Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1862-03-07

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are distributed not inequitably among /
hundred families for whom they are bread
home, and the opportunity Of a reputable
life. Out of one liberal mans expert
ments spring happy marriages and clear
and thoughtful children in the village
school with an open door to them to al
the highest rewards Of society, so thai
his successor, the man who shall do in tn,
next generation the work he did in this
shall be the son of his cook or of hi,
teamster.
This rare quality gets exempted toe
from the general condition: He Mat
gaias the world loses his own soul. Tc
most this very calamity happens. They
follow money making till all the grace,
and innocences and virtues of their souls
arc shriyellcd and consumed. This is not
the fate of all. There are wise stewards
of tn, Lords bounty, who grow rich in
excellence as in estate, whose souls ex
pand with outward prosperity, of whom
it is declared Unto him that hath Shall
be giren and he stall hare more abund-
antig.
Many have watched with interest and
but few with envy the gradual accrciion
Of those enterprises, which the late NJ
Pope originated and up to his untimcly
death prosecuted with unvarying success.
Thirty years ego, putting to practical use
4 hasty academic education, he entered
upon his fathers business at time. when
it was the highest mercantile ambition in
the town where he lived, to own quarter
Of a saw mill ana supply goods enough
to pay for stocking it with logs and manu-
featuring them. All the then inestimable
timber lands were held by noa-rcsilcnts
aud their price rated per acre in cents
rather than dollars, but the lumbcrmcn
were well enough satisfied, if they could
screen one half Of the timber cut upon
them from the eyes Of the proprictors
agent and thus escape a pltitul assessment
Of stumpagc. While yet in his boyhood
his fathers fortunes, up to that time huc-
tuating and marked with many reverscs,
felt the spell Of his tirclcss activity
While other operators asserted that the
timber was all cut of, Mr.. Pope began
quietly buying up the timber Lands, first
oy sections and then by townships. Wncn
other men offered their mills for sale Mr..
Pope stood ready to buy them. 1t early
occurred to his father and him self that to
make the business remuncratiYe the SclI-
ins us well as the Manufacture of lumber
must be ,ystematized. Accordingly they
applied to the principal sources Of de-
maul, studied out the wants OF builders
and contractors and made bargains to
supply upon orders the kinds and dimcn-
sions required for particular buildings,
/ thereby diycrting to themselves one profit
paid to brokers, aud selling their own
lumber at enhaneei prices. These special
contracts not only employed their own
mills but Were literally distributed anon"
other dealers who could pay them Il COM
mission and al the same time secure bet
ter prices for their commolitie. than the
general market afforded, and sometimes
sales in seasons when in the general mar
kct lumber failed to bring enough to pay
what it had cost. This system was con-
tiuucd until il branch Of the house, under
the direction o. Col. Wm. Pope, was cs-
tablished in Boston, through which the
sales Of the great quantities OF lumber
made at their various manufactures has
been since principally managed
Upon the removal Of his father to
Boston, Mr. Pope became the head OF
the firm and entered at once upon ca
recr Of enlargement and expansion.-
About fifteen Years ago he made his first
purchase Of mill property at Maehlas an |
commenced operating here. Since then
he has bought for himself and partners,
the mills and railroad at Whitneyyillc,
the Ilarwood mills and wharyes at thi,
place and three entire townships and parts
Of four other townships of timber lands
on this river. He joined Ncssrs. Talbot
and Harris in the purchase OF tha GHe
water power at Columbia and Of two
townships Of land lying uaoa Pleasant
river.
When the sudden growth Of California
created i demand for lumber at exorbitant
prices, Mr. Andrew J. Pope WAS on the
spot at the head OF Il lumber commission
house, and when the rates fell after "A
year OF two, in connection with Messrs,
Talbot, Keller and Foster, the Mes,rs.
Pope's establisel an extensive numbering
mauutactory on the water, Of Puget
Sound which has since cnjoye Il monoP-
oily of the lumber trade OF the Pacific
and found lucrative markets in South
America, Sandwich Islands, China and
Australia.
There may be instances in this part OF
the State Of more daring spcculations than
these, but none, We venture to say, in the
whole State, where boldness of Investment
has been followed W by the same systo-
matte administration, issuing III inevitable
success. In the midstof commercial cm-
barrassments, casual losses by fires and
shpwrcck, aud in spite Of the constant
requirement Of fresh capital for rapidly
expanding enterprises. the paper Of ).
W, Pope a Co., has stood as the symbol
Of so!vency and good faith,
Thoroughly trained in an apprentice
ship not unfamiliar with the narrow axc
and the pick-pole, Mr.. Pope so carefully
calculated the requirements Of success in
the employment in which he was engaged
that failure could only result from som,
extraordinary calamity. The event ha,