The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-12
No. A Dexter AvS.s

Sandy, opening up for the first time th' great Elkhoin coal territory ol Ftk' County, Kentucky. promises to oe ioI lowed by remarkable mining anu C CoNc making activity in that section. A bos' ion company owning largely over 1OO.UO' acres which will be reached by this lev load Is preparing for very large 1Ssra' tILhs, while Pennsylvania ana west VI f,tnta people, who have recently oouE Il several hundred thousand acres m th- same district, will probably prepare Io' active development in the near futurI.
 Although a little early vet t2 do mucn business in that line outside fumDerInen nave their eyes on Baltimore, knowing that vast quantities of all kinds Of t'M her will bs required in the work or fe- uilding, Some Of them have already ar rlved on the ground. MT. J. F. Stetson, of the Stetson Lumber Company, "ath offices at Macon. Ga, ana mliIs on 1r,a'. .n1 i1nea of the Georgia, Southern Flor- :da, and the Atlantic BirminSha,t, tl \ Railways in Georgia had business "lsu IT bcrs of the National Wholesale Luhi' her Dealers Association in conVentlei at Washington, and he took advantage of inc occasio and ran over to Baiti. more, being the first out-ot-town Ihii man or the scene He made a stuoy ol the burned district~and in taIklng Wtt representative of the Manufacture's Record about the demand for materials which must set in before long. he salt 1t would be impossible to estimate tnt quantities of yellow pine which would of required. . A.o. aood market for Southern pine, said MT Stetson. Not only has 1t been shlb' pInp point by water from Washington to Savannah. but interior mills hke oui have done a good business by ralL i-I Idvance in freight rates to Western uoints which went into effect last June more than ever turned the attention "i mills down our way to this sectioh' and to some extent forced the trade 10 edSt- ern markets. ,, A ,.-
 ra ,lroads here. but have on this trip al- ready closed several contracts with con
 truction companies. They are TOT dl-
 ocnsiOn stuif for building purposes. and
 include q con5ideraDle amount ot Iat tte Se ttnnbcry. We also handle anything m the lCng leaf yellow pine line, ana nave no Iount we will nave all we can do to mil urdcrs. once building Is actively uEqt 1T way The capacity Of our mliIs IS mO'
 I1m feet daily but as millions or feet |f lumber will be required-how ~Inaty millions 1 could not undertake tO guess
 I have no doubt there will be p.enti eor all of us to do. The railroads ara ,rI,ng us good rates now, so that Geo.
 7 t,,a V '''z r,n compete with North Caroiinu Ii. me market There iS not very much i[np leaf yellow pine left In N0r'h Carolina anyhow, and. besides that, gov trnment tests have proved that Georgia iomg leaf Is about the most desirable t,,aT can be obtained for building pCr- riees C'onsidera ble quantities of varI- n,,s grades of yellow pine are shipped .rom North Carolina, and there will be brisk demand for about everything all inc mills can turn out, I feel col- tdeot. There will be. probably. some ndvance Tn prices, although I do not Ionk for any sharp advance. I figure tbat finer wilt be a recovery from the slump which occurred last fall. but ,A'.'i. ,h,ulf that DricaS ui1l Oo hlwhar t%an tbev were two years ago.
 ..pinc will bc used very generally r,,c inc warehouses especially requiring tnra,. oaaattt'es of 1t. I figure that about all the mSsr Ss qse1 hs1e in the eS TeoTe