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Show LITTLE SPRUCE GUM USED ! As a grim-chewing nation, America has gone soft, boasts the only sur- vivor of what once was a leading Industry In-dustry In Maine, the making of spruce gum. The Indians taught settlers the value of the gum from the spruce tree. But moderns turned many years ago to flavored gums that cliew with less exertion. The spruce gum crop In Maine used to-total to-total 150 tons yearly. Tliis was-worth was-worth $300,000. Now, however, the harvest amounts to four to six tons. |