The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01
MANUFACTURE OF LUMBER.
Montgomery is FavOrably situated
 for this Industry.

The lumber interests of Montgomery in the past four years.
 In the value of the investments, in the volume of output and in the num- Der of employees the lumber plants have doubled in the four years just closing. Lumber manufacturing has grown steadily and rapidly. The growth has been almost phenomenal.
 It is a normal. reasonable growth. Natural conditions are largely respon- sible for it. The city is situated mid way between the fine heart timber re- gions of Middle Alabama and the rich extensive yellow pine timber fields of South Alabama. To the north the tim Der fields contribute to the lumber prosperity of the city and from the south comes a great volume of yellow pine lumber to be planed, manufactur- ed into different building material and shipped out again as finished product. The net work of railway lines that center fin Montgomery give the desired and necessary transportation facili- ties. Labor conditions are almost ideal and altogether no more inviting field for the manufacture of lumber is offered by any Southern city.
 Montgomery is called the greatest interior lumber market in the State. Mobile, of course, excels it. But Mo- bile is on the gulf. It is a seaport town and the Alabama lumber for for eign markets goes through Alabama s only seaport. But of the interior towns none approaches Montgomery.
 The COnecuh Company.
 The lumber plants of Montgomery are singularly well equipped and effi- cient. The fine plant of the Conecuh Pine and Lumber Company is an in stance in point The plant Is in North Montgomery, on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and on the Ala bama River. R. N. Chestnut Is the company's President and General Man ager; T. W. Webb is President and Secretary; and Omar Chestnut is Assistant Manager and Secretary. The company in its finely equipped plant does a saw mill and blaming business and manufactures yellow pine and pop lar lumber. bevel and drop sidings, ceilings. partitions and flooring, etc.
 We get the lumber we use both from South Alabama and from Middle Alabama" said Superintendent T. w. Webb. The company owns extensive Counties. We maintain a branch yard for the output of our timber fields in these counties at Wetumpka.
 Our principal business Is the manu- facrtre of lumber. The greater portion of the lumber which passes through our plant came originally from the yellow pine forests of South Alabama The timber which comes from Middle Alabama is. however. of a superior sort. It is mostly heart timber.
 We were compelled by force of cir | ct, and blind factory during last year. On the goth of August. 1903, we had a very damaging fire. The sash, door and and blind works were among the prop erty destroyed. We had to suspend while we were rebuilding. During that time lot of material accumulated. We have been working up the accumu- lated material, but it Is our purpose to rebuild the sash and door factory as soon as possible.
 Cur business on an average amounts to about $5,000 a week. Much of 1t IS local business. We have a fine trade in Montgomery. a trade that keeps five teams constantly busy in filling local orders.
 Most of our products. however. are shipped outside of Alabama. We have a large business in the North and Mid dle West, and we sell much of our products in Tennessee and Kentucky. Now we have five cars of lumber on the track here which have just been loaded. One car goes to West Virginia. one to Kentucky and three to Tennes- see.
 The year has been a prosperous one for us. We did a fine business. Inci- dentally we have just finished install- ing $1,500 worth of new machinery. The plant has grown rapidly since its establishment four years ago.
 Montgomery Is fine location for a lumber manufactory It has good railroad facilities and the rates are fairly good. We are on a par with other cities and we have no complaint to make against existing freight rates. Moreover, we have found the railroads quite willing to adjust any differ ences."
 The lumber interests of Montgomery are so varied in their nature they de- fy classification. In one respect they are similar. however, they all depend upon the material that comes from the woods and forests of Alabama. It is an interest that pays its benefit al once to the owner of the timber fields the manufacturer who takes the, out put of these fields and transforms fl into other shapes and the consumer who is thus able to supply his lum- Der needs at a lower price. The city Is fortunate in a number of extensive