The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-25
THE RUSH OF TRAFFIC.
The Lumber Companies Using Their
Own Cars for transportation.

The Lumber Companies Using Their
Own Cars for transportation.
The strain upon the Central railroad and
the Savannah, Florida and Western rail
way to supply the lumbermsn with cars to
transport timber and lumber has resulted
in an agreement between some Of the roads
and some Of the large lumber comp snies,
whereby the lumber companies are 90 use
their own cars as they direct, ths railroads
paying them regular railroad mileage rates.
Sullwell. Millsn & Go. is; the Savannah
lumber company which has taken adVan-
tage Of the new schedule. The company
suffered last year in consequence Of being
unable to get the proper facilities for hand
ling lumber, and IL proposes this year 10
largely increase its business, and better car
facilities have become necessary. The com
pany has at present g large mill at Barlow.
1t operates the Augusta Lumber Company
and also the Waycross Lumber Company.
1t turns out nearly 5000 carloads Of lum-
Der annually, or over fifty carloads PSF
day. The capacity of each car Is about {, 900
feet. This is a considerable business for the
railroads, and with the present facilities the
roads, il is claimed, are unable TO dispatch
the business of ali ths lumber companies
along their lines Stilwell, Millsn & Co.
are erecting two large mills at Miilen, and
the demands upon the Central will be
largely added TO.
This increase in traffic has led the road TO
begin increasing its car capacity, and also
to grant the company the privilege OF put
ting on hundred extra fat cars. The rate
Of mileage which the lumber company is
allowed is q of a cent per mile, the same
rate as that paid foreign cars used
on its line. The cars Of Stillwell, Millen
q A.
Falls Car Company, and they are expected
to commence arriving this week or the
early part OF next week. The company
received telegram from the car company
yesterday, stating that the cars were now
being shipped.
The mills ct Millen being erected by
Stillwell, Millsn & Co. are to be on line
Of railroad, built also by the lumber COM
pany. The road will extend from Millen to
Sterling, distance Of fifty miles. 1t
will open up an entirely new lumber
district At Sterling the new road, called
the Milleu Southern railroad, will connect
with the Savannah aud Western and the
Savannah, Americus and Montgomery rail-
roads, and it is expected that the lumber traf-
fic over it will be very large Not only win a
lumber business be carried on, but the
Centrars cars, whenever required, will be
run out on the line, and a general railroad
business with passenger service Will be In
augurated The lumber company has
ordered passenger coaches for the new line,
and they are expected in a short time.
About thirty miles Of the road are already
being operated, both for lumber aud pas
senger traffic.
Stillwell, Millen & Co. have charge Of
the Waycross and Cordele railroad, and
they expect TO complete it the latter part of
this or the first Of next year. The road is
now being operated TO a point near
Douglass, in the heart Of large lumber dis
trict. and as the traffic increases the de-
mand for cars is increased. Passenger
coaches are on the way from the Ohio Falls
Company for this line, and passenger SER
vice will be put on at once. In the cotton
season, when the railroads are blocked with
cotton, the lumber men say that they
fare badly, and they consider that
in putting on their own cars
the ear scarcity is. in a great measure,
remedied. Only few of the lumber com
panies are in the movement, and it may be
that the effort made by the larger compa-
MES TO take care of themselves will place
the railroads in bstter position to look out
for those lumber dealers who are dependent
upon them. The move Ia altogether a new
one, and was never known in the lumber
section Of the country before.