The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-30
WILL LOCATE AT SABINE
CUMMINGS & co. OF HOUSTON
HAVE SELECTED A SITE
For Zig Lumber Yards and a Sawnil to
Handle Their Growing Ex-
port Business.

Beaumont, Texas May 29.-Mr. C. IT,
Cummings Of {, r. Cummings Il Co., the
big Houston manufacturers and exporters
of hardwood lumber aud logs has selected
Sabine Pass as II, site tor tder big lumber
yards and sawmill, which they have be u
eu1eavorng to locate somewhere on the
gulf coast for the past two years. Tne
announcement comes rather MS n surpri
at this time, as il was generally under
stood that Mr. Cummings had decd 10
build his mill and establish the exp ring
yards AT Port Arthur. Mr. Luther KouHtz'
however is authority for the staten mt
that the deal was closed up yesterday at
Sabine, between Mr.. Cummings and Mcssrs.
Luther and Herman Kounize. The Local
ton of the site is not given, Int II Is en-
thely satisfactory to MIR Cummings needs,
aud includes ample acreage tor lunb I
yards. switches sheds and the mill, le-
sides trafhc agreement for wharf prlvi'
leges for handling the lumber from tue
yards to the shirs. as well as from CARS
e. H. Cummings \ Co. are the Ia &c t
exporters of hardwood lumber in the
South, and ship more lumber annually out
of Texas to foreign markets than all other
rxnortcrs combined. The timber exported
includes all kinds OF hardwood ,umpet
winch grows in Texas, walnut from inc
Indian Territory and mahogany from M"N.
leo aud Central America, as wei as Slnall
quantities OF The more rare woods VIM =
are picked up in the Central American
countries OF late this company has de.
voted much of their time to exporting pine
lumber and 'logs and this branch OF lneir
business has grown to large proportions.
The company also controls the lalg eSt
hardwood aud pine lumber yaris In Ger
many and has practical control OF thht
trade. For these reasons anu 9tn i we
fact that Sabine has been selected 10y inese
people Is one of the most impofian Sc
iaktn by Sabine looking TO the develop
ment of the ports facilities, and the eXir-
! cising of the possibilities and nsefun So
M cummings has also through his Ger
1 man connections, been experimenting Win
! the sale OF Beanmon, lnei OH n ~,
1 factory Not long ago Mr.. Cummings ie-
\ relyed an inquiry for prices on cargo Of
/ oil TO be shipped TO GermahN, am " n
! O,orded the prices ana is now ava tug a
! rvnor; on the prospect Of shipping ne
! duid Through his business cotnec irns u
/ Germany Nj. Cummings is enabled to pms
! I'D use of fuel 81! there and II he IN S
/ thni there is a prospect OF the trade be-
! coming permanent he VIII add oil to MS
| iist of eSpottlng products.
| heretofore that is to say. for many
wears past. Mr.. Cummings has been *
| portlng nearly all mis- hardwooh luin,h
! throrch Galveston by way OF Bullal" hayot
| cTcn Houston. The method and nannee II
shipment has always been very expensive
End il. was this fact that led MIR. Cum
niirrs TO seek the new ports of Sabine anf
| prrf Arthur for place where he cenit
locate both the mill and the Yards
Mr. Luther KOuntze, after making th'
stgt.nnent relative 10 the CUMMINGS com
nsny' continued speaking Of Sabine, anC
soid there had been a wonderful impr-Ne
mont in Industrial conditions there since NJ
isit a wear ago and Snbine's future look
,r,, bright. Indeed. He and his brothsl
Iii nrolahly remain here several Jay
before visiting other places N Texas
tbia,r,ont has not been decided upon ye
ar', n,ilI be dttermlned largely by cundi
lions aud business matters.