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Prior to using cups, when they were cuting boxes in pine trees. they had axes about twelve inches ling, and about 4 inches wide at top cut coming to a point in the bottom, abnd it was cut just as smooth as glas. at that ime they had what they called a dip iron. It was about six inches across the top coming to small oval at the bottom, any one familiar to use one of those tools could easily clean out the cum from the box with one stroke. I know this to be a fact, because I used one of those tools to gather gum when I was just a boy opld enough to carry a small bucket of gum and empty it into a large dip baral, the mule team driver would scater the dip (??) throughout the turpentine era. The same team driver would come back a few days later, and put a lid on the barrels of crude gum, roll themn up on the wagon on two long skids dragging behine the wagon the skids were about twelve to fourteen feet long, they would then stand them up in the wagon. Those barrels weighed between five and six hundred pounds. Those skids were made of small long leaf yellow pine trees, about 5 to 5 inches diameter at the bfig end.
A barrel of crude gum would weigh 500 to 600 pounds. Int the later part of 1800, the turpentine operator would save the turpentine whtat they would get from processing the crude gum but they ahd no market for rosin and they would dig a long and deep ditch running into a large hole at the end. they du(??)
In the early 1900, a market for rosin developed. Therefore, these turpentine operator, finally pu t their labor to breake this rosin and take it back to the still and rerun it and put it in barrels, and was later graded and inspected by a man appointed by the government through the Turpentine Association, and they relized quite a large income from this operation. They had a large boiler or kettle, made out of copper, with five bricks built all around it and with a furnice under the kettle to fire tand a place for the smoke stach that would go all the way over the top of the building. this boiler or kettle, would process 10 to 12 barrels of crude gume at a time. They had a large water tank I would guess gto be about 10 or 12 feet tall, and 10 feet in diameter at the bottom, and coming smaller at the top, two or three feet smaller. They had a large copper coil in this tank. similar to tank Brewers, used to made whiskey. I presume that his process of processing turpentine, is what gave some one the idea to begin to make moon shier whiskey in Hancock County in the early 1920s. Paid Labor for dipping a barrel of crude gbum b efore the 19200 were 50 cents per barrels - and scraping the gum from the faces of the trees were 40 cents per barrels. In the September 191 (?) we had a huricane with a lots of raibn before the styorm hit here, and blowed many pine trees down. Edward hines lumber Company of Chicago, Ill. owned many thousands acres of fine long leaf timber land from just above Kiln Miss. to Lumbertown, Miss.
About a week after the storm a man by the name of Mr. Charlie Pettibone came to Kiln, representing the above named company. He contacted a few people who had ox team. He had obtained a pieling contract of varis sizes and length. At that gime nearly every family had one and three ox team, consisting of three four or five yoke to a tea. some people had wagons, with (8) eight wheels, four in the front and four in the back, similar to our modern heavy duty trucks. Also, some still had what they called a log or arralog and Trail cart. Caralogs (carralog) were 6 1/2 to 7 feet tall, and tail carts were 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 feet tall, and they would strattly tghe logs and pieling. The carralog had a large roller mounted just on top of the axel on the carralog. With each end small rounded in each ent that would sitin a rounded slot in a strong astations any pice of strong lumber, with a beam well stationed on this roller about sever or eight feet, with a slot drilled through the tip end, with roller placed in that slot, a rope size one inch or so fasten to the back end of the carrylog that would be stationary, the other end would be fasten to roller fasten to the back part of carralog frame.
(Included is a sketch of a carryalot) (There was no copy attached to the copy that I typed this from. Charles H. Gray)
Moran, Sylvester G., Sept 9, 1982, #19 Woodward Circle, Long Beach, Mississippi 39560. Born Aug. 21st 1893. (From a typed copy left at the HCHS office. See VF “MORAN”)
Moreau, Hancock County voting precinct personal property was appraised by F. C. Bordage, County assessor at $15,664.00 in 1895.
Moreau, Charles G. - By Nannie-Mayes Crump
Fifty years ago Charles G. Moreau established the Sea Coast Echo at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and throughout that 50 years he has continued not only as owner but as editor of that same newspaper. Now on the occasion of the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the life of the paper, the entire community pays tribute to Mr. Moreau as editor, publisher, friend, and citizen.
Charlie Moreau as he is known in the newspaper world of the state, is more intensively interested in the weekly publication of his paper than in his many other financial adventures, seeing in his paper more than just a source of income, since to him, the aim of a newspaper is first and foremost that of service to his community. The kindly consideration with which he meets every problem of his weekly issue from the briefest item to the largest story, is indicative of his keen appreciation of the people of the community and this is due entirely to Mr. Moreau's conception of what a paper should do for the people whom it reaches. The compelling philosophy of his life is bound up with this intrinsic newspaper service and the cumulative success of the Echo is the result of that intensification of purpose in the following of an ideal.
Few newspapermen in Mississippi have more surely merited the title of dean of publishers and editors than has Mr. Moreau. Although he did not establish his own paper until January 1892, he began his newspaper career as a local correspondent in Bay St. Louis two or three years earlier, when he served several nationally known newspapers as feature writer, particularly of sports events on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This early interest in the world of sports has been conducive to a sympathetic appreciation of sports activities thru-out his period as owner of his own paper, and oft times he is found on the local sidelines, not only as a fan but as an expert who knows the game and with an eye to "touching up" the sports stories which appear in the columns of the Echo.
As a news-gatherer Mr. Moreau has no superior. He knows everyone in his community, their families, and relatives, and he is keenly alive to all the multitudinous happenings which affect them. He has a "nose for news," in the language of the newspaper world, and his tenacious memory puts away little things here and there until the right moment arrives to use them to catalogue the news which they herald.
The writing of editorials is perhaps Mr. Moreau's greatest delight in his chosen profession. He has acquired through a long life of dealing with the public a philosophy compounded of humanity, politics, business and culture which fit him especially well to express his opinions of the scene about him, and his editorials glow with the reflection of the many themes which run together to form his well rounded impressions.
Mr. Moreau has made a financial success in the little city which he delights to call his home, but the ground work of his financial structure has had its foundation in The Sea Coast Echo. In order to house his paper in its own home he constructed the Echo building on Front street, overlooking the sparkling blue waters of the Bay of St. Louis which he loves so well. It is interesting to state as an historical fact that The Echo was the first newspaper in the entire state of Mississippi to own its building, but it has been the forerunner of many other similarly owned edifices in the years following the lead taken by Mr. Moreau in this particular building field. The Echo building which houses the paper and the job printing business on the lower floor in half of the structure, contains space for a store adjoining on the street floor and a large office space on the second floor. The adventure has proved a financial success.