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NEW TURPENTINE ^STILLERY AT GAINESVILLE TAR AND CHARCOAL TO BE ALSO PRODUCED LOGTOt;N HAS LARGE SAWMILL, FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP, SCHOONER ON STOCKS AXE HANDLE FACTORY AT GAINESVILLE
RAFTSMEN NOW FLOATING IN THEIR LOGS December - 1866
Daily Picayune - Thursday, December 13, 1866 - p 8 c 2 from Gainesville Star
IMPROVEMENTS ON EAST PEARL
We get so much of our wharf timbers and lumber from East Pearl River, such noble dry docks are built there, not n few of our schooners, and since the greaters part of the pitch, tar and turpentine used and sold in this market, that we presume our readers will be highly pleased to learn as we do from the "Gainesville (Hancock County, Miss.) Star", that the Mississippi Turpentine works, established under Messrs.
Cole & Germain, directly from New York, have been set up on a large scale, and that the distillation of spirits which do not inebriate, is soon to begin.
We believe that there has been no turpentine distillery over there for some fifteen years, the turnentine being shipped crude.
The former distillery was nut up by our long time ago friend, Captain Leach, the special friend of John Faginnis, both now under the sod.
The apparatus is now about ready, and the "Star" says:
"As the piles of pitch pine have been increasing for weeks, until they rivnl the Tower of Babel, the Pyramids of Egypt, or any other huge and monstrous thing, in magnitude, you may look out for turpentine, tar and charcoal in quantities sufficient to supply the civilised world by about the middle of week after next. There will be no fizzle or break-down in this case, like that which happened in the late meteoric shower (expected excitement in the heavenly stars did not materialise). There will be no postponement on account of the weather or for other reasons."
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The "Star" editor has also been to I,optown, which, we will tell the "Picayune's" readers, is about halfway down from Gainesville to Pearlington where he found:
"Messrs. Carre & Weston's large saw mill employing in and about it some fifty (50 men, the leading business feature of the place. This
mill is fitted up with all the modern improvements known to this brand of business.
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