The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-12-11
TOO MUCH LUMBER.
The Mill Men Will Close Down to Di
minish the Stock on Hand.

The mill men of Texas, Arkansas,
} Louisiana, aud Missouri will close
( down their mills for four days in
! each week until their stock of lum-
4 Der on hands diminished consider
ably.
A TEXARKANIAN reporter found
/ A. j. Neimeyer, of st. Louis, the
President of the Arkansas, Missou-
: ri and Louisiana Lumber Company,
I at the Huckins House yesterday,
! where some forty delegates were
: assembled from these states, and
! asked him for synopsis of the days
J work, He said: 81 Gould tell you
all and would take pleasure in do
ing so, but am pressed for time.
( Here he called Secretary Plummer
of st. Louis, and asked him to give
( the reporter all the business of the
meeting transacted, that would be
of any interest to the outside world.
Mr.. Plummer proved to be COM
municatlve, and said:
"We are a company composed of
all the mills of any consequence in
Arkansas, Missouri and Louisiana;
we are organized under a charter
procured from Illinois, and our
place of business or headquarters
is Texarkana. We have been run
ming the milss in these three States
{ on full time, heretofore, and have
stacked up millions of feet of lum-
I ber, and now and we have no de-
mand for the out put. We were
called together to debate the best
way out of this difficulty, sandit has
been resolved to shut the mills down
four days in each week until the
stock on hand has been considera-
bly, diminished.
! The Secretary also said that the
! present prices will prevail, and that
/ the mills in the company would not
{ lower the price on lumber in the
least.
= Other matters we're discussed,
such as dimensions and classifca-
tions, and the general outlook of
trade.
Mr.. Plummer, the secretary, also
informed us that the Texas mill
men were here in convention, and
that joint session between the
delegates of the four states was
held, and the Texas mill men also
joined the agreement that they
would close their mills for the spec
flied time.
Mississippi, which is a lumber pro-
ducing state, Mr.. Plummer, said,
was in hearty accord with the
movement of closing down the mills
| for stipulated period, and selling
off the lumber now on the yards.
The delegates here were composed
of an intelligent, well-dressed set of
men, and while their action will
cause a hardship on the men work
ing for their daily bread, they are
looking out for their own interest
We can only hope that business will
revive and the mills will all be open
and the men put on full time very
soon again. We can not endure a
lumber trust any more than any
other trust.
We learn since the above was put
in type that the resolution closing
down the mills for four days in the
week must be signed by representa-
tives of 80 per cent. of the produc-
I ing capacity of the company before
the resolution takes effect. We
trust that the conditions of the
= times will change in such a manner
as to cause this resolution to be in
: operative, not that we want to Grip
{ pie the mill men but that we hate
y to see labor thrown out OF employ
o ment just at this time of the year,
:,
c Huddleston Bros. have just res
ceived fine line of smoked meats.