The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-02

/ of which he made large contracts lot w
/ delivery Of lumber at prices much moI'
encouraging than he had anticipated 90
/ ing able TO realize. The Company manu-
! features large quantities OF furnlture -
cutting up for this purpose the s'ocs
which accumulates on their yards, anu
| which is understandable in its grade OF
dimensions as lumber. Union City, Tehh.'
! has also q ine lumber and furniture bus's
ness--in fact lives aud thrives on THESE
! industries.
| am glad to have this opportunity oil
brin ging TO the notice of practical lums
! bermen the Inducements which the I'M
developed resources of this finely timber
ed country offer to men of capital and en-.
ergy to work them up. Money that wiz
build tramways for the transportation 10
mill and shippin point at half the pres,
emit cost, fby wagon and team OF logs anu
lumber; that will give our present one
| line railroads promise of enough business
to induce them to branch out into our
now inaccessible but fertile lumber re
gions; that will make log runs OF streams
now clogged with drift, but on either side
of which the gold grows in monnrchs Of
the forest, is what is needed to make us
rivals of the great piney woods mil
lers.
There are large quantities of white oak
shipped from this point, millions of pipe
and barrel slaves being made, hauled and
freigbted by barge to New Orleans for
shipms Mt to Europe yearly. But an in
dustry using a great deal of this wood
and much more worthy of mention, is the
manufacture of wagons. Our little town
can boast of possessing the largest wagon
factory in Kentucky. This is owned and
run by Messrs. hertweck, Baltzer & Co..
| 4 L. a.. ha
year 1858. Capt. Ter, referred 10 above,
is = member of the frm- The product Of
their work is, l believe, something ever
| two thousand wagons } ear, and the we II
merited popularity OF their goods has CIV
en- their yield for somei years steady
annual increase. An enterprise OF the
same nature was started something about
| a year ago in our neighboring town, Un-
ion City, Tenn, but from lack OF
capital died, as the old rhyme goes,
almost ''befors il was born" l under
stand that your snterprising fellow citi-
zens, Cherry, o Conner s. Co, have pur-
chased the building and machinery and
intend to run the shop to its full capasity.
If this be true, it requires no seer to
propbesy that, Phoenix like, the Union
City Wagon Company will rise from it's
past unfortunate and brief career, and be
a credit TO that already live little city.
must not forget TO mention that a
manufacturing business in the lumber
line which, although it has been carried
on for many years in your city and in
a few other points South Of Mason and
| DiIon's line, is engaged in TO fifty times
the extent in the Northern and Eastern
States has just been started here. lrefer
to the manufacture of wood pumps-forcs
suction, and chain. Messrs. Rich Lowe
of IL kau with :
capacity for working up from 20. 900 "a
IS 900 feet of lumber per week, which
when made into pumps amounts to coz.
siderable product for our town in thi:
line alone. Large quantities of choice
poplar lumber have been cut and ship ped
from this section for the use of Northern
and Western manufacturers of these
pumps; aud the latter-when msnufsctur
ed-shipped back here at big figures
while the cost of machinery to make
them is, relatively TO the profit il
the business, small. The Introduction Of
such industries as these is q step in the
right direction, and ranks with the efforts
which Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi
are making to compete with the Eastern
States in the manufacture OF the fabrics
made from the great staple Of the sc auC
the other Southern Satisfaction.
Mr.. l.. p. Shoffnsr, OF Union City, ha'
also been engaged for some years in th'
manufacture OF these pumps, aud will
the usual success which his indemiiabl'
energy and push carry with them in al
departments Of his large business.
Now, few words TO dollars an,
cents in the lumber business here, and
will no longer trespass on your space
Merchantable poplar timber. into saw-lo,
lenths and delivered on mill yards, car
J r.. oh doIT A.
per thousa nd feet, measured by Scribner
rule. Oak and ash are worth about thu
same. Gum, strictly clear red, nsve
brings over five dollars per thousand
Walnut, which 10 so scarce with us that
have not before mentioned il. is sold ii
tho log a. from $3.50 to S25. 90 per ihous
and, according TO the size of the timbe
! and it's quality. All these prices arr
those paid at mills right at points o
transportation, the figures decreasing il
exuct proportion to the cost OF hauling
the lumber TO these points when the mill
are situated in the country. Labor il
plentiful and cheap. The cost of runni nj
q mill of ten to fifteen thousand feet DAILY
! capacity, outside Of the interest on CAPT
tai invested, but including labor, repairs
betting, oil, ETC., is less than twenty 6v,
dollars per day. From these figures
practical Iumbermen can calculate ths
profit which is in the manufacture o
lumber here the value of the product anc
cost Of putting it on the market being
known.
The style Of mills in most general use
are the Stearns, Greenwsld, Lane & Bod
ley, and Owens, Lane i Dyer.
In conclusion, l wish your paper sue
cess. The Northeastern Lumbermdn, which
has some circulation in this country, and
is a good paper, is so entirely devoted e
the interest of the great pine cutting re
pions that there il little in it interestin 9
to the mill men South, and your newsJ
and well edited sheet Ito use cant ex.
preession) fills long felt want.
Yours truly, HENRY LITTLE.
Hickman, KY, May II, 1882.