing a break straight down other outcrop, too often neglecting to pay are getting down to business now on the Trail ridge, but some of them are still the owner his promised royalty. Such methods leave the surface so disturbed that future mining is much more expensive than it should be. The proper methods, while requiring some outlay at the beginning of the mining, would have resulted in the recovery of all the available mica at a minimum cost. Mica mining is at best a considerable gamble and should be undertaken only by an experienced miner. The miner can seldom afford to buy the property outright, but must lease the mineral rights on a roy- million and a half acres of land scheduled to be covered by work in thirteen counties. Grubbing out a strip of land 25 feet wide across hill land, cypress and pine flats, hardwood hammocks, and creek swamps means plenty of work if you ask a C. C. C. man about it. No one ever realizes what a tremendously greater portion of these old burned over pine stumps lies underneath the ground until one witnesses pile after pile of these stumps along mile after mile of fire break. Some one hundred miles of breaks have been grubbed wondering where the "ridge" is. Some of the boys at Homerville, Camp No. 52, may not be able to tell you how far it is to Thelma, but they can estimate the distance by the number of swamps they cut through. Camp No. 68, Douglas, has a grandstand and ball park right at their door. Wonder what those camps in the mountains are doing for a ball ground? alty basis. The common royalty paid by a and cleared so far. mica miner to the propE?rty owner is one- A new method of logging has been in- ' . The 58th annual ~e.eting .of the Amer- sixth, one-eighth, or one-tenth of the sales troduced in this section. No longer are [Ican Fo~estry Assoclatw~ Will be lteld at price of the mica; the amount depending trees felled with an axe or saw by cutting Francoma, New Hampshire, on September on the size of the deposit and the distance I off near the base according to orthodox ~ 6: 7' an~ ~ Seven other fo~estry. or~a~- transported The accompanying map shows the loca- pract'Ice. Inst ead, a crew set s t o work dI' gging around a veteran pine until one thinks I. z m atwn the s w1thm that rally. Secretar sa y me of Agre~gI.iCOunltuwriell JO!ll Wal- tion of the most important mica mines in they have about dug themselves through lace and .Robert Fechner, director of the Georgia, most of which are not now in op- to China, and theE ;deep in the earth conservation work, are both on the pro- eration and some of which have not oper- (maybe 6 feet deep) 'two men get down I gram ated for years. Mines and undeveloped prospects are numerous in certain counties, such as Upson, Monroe, Pickens, Cherokee, Jackson, Hall, Lumpkin, Union, and Rabun. Certain other counties, often with in the hole with a cross-cut saw and saw 1 1 off tap roots and the tree falls, stump, tap Leading Tree Planters root and all. My, wouldn't Paul Bunyon The greatest individual plantings of tree get a kick out of this! seedlings are those of a New Yorker and a Georgian. Beginning in 1915, Thomas F. similar bedrock, have either no pegmatites One fellow over at Camp 52, Homerville, Luther, Mechanicsville, Saratoga county, or ores containing little or no commercial thinks a T. P. 0. is a totem pole. New York, has planted 5,473,600 trees. mica. Mica mining is by no means a thing of the past, although but few mines would A foreman down in Camden, Camp No. 60, asked for a tough assignment and he got it all right. About a 10 foot growth of In Georgia, James Fowler, Soperton, in Treutlen county, beginning in 1926, has planted 1,500,000 slash pines. pay at the low prices prevailing at this gallberry and palmetto all the way from time. The electrical industry is consum- Colesburg to Forest View. Woudn't be sur- 1 State Forester's Meeti~g Place ing increasing quantities of sheet mica and prised if he doesn't run on to a dinosaur The annual meeting of the Association new uses are constantly being found for in that jungle. of State Foresters will be held this year in ground scrap mica. A general rise in prices Indiana, with R. F. Wilcox, State F'ores- would result in the opening of new and old Superintendent Rogers' Camp No. 70, at ter, as host. mica mines in Georgia. The chances of suc- Nahunta, looks like a South Sea island vil- The meeting date has not been set, but cess will be greatest in the areas contain- !age by the way his office and the army it is usually held in October. A three-day ing a number of mines close to railroad headquarters are covered with palmetto itinerary of forest areas of Indiana is transportation so that a grinding mill can thatch. 1 planned.