The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1880-04-09
From Gainesville.
GAINESVILLE, March 25, isst

"verdaney' may crop out here
and there Twill try to pay in "these
few lines" as well AS | know how a
deserved testimonial to "A firm iden-
tilted with our county aud people.
1t is strange to me that some one
has not made it a subject OF letter
to the DEMocRAT.STAR before now.
1 allude to the vell-known firm OF
Poitevent & Favre of Pennington,
Miss. 1t is useless to look back
only few years at the commence
ment of their enterprise in that
place.
The town Of Pennington con.
tams abont one housand inhabi.
tants. They have the finest school
in the county, might say as good
as there il in South Mississippi,
and several churches. The people
all seem we'll to do-neat houses
and signs of thrift everywhere
With the universal esteem in which
John and Jo are held by all who
know them, ! believe no one will
disagree with me when | say til,
prosperity Of nearly the Nhole towr
seems TO depend on thrm in sons
way or the other. Their mill il
built on a brick. foundation, and i,
100 fee; long, and 81 feet wide
The frame work is fine piece o
mechanical skill, so that in th,
working, nor in any of the strains
to which saw mill is subject, cal
any jar be felt. On the groun,
floor is a complication of machine
ry difficult to describe, ponderou
engines silently performing thei
gigantic work. On each side o
the mill is an engine which drive
their respective circular SAWS ol
the upper floor. In the center j
another engine whose duty it i
to keep in motion the finest gan;
saw in the South. | wish | coul,
describe this part of the mill SO a
to be understood. The machiner,
of the gang is set on a foundation
of solid masnory 20 feet square an,
and II feet deep. The frame worl
OF the gang is of iron; no WOO,
work anywhere. The saw gat,
in an oscillating frame which is de
signed so that when tho saws hay,
made their stroke downward, b,
being swung or thrown out at th,
bottom they are relieved from AN
contact with the log on the upwar,
motion. Upon this second floor
which is laid of the heaviest tongu,
and groved cypress flooring, ",
Ind beside the gang saws, the Nv,
circular saws and edger beside th,
cutting oft aud slab saws. Auto
matte rollers carry the lumber on
at one end OF the mill where it /
10 ded on a car. These rollers ais,
carry the slabs to a saw wher,
they are cut into short pieces an,
fall Into a trough with an endles
chain, and By il carried about 30'
feet distant, aud there fall into ri
everlasting fire. A battery of si
boilers supply steam. They are Sc
oft under another building. Tai
smoke stacks that seem to reac
nearly to the clouds carry of th
smoke, and by their inmens
height insure safety from sparks
Saw.tust IL the only fuel used /: th
furnace being supplied by chai
carrier, wlrich saves the labor 0
three or more men. From the al
per story can be seen lake Ponl
chartrain--distant aa the crow file
about twenty miles. A slat
root covers this big coucern, an,
each gable is ornamelited wit
gothic windows OF size III propOl
ton to the building. ~
Should il be necessary to ru
the mill at night they can light
up With gas. One of the firm toll
ue the mill had capacity tor sawin
one hundred thousand feet of lun
Der, or nearly three hundred logs
day, and tue best of ii all is the
can find a market ready for all 0
1t, 1t they can get the logs to max
it. A telegraph Office at their stor
puts them in ready correspondence
with all parts Of the world.
Alter vs. get tired OF walkinI
and. admiling the mill we go owe
to the store where we find 'Opl
and have chat with him abou
who will be the next president All,
other interesting matters, aud
we dou't mind he will sell us some
thi z out OF their mammoth stor
before we eau get away.
For tear we may take up to
much time with him aud you W
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