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Identifier: electricrailway581921newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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eliquid to run outthrough a small pipeat the bottom of theworm into a large barrel placed alongside the track.The water, being heavier, goes to the bottom andthe spirits rise to the top and flow through a smallpipe about 3 in. below the top of the barrel andinto a white oak barrel that has been glued on theinside to insure a tight seam and prevent leakage.During the process of distillation a little water is addednow and then, in all about three barrels, to prevent thespirits and gum from burning. When the distillation has gone on for a period ofabout two hours the stiller sounds his still and can tellby the sound whether he has all the spirits out of thegum or not. If so, the top connections to the worm areremoved and the residue is run out through a tail gateat the bottom of the still and into a large strainer linedwith cotton batting to catch all chips, needles or any Pine Forest. The Two Trees in the ForegroundHave Been Boxed and Chipped 1060 Electric Railway Journal Vol 58, No. 25
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No. 1—Workmen hocking or chipping a No. 4—A typical turpentine still. No. 8—Bull pen reaching from shore into tree. No. 5—Typical Southern skidding screws, the river. No. 2—Tree equipped with clay pots. No. 6—Piling is taken from the river and No. 9—Derricks hoisting saw logs in the No. 3—Workman engaged in collecting loaded at dock onto cars. woods, .gum. No. 7—Train loaded with saw logs. No. 10—Unloading trestle at rivers side. December 17, 1921 Electric Railway Journal 1061 dirt that may have accumulated during the chipping erfthe tree or transportation of the gum to the still.Through the strainer it flows into a large vat and, whilestill hot, is barreled. A charge of thirty-five barrels of gum will makeabout seven barrels of spirits and twenty barrels ofrosin. A cooperage is run in connection with the stilland the barrels that are used for the rosin are manu-factured there of waste pine strips. After the spiritsand rosin are barreled they are shipped either by

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