The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-22
POPULAR AGENT RESIGNS
Timber Owners, for Want Of Little Ads
vertisng, Are Heavily Mulcted.


Especial TO The Times-Dispatch)
COCHRAN, VA, September 21.-The re-
signatlon Of Mr.. Fl. P. Dalton as agent
OF the seaboard Air Line Mt Cochran
has caused widespread regret He shared
the strenuousness Of starting and opera
ting a new railway, as the Seaboard was
when he entered its service. His close
and continuous devotion. to the various
interests he has managed 80 we'll for the
company has impaired his health to
some degree, and he resigns his position
in order to rest and recuperate. Fills flaw
less integrity; his fine executive and
business abilities: his untirlng industry;
his care Of and attention to the slightest
details OF his work conjoined with his
experience, these all fit him for any posi-
ton that the railway service offers. NO
doubt, after little resting SPELL his coH-
pany will offer him a position more COM
7nensurate with his merits and worth.
NIT. N. Jennings succeeds Mr. Dali
ton. and Is making a very favorable be-
ginning.
Most OF the tobacco crop is housed In
the main, the toba eco Is very good. The
lack OF sufficient help to save the tobacco
While in is best condition Is perplex-if
Ing some Of the larger planters. In many
Instances the colored hands hired Tor
the year have left the farmer for the
saw mills. How to do the work with one
pair of hands that was cut out for three
or four or five pair was the question on
that confronted the farmer when the
crops were half grown, and it Is the
question that confronts him now that the
crops are matured Where the farmer
was so fortunate as to secure white help,
he still t>has that help. No white hand
has deserted and left the farmer In dis
tress.
+ The hungry maws Of the mills ana
mines are rapidly devouring the beautiful
woods. In addition to swarming sa1f mills
that destroy thousands of trees daily
whole forests of trees are being shipped
North to be used as props in the mines.
The middle man. the mill man. the rail-
road and tho lumber dealer may be bene-
. fitted by the destruction OF our forests
but for the most Of US 1t means ruined
roads. broken bridges, and dreary, un.
slightly wastes. where once our noble
forests lifted themselves 4heavenward.
It also means abandonment OF the farm
for the mills on the part of the hands
that tho farmer could heretofore hire.
l All this would he much more bearable II
the farmer were getting teh value Of his
timber. Some valuable tracts were sold
eight or nine years ago for less than
one.fifth of their value. Much was SOLD
last year for about one-half Its worth.
a failure to use printers Ink In judi
cious advertising has cost tho farmers
of brunswick who had timber to sell
many thousand Of dollars. farmer
would have tract OF timer to sell; some
where was a man who wished to buy tim
Der and who really needed 1t for his busi-
ness purposes. But the farmer did not
know where thiabuyor was land the buyer
| did not know where the farmer and the tim
her were But there was one man that
knew all about both the farmer and the
buyer. Ee was the middle man; he would
approach the unsuspecting farmer make