Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-15
LUMBERMEN'S MEETING
In Mobile to Look Over the Timber and Lumber Interest for the Purpose of
 Investment

The following wealthy and prominent 1umbermen have been spending several days in Alabama looking over the tim Der and numbering interests at several points, with, it is said a view to ascer- tainng the present status and future outlook as to investments in timber lands, etc.
 The personnel of the party is as fol- lows
 r. Weyerhauser, president of the Mis- sissppi River Logging company, of Chip pewa Falls, Wis, and president of the German National bank of St. Paul, Mnn.; w. H. Laird, president of the Laird Norton Lumber company, of Win ona, Min; O. H. Ingram, president of the Empire Lumber company, of Eau Claire, Wis; J. T. Barker, vice-president of the Northwestern Lumber company, of Eau Claire, Wis; J. B. White, general manager of the Missouri Lumber and Mining company, of Grandin, Mo-; Ii. Il, Hayden, counsellor-at-law, of Eau Claire, Wis; w. J. Young, vice-president of w; J. Young & Co.,, of Clinton, 1a.; Edward P Skeene land commissioner of 1llinios Central railroad, of Chicago, Ill.,; Chas A. Weyerhaeuser, general manager Pine Tree Lumber company, of Stanley, WIS; Charles H. Ingram, general manager or Rice Lake Lumber company, of Rlce Lake. Wis; w. Irvine, general manager Chippewa Lumber and Broom company, of Chippewa FalRss Wis; Joseph Hilton, president Hilton & Dodge Lumber com pany, of Darien, Ga., and New fork; John J. McDonough, director southern Pine company, of savannah, Ga, ana New York; Hugh Ceilings, of London, England. o.
 Mr F. Weyerhauser came from Ger many to Illinois with less than $50, but As now reputed to be worth $o,0Oo,ooo Eo SS, ,00O 000 while w. J. Young and sev- n tla q iY1nt Tn Foo, ,OOO to $3O0O,000 each, while scarcely kny of them run under $5000O0, due, 1t IS Eaid to taking advantage of opportunl- aies to purchase large tracts of standing kimber at reasonable prices, and avail Themselves of the advance in value of same, together with the profits accruing from carefully manufacturing trees into Lumber and judiciously marketing same, and which has also made hundreds or Alabama and Mississippi and other humbermen in the south Dig r1ch,' and kxcelIent opportunities also now exist for others to do likewise, by investment in standing timber at present low prices. TO MT. J. B. White, of the party, be- longs the unique distinction of being the first lumberman to almost entirely oper- ate his saw and blaming mill plant With female help.
 MT. White is a native of Pennsylvania, where he became a successful lumber man, but seeing the much better oppor- tunities the south presented, joined the banking firm of Grantlin Brothers, T1d- ionte, Pa, the syndicate buying some 200 OOO acres and putting in a plant of about ,OoO feet daily capicity, wherein are employed the women operatives be- fore referred to. The party left Mobile yesterday to visit several numbering nlants upon the Louisville and Nash yille, as also upon the New Orleans and Northeastern division of the Queen and Crescent system. and will visit several points in Louisiana before returning north, and possibly returning via Birm- inpham