Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-04-07
South Paris as a Lumber Town.
SOMETHING AS TO THE AMOUNT MANU-
FACTURED HERE.

South Paris is not in the heart of tn,
woods, neither is it on a stream which
floats lumber down from the woods, an(
no one ever thinks of it as being par
ticularly lumber town, as indeed it il
not. Nevertheless, the amount of lum
Der which finds direct market here
and the amount which is manufactured
here into highly finished product fol
shipment all over the world, run up to a
considerable total. The shedding season
of just about three months during the
past winter, when the roads were passa
BILE for heavy loaded teams except for an
occasional day or two, was well employ
ed, and the quantity of lumber used here
in various ways is perhaps larger than
ever before.
| South Paris principal industry, and
that which puts out its lumber in the
most highly finished product, in some
hundreds of different forms of goods, is
the Paris Manufacturing Co. The COM
pany has bought large quantities of tim
Der land and stumpage in Albany and
Greenwood, and from its three mills in
the woods there has been hauled out this
winter 1928 900 feet of lumber. In
addition to this numerous lots of lumber,
in the log and sawed, have been bought,
so that the company's total amount for
the season is not far from $500, 900 feet.
This does not show the amount Of lum-
Der consumed here, as the lumber is used
as needed at the company's two factories
at West Paris and South Paris, but the
larger portion of it is used here. Lum-
Der is bought at considerable distances;
for instance, Manager Morton recently
went to Bangor and bought several
hundred thousand feet of poplar boards,
which were cut in the vicinity of Patten,
Aroostook County. Of the total amount
of lumber bought this winter, about
400, 900 feet has been delivered, in the
log, at the factory yard at South Paris.
In the yard of the Mason Lumber Co.
on Stony Brook is about 100000 feet of
pine which they will saw into boards,
and $50 cords of white birch which will
be manufactured into bowels. Quite a
business has also been done in shipping
pulp wood.
l.. S. Billings has in his yard and boom
almost exactly half a million feet of long
lumber, a large part of which is pine,
with some spruce, hemlock and hard
wood. In cord stuff he has about
seventy-tive cords, two-thirds of which is
cedar.
Pulp wood is becoming quite an i'm
portant article of commerce, and large
quantities of it have come in here dur
ing the winter. All of it is shipped by
rail, and several parties have been engag-
ed in shipping. The total shipments
from South Paris amount to something
over 500 cords. Two thirds of this goes
to the International Paper Co. at Rum
ford Falls.
1t will readily be seen that over mil
lion feet of long lumber and over a thou
sand cords of pulp wood, birch, ETC.,
have found a market in South Paris this
season. This is not the result of extern
sve clearing of lots, but has been done
mainly by small operators cutting from
their own lots. o. &. Curtis cut yearly
l5O, 1000 feet of pine from lot on the
Paris Hill road, and this is considerably
the largest item in the list.
Of the amount of cord wood drawn in
here it would be impossible to make an
estimate Only few cars of coal have
been secured for this place, and wood
has been used for fuel almost exclusively,
the consumption being much larger than
usual, in addition to which quite guam
tity has been shipped to the cities.