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VOL. II. NO. 187
HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI, MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 5. 1908
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LUMBER INDUSTRY IS NOW RAPIDLY REVIVING
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Detailed Reports From Many of
the Mills Throughout the Hat
tiesburg Trade Territory.
• PLANTS STARTING IIP
ALL OVER THE DISTRICT
..Many of Them Have Enlarged and
Others Are Building Railroads to
Tap New Tracts of Timber—A Com
prehensive Summary of Conditions.
The lumber industry will be normal
again In less than four weeks.
This is not a matter of speculation,
but a matter of fact, ascertained by
direct information from the mills oi
the Hattiesburg district.
Out of a total of 233 mills to which
inquiries have been sent something
like seventy replies have thus far been
received. Out of this number only two
mills have gone out of business, four
teen will remain idle until November
1, while eleven are preparing to start
this week or next. The rest of them
are running.
At least seven miles of new railroad
Is now under construction and severa.1
plants have been greatly enlarged,
some bf them doubled in capacity
since last season.
In all of the replies received from
these inquiries not a discordant note
Is sounded, but the lumber men of the
district, with one voice say that busi
ness is improving and that the future
"looks good" to them.
The replies from the mills follow:
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Has Doubled Its Capacity.
Picayune, Miss.,
mill of the Pearl Land and Lumber
Company at this place has just
changed hands and resumed business
on October 5 with a new slate,
capacity of the mill has been doubled
by the addition of new machinery
and equipment and will cut at least
120,000 feet a day, giving steady em
ployment to 300 "men. J. C. Morse is
the new manager of the mills and
will devote his entire attention to the
business.
October 5.—The
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Carson Mill to Resume.
Carson, Miss., October 5.—J.
Stewart, president and general man
ager of the Geneva Lumber Company
of this place, announces that his com
pany is preparing to resume operation
In about three weeks. The capacity
of the plant is now 40,000 feet a day
and this is being doubled. The com
pany is also putting in two and one
half miles of additional railroad and
new boilers and engines, new dry
kilns, pumps, etc.
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Building Railroad—Needs Men.
Gandsi, Miss., October 5.—The mill
of the Mason Lumber Company at this
place did not stop during the financial
depression. It has a capacity of 75,
000 feet a day and employs 150 men.
Entire output is sold for 60 days. This
company is now engegad in the con
struction of three miles of railroad to
tract of timber and is need
tap a new
ing men.
Business Picking Up.
Gulfport, Miss., October 5.—Officials
of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
say that practically all of the mills
the road between Gulfport and
Jackson will be in operation before
the first of November. Many of them
have already started with full forces
of hands.
Bond is still idle, the plant being in
the hands of a receiver, hut an effort
will be made to reorganize the com
pany.
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The J. E. North mill at
Business at Richton.
October 5.—The
Beaver
Richton, Miss.,
Richton Lumber Company,
Dam Lumber Company, and Cantrell
and Craham mills are all running. The
former is operating on full time.
Preparing to Start.
D'Lo., Miss., October 5.—The Buck
waiter mill at this place Is in opera
tion. The D'Lo Lumber Company mill
is preparing to start.
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Booming at Collins.
Collins Miss., October 5.—The Wil
mlll,
Be hands
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liamsburg Lumber Company's
which recently passaj
of a New York sync!
The Hattiesburg News
Strikes the Key-Note
Gitano, Miss., Oct. 3, 1908.
The Hattiesburg News, Hattiesburg, Miss.
Gentlemen—We feel like The Hattiesburg News will strike the key
note when it begins to give the mill men the lumb
, The writer has often thought why some of the local papers did not
devote more space for this purpose, therefore we congratulate you for
making this move.
er news.
The Simpson County Lumber Company has a small mill at Gitano,
on the Laurel branch of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad.
Their specialty is railroad timbers up to 20x20x40 feet. They are
prepared to furnish timber in L. L. or Lobloley for creosoting.
Their present holdings will last them for two years.
At present they are buying quite a lot of logs delivered at the mill
from outside parties, for these they are paying from $6 to $8.
Yours truly,
SIMPSON COUNTY LUMBER CO.
Per W. J. LOYD.
on full time. The mills of W. C. Wood
Lumber Company and J. M. Russ
Lumber Company are also running,
giving employment all told to some
thing like 1,000 men.
booming here.
Business is
Good at Columbia.
Columbia, Miss., October 5.—The B. |
L. Anderson Mill Company, Haney-1
Wesson Company, Marion Lumber j
Company and Watts Lumber Company j
are in operation.
Mize Mill to Start.
Mize, Miss., October 5.—The mill of
W. D. Cook at this place will resume
operation on November 1 with a daily
output of 25,000 feet.
Popularville Mill to Resume.
Popularville,, Miss., October 5.—The
Popularville Lumber Company an
nounces that it will resume operation
in about three weeks with a capacity
of 50,000 feet a day" "it will give em
ployment to 100 hands and cater to
both the domestic and export trade.
Ship Island Mill Running.
Sanford, Miss., October 5.—The Ship
Island Lumber company's mill at this
place is running, the daily output av
eraging 50,000 feet. The present force
consists of 150 men.
Output Sold at Hathorn.
Hathorn, Miss., October 5.—A.
Ball is running his mill at this place
at a daily capacity of 30,000 feet giv
ing employment to 32 men. The out
put of the plant is sold for several
months ahead.
Eastman-Gardner Mill Running.
Laurel, Miss., October 5.—The mill
of the Eastman-Gardner Lumber Com
anyp, one of the largest in the belt
is running on full time with a force of
about 500 men. No information is
available a« to the output.
H.
Increased Capacity.
Bassfield, Miss., October 5.—Stead
and Wentworth, proprietors of
man
the big mill at this place, are optimis
tic over the lumber outlook. Their mill
is now running on full time with a
daily capacity of 100,050 feet and em
ployes 150 men. The output is larger
than at this time last year.
Mill is Rebuilding.
Kola, Miss., October 5.—The plant
of the Kola Lumber Company, burned
several months ago, is being rebuilt
and will resume on October 15 with
a force of 250 hands. It has a capacity
of 75,000 feet a day.
will be an improvement over the old
one.
The new mill
Output Already Sold.
Norfleld, Miss., October 5.—The But
terfield Lumber Company is running
full time with 450 men and the out
put of the mill is sold for ninety days
ahead.
lumber than ever before in its his
tory.
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This mill is cutting more
Sash, Door and Blind Factory.
Gulfport, Mips., October 5.—The
plant of the Gulfport Sash, Door and
Blind Factory did not shut down,
is now working a force of 25 to 35 men.
Mr. R. L. Skinner, the manager, says
that future prospects are good.
II
Will Start November 1.
Bay Springs, Miss., October 5.—L.
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Building Soaked in Oil and Ten
Persons Perished in Flames
Which Defied Department.
Hearst News Service.
New York, October 5.—An incendi
ary lire this morning destroyed a large
tenement of the Mulberry Bend sec
tion, and ten persons were suffocated,
all Italians., Two persons are dyi ng t il '
the hospital and six others received
serious injuries. Fire Chief Jennings
said the building was a fire trap and
there was no chance to save the vic
time. Ten children were thrown from
the upper story windows, being safely
caught in the arms of policemen and
firemen. The police have a good de
scription of the man seen rolling bar
rels of oil soaked waste into the hall
way.
BIG CONTRACT
FOR SEWERS
Jackson City Council Will Pro
vide For the Building of
Twenty Miles of Mains.
Daily News Special.
Jackson, Miss., October 5.—At its
meeting tomorrow afternoon the Jack
son city council will let contracts
for the laying of more than twenty
miles of new water mains, in addition
to the taking up of several miles of
small mains and the substitution of
larger pipe.
The pipe for doing this work was
purchased a month ago, and several
car loads of it has atready arrived.
The remainder will be shipped in am
ple time to be laid as the edit tractors
need it, and the work can begin at
once and can be pushed to a rapid
•finish.
The plans contemplate the putting
of water within reach of every house
located within the city limits, with a
fire hydrant near enough to any house
to afford fire protection. The cost will
be more than $100,000, a major portion
of the 196,000 of municipal improve
ment bonds having been set aside for
Jjiat purpose.
The next largest item in the appro
priation from the bond funds is that
for the extension of the city sewerage
system, and this work will be taken
up as soon as the waterworks exten
sion is finished, if not before. , In fact
the two jobs ma> be handled simul
taneously in the territory where both
are necessary.
Four photos of the children for 25
cents at Post Card Depot.
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BET BUSY
Night Riding is Nipped in
Bud By Action of the
Local Unions.
the
WAREHOUSE MANAGERS
REEUSED TO RESOLUTE
No Importance Is Attached to Occ* 1 -
sional Threats Posted on Cotton
Gins—No Organiation Is Believed
to Exist Among the Outlaws.
Jackson, Miss., October 5.—Follow
ing the refusal by a large majority
vote of the Farmers' Union Ware
few
house managers, in session here
days ago, to adopt a resolution con- |
demnlng the practices of night riders,
almost every county "organiation and
local branch in the;stele lias adopted
such a resolution, alany of these
have been furnished the local papers
and as a whole the sentiment of the
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union on the subject has been given
vide publicity.
a very
In view of the fact that no new
threats have been made within the
past few days, no g^s hosted, and no
carry out of the threats previously
conveyed by this method, il has come
to be regarded as a matter of no great
consequence, and as having been in
stituted as a joke or was nipped in
the bud early by a general revulsion
of feeling throughout the country.
The state officials of the union,
whose offices are located here, attach
no importance to the threats made
in different parts of the state, and es
pecially do they repudiate the idea
that there is any organiation, or that
it has any connection whatever with
the Farmers' Union, as has been sug
gested in some quarters.
Twenty Bales of Cotton Destroy
ed and Loss is F.stimated
at About $3,500.
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Prentiss, Miss., October 5.—Dr. J. |
J. Parker's gin, two miles north of j
town, caught fire Friday about 1 j
o'clock and burned down in a few
minutes, destroying the entire plant
and about twenty bales of cotton. A
large crowd congregated, but with the
high wind to contend with they could
not accomplish anything in the way
of fighting the fire. The loss is esti
mated at $3,500, with no insurance.
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PROGNOSTICATOR. ❖
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Washington, October 5.—For Missis
sippi: Fair tonight and Tuesday.
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ARE STILL AT LARGE
Daily News Special.
Jackson, Miss., October 5.—Nothing
has so far been heard from the search
for Will Sorsby, the fugitive murderer
of Postoffice Inspector Chas. Fitzger
ald, who escaped last Tuesday night
shortly after the tragedy. The United
States detectives are working very
quietly, and if they have made any
reports of their progress they have
been kept very close by the authori
ties.
All sorts of rumors and speculations
are still going the rounds, but each,
when traced to its source, proved to
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Biadeslee and Lloyd Will Deliv
er Addresses at Vicksburg
On October 14.
Vicksburg, Miss., October 5.—Com
missioner H. E. Blakeslee, of the state
department of agriculture and com
merce, has accepted the invitation of
tlte Vicksburg Board of Trade and
Cotton Exchange to attend and deliv
er an address before the boll weevil
meeting to be held there on Wednes
day October 14.
Prof. E. R. Lloyd, of the Starkville
A. & M. College, has also been invited,
and will very likely attend. Efforts
will be made to have government ex
perts, men employed by Uncle Sam to
tell how to fight the weevil, and how
to grow a cotton crop in spite of hint,
and it is likely there will be an ad
dress by at least one of these experts.
The two Vicksburg organizations
have pledged themselves to get out a
good attendance, and all indications
point to a meeeting similar to the one
held in Natchez a short while ago, the
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Wr. William C. Baldwin, of Pittsburg, who has entered the New York
field of Life Insurance as president of the Washington Life Insurance Com
pany.
be founded upon nothing at all.
Nothing has yet been heard from
Austin E. Ferguson, who killed Ethel
Maxwell, an inmate of a house in the
redlight section of this city early Sat
urday morning, was captured in a su
burb of Brookhaven Saturday after
noon, and an hour later escaped from
the officers who had him in charge
pringing him to this city, leaving them
on the train somewhere between Gall
man and Crystal Springs. If any spe
cial effort has been made to effect his
recapture they have not been reported
here.
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results of which
ill be of the greatest
! benefit to the cotton interests in the
state.
\ The appearance of the boll weevil i
j in various parts of the state, the as
j surance that the insect will do much
! harm by next year, and the certainty
: that by that time the state will be
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| five bug, so far as the cotton growing
sections are concerned, have aroused
a great deal of interest in the subject,
and cotton planters from all the ad
jacent territory will doubtless be in
Vicksburg for the purpose of getting
all the enlightment possible on this
important subject.
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FIRE RAGES
ON FRISCO'S
WATER FRONT
San Francisco, October 5.—A fire
which started in the bunkers of the
Pacific Coal Company last night is rag
ing on the water front today. Sev
eral warehouses have been destroyed
and the loss already amounts to half
a million.
The entire fire fighting
force of the city is at work.
President F. L. Peck Wires the
Daily News Making This
Positive Announcement.
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PLANT WILL BE BUILT
WITHIN LIVE MONTHS
Magnificent Steel Building to Take
the Place of the One Burned Early
Last Spring—Contractor Is Now En
Route to Hattiesburg.
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❖ TELEGRAM FROM
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PRESIDENT PECK. ❖
v Scranton, Pa , Oct. 5, 1908. ❖
❖ Hattiesburg News,
❖ Hattiesburg. Miss.
❖ Contract was let Saturday for •>
♦> the erection of a fire-proof saw ❖
❖ mill plant for the J. J. Newman
❖ Lumber Company at Hatties- ❖
❖ burg to Filer & Sowell, of Mil- •>
❖ waukee. Wisconsin. •>
❖ Work on the new plant is to be- ❖
❖ gin at once and the contract is •>
to be completed within
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The J. J. Newman mill, destroyed by
fire early last spring, is to be rebuilt
in Hattiesburg. Work on the rebuild
ing of the mill is to begin at once and
the big plant is to he ready for opera
tion by the first of next March.
These statements are all based on a
telegram received from President F.
I,. Peck this morning, and which is
herewith reprodueed in full.
Scarcely less important is the fact
[ that the new mill is to he of steel con
struction. absolutely fire-proof through
out, thus assuring its permanency as
! a local industry.
Nothing is said in Mr. Peck's tele
gram of the size and capacity of the
new mill, but the News learns on alto
gether reliable authority that the new
plant will be larger than the old one.
it will be more modern. Its capacity
will be materially increased and the
number of men employed in the mill
and in the immediate vicinity of Hat
tiesburg will not be less than 1,000.
A representative of the contracting
firm of Filer & Sowell is now en route
to Hattiesburg with the plans for the
building and the work
away the fragments of the old mill
preparatory to the erection of the
new one will begin immediately on his
arrival, doubtless before the end of
the present week.
The contractors have only five
months within which to complete the
install the neces
length of
time more titan $75,000 will be dis
bursed in Hattiesburg for tabor, mate
rials and supplies.
While it will be approximately five
months before the new plant is in
operation, Hattiesbui'g will feel its ef
fects from the moment that active
construction is begun on the plant.
of clearing
great building and t
sar.v machinery. In this
SHOT HIS WIFE
IN JEALOUS RAGE
Chicago, October 5.—George H. Gil
son this morning shot and probably
fatally wounded his wife and attempt
ed to kill Miss Jennie.Barnes, who was
with Mrs. Gilson, then he turned the
pistol on himself and committed sui
cide.
Gilson and wife were recently separ
ated and the act is attributed to jeal
ousy.
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