The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-10
LARGEST OF KIND
IN The SOUTH
SASH, DOOR, BLIND FACTORY.
NEW ENTERPRISE OF SAVANNAH
LUMBER COMPANY STARTED.

Will BE Equipped with Finest Ma
chinery ObtainabIe-TO be Com
pIeted Early Next Year and win
Give Employment to Nearly $50
Hands-Manufac tures Chiefly for
Foreign Markets, with Big
Daily Output-On montgomery
Street, Near Fifty-Second.
Already under course of construction
the Savannah Lumber Company is
building at the south end of Mont
gomerty street, near Fifty-second, a
sash, door and blind factory which will
be the largest thing of it's kind in the
South.
When completed the factory will
have a daily capacity of about 500
doors, 600 windows and a large amount
of general hard interior finish products.
Starting from the dry kilns at one end
of the factory the raw materials will
pass from one machine and workman
to another. until it reaches the far
therest end and is ready for the ware
houses in the shape of a finished prod
uct
Recently Mr.. F. H. Morse, who will
be the superintendent of the plant
returned from an extended trip to in
spect the finest grades of machinery.
His instructions were to select the very
finest machinery made. For three
weeks he visited the Worlds Fair and
saw the displays there and then went
through the Northwest to visit some of
the big plants in that timbered section.
In the equipment for the plant are
included two Corliss engines, with 9TH
er machinery of equal reputation. The
machinery will be driven by electricity,
which enables an arrangement of the
other machinery which greatly facili-
tates the work.
Location of Factory.
For a location for the new factory
the company has purchased twenty
two acres of land conveniently stu
ated on the line of the Atlantic Coast
Line just beyond the city limits at
the south end of Montgomery street.
The brick foundations for the piers
are being laid this week, and some
of the machinery is on the way. The
contracts for all of the machinery have
not yet been placed, and will not be
until the building has progressed fur
Their.
Lie IlldiH factory Dulullg Will be
400 feet long and 125 feet wide There
will be employed in the neighborhood
of $50 hands, many of whom will be
skilled laborers. The monthly pay
roll will be high up in the thousands.
1t is expected that the factory will
be in active operation by the middle
of January.
For Foreign Markets.
While the local markets will not be
ignored, the products of the factory
will supply foreign markets princi-
pally. There is a goog demand for this
class of goods, and the company
anticipates no difficulty in dsposing
of the entire output of the plant.
Heretofore the Savannah Lumber
Company has confined it's operations
to the sawmill field, with an occa-
sional planning mill near by. At pres
ent it has large number of mills in
Georgia and Florida, and is possibly
the biggest concern of the kind in the
South.
Backed by practically unlimited CAPT.
tai, the company, in the year or more
it has been in existence, has purchased
many mills and much timber. It's
widening field is an evidence of the
progressiveness of the management
The following gentlemen compose the
company: Mr.. Lawrence Mcneil, presi-
dent; Mr.. j. ]. Cummings, vice presi-
dent; Mr.. j. F. McEachern.