The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-29
The BARREL TRUST.
The Georgia CoOperage Company to
Fight the Big Syndicate.

The Georgia Cooperage Company to
Fight the Big Syndicate.
The naval stores factors are not to be left
at the mercy of the big syndicate recently
formed to control the turpentine barrel
trade of the South The syndicate has been
neatly checkmated by the Georgia Cooper
age Company, represented by Raymond
Judge, who is himself one of the leading
buyers of spirits of turpentine In the Savan-
nah market, and is interested in having the
highest standard of barrels in use.
Mr. Judge is building extensive shops at
the Savannah, Florida and Western wharves
for the manufacture of barrels. He has also
established branch factories at Lumber
City and Dupont, and he informed a MORN
ING NEWS reporter yesterday that other
branch factories will be located elsewhere
If necessary to accommodates the trade.
The new enterprise which Mr.. Judge rep
resonts was necessitated by the combination
which was made at Charleston a week or
two ago, and which had for its principal
object the entire control of the turpentine
barrel trade of Savannah i'll particular and
the South in general II secured a charter in
South Carolina under the name of the Palmer
Manufacturing Company, of Charleston,
and was alluded to by the Charles
ton papers, in burst of self-gratulation, as
absorbed the Standard Manufacturing
Company, Of Charleston, and its branch
factory at Savannah as well as the Chicka-
saw Cooperage Company, of Memphis, the
Chess and Wyman Company, of Louisville,
the barrel factory at Hawkinsville, and
minor factories scattered throughout the tur-
pentine regions of the South Atlantic sea-
board.
That the syndicate was a surprise to Sa-
or
saying, and they began to look about to see
if they could find a competitor. They
found one in Mr. Judge, who is virtually
the only competitor of the big triple-bar-
relied trust and they rallied at once to his
support so that the opposition to the syndi-
cate is not inchoate, but in active opera
ton. Coopers are already employed here
and at the branch factories at Lumber City
and Dupont and the youthful enterprise has
already secured one-fourth Of the turpen-
tine barrel trade of Georgia, and has the
promise Of fully one-half of the trade before
the big syndicate got fairly uncoiled. The
consolidation of the five Cooperage and bar
rel companies, which have heretofore sup
piled the Southern TRACE, cannot therefore
control the market.
1t is understood when those connected
with the barrel trust" got wind of Mr.
Judges enterprise, they lost no time in see
ing him with view to get the field clear.
He asked for an hour to consider the matter
and in that hour the naval stores factors
convinced him that he ought not to abandon
the project, and they gave advance orders,
it is said, for about 1000
turpentine barrels. If the phrase
may be borrowed it may be said of the
Georgia Cooperage Company that it is "es-
sentially a Savannah enterprise" and
very healthy one too, for its factories are
M only in ortiUa nparatinn lint hai,cr on
larged 1t has closed its contracts for coop
erage which it draws from Tennessee, and
it promises to control the turpentine barrel
trade of Georgia.