This scene shows gum being collected from a Southern Yellow Pine forest. In the early years gum, pitch, and pine tar were used by the Navy for caulking the seams of wooden vessels and to preserve the ship's rope and rigging. The term "Naval Stores" has evolved from that usage. Upon processing oleoresin, the product is converted into turpentine and resin which have many industrial uses.

This product from Southern Yellow Pine, America's renewable natural resource, is one of the country's oldest industries, beginning in Nova Scotia in 1606 and in Virginia about 1608. In about 1665 North Carolina was the leading state in gum production. Since 1925 Georgia has led the nation producing up to 75% of the nation's supply and about one-half the world's supply.