The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-02-15
THE PROVIDENCE MILL.

Rapids, Mich. for complete outfit
for the manufacture of shingles, boxes
and barrel heads. Their single mill,
which is to be an adjunct to their fine
| lumber mill, is. we understand. OF the
latest improved patent, with capaci-
/! ty of $4,000 shingles day and all the
necessary attachments for the manu-
facture of fancy and ornamental shing-
les. The machinery is to be shipped at
once. and is expected to be in oper-
alton within the next two months.
The Providence Lumber Company
was organized and chartered under the
laws of Louisiana, with a capital stock
of $50, coo. about one year ago. They
bought out the Hamley & Ransdell
mill, their large tracts of timber and
general outfit. They organized at
once by electing Hon. j. E. Ransdell
as President, and Hon. E. j. IIaniley
as Secretary and Treasurer and geHer-
al manager. The gentlemen who COM
pose the Company are we'll known in
this community as enterprising, pub
lic-spirited aud fine business men. who
in every respect have the confidence OF
our people. Hon. j. K. Rausdell.
President of the Company, is leading
and successful attorney at this bar,
and has been the prosecuting attorney
of this district for the past twelve
wears. Hon. E. J. Hamley has been
lfor the past eight years honored by our
people with the mayorship of the town,
besides occupying position OF trust
in the parish officially, that of treas
urer OF the parish and school board.
With such fine business men at their
head, the Providence Lumber Company
was bound to succeed. Immediately
after their organization, they sent Mr..
, E. j. Hamley. the manager OF the
Company. to Northern cities to select
and buy the best outfit that money
could get, and he came back with {
model mill, which in three months
4 time was running and cutting timber
The Providence mill is of capacity o
5000 feet of lumber a day. but th'
: directors know that money is not 81
much in the quantity of timber sawed
or run through the mill as in the man
ner in which the lumber is sawed, ant
they insist on every board being as per
feet as it can be gotten. Their mott'
is equality, not quantity" The hea'
blocks and set works of their mill ar
of the latest improved pattern, tn
edcer and trimmer are fine, and all
driven by a mogul engine, run a
smoothly as clock work. Their bal
tery of boilers consumes all the saw
dust, which in every mill is always
great nuisance. During the little tim
!, the Providence Lumber Company IA
e, their mill last year, they cut out mi
s. lion and half feet of the finest lumbe
I. we ever saw, which was either use
here in this market, or shipped Mort
n by barges. Lumber dealers are AM
lous to get the Providence mill lumbe
both on account of its superior qualit
and fine manufacturing, also becau:
. of the cheap freight rates they can g
re from this point by lighters to IL
as Northern markets.
The Providence Lumber Compan
own large tracts of cypress, red gun
red oak, white oak. ash and sycamor
10 They make speciality of cypress lur
NC Der. however, claiming to have I'll
W finest cypress timber in the Sout
OF Their trees are enormous. some scalir
as much as $500 feet of lumber wi
little. if any, of the pecky or VIII
shaken sort. The many lumberm'
from all parts of the country who ha
ie months and saw the Providence Luz
nc Der Company cypress, pronounce
the finest in the South.
The Providence Lumber Compal
no gives employment to great numb
of hands; in fact. they have near the
:. saw mill little village, which, by t
by, boasts of one of the best hotels tn
we ever saw, and every one at t
:" Providence mill is as busy as be
ne The mill hands are paid regularly, t
on barge leaders are paid as soon as tn
IT. get through, and our town has gre'
he ly profited by the increase mon
en- in circulation from the mill han'
lrs barge leaders, machinery drumme
lumber buyers and inspectors, broug
here by the Providence mill.