The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-18
IN THE PINE BELT
 PROSPERITY IS EVIDENT

surrounding both these mills are prac- ticaliy the same. Both are enabled to take advantage of the logging ditches as a cheap means of transport 1 both are supplied with storage ponds where thousands of logs await their allotted turn at the saw. The cargoes | of these logging trains. like the car goes of the logging ditches are turned into the storage ponds.
 ! The way in which timber Is shipped after the saw has done It's work of
 trimming and squasing log into 2 2 | catches the interest of the lay visitor From each of these mills a logging ditch runs to Burnt Corn Creek. The in length. or are o thrown into the out going logging ditch. They float down to the Burnt Corn Creek and from there into the Escambia River. There Then they are headed to Pensacola. where they are marked. graded and sold to home or foreign markets.
 The Lovslace % mill; covering ~s tSs abSns Ssas equipped mills in the entire country. Steam is made use of in every possible way. A look through the mills shows be put, If some northern mills find 9. new use for steam, if a new apparatus Is put in which saves time and labor. its claims are inve.tigated by the it meets the needs and demands of lumber milling 1t is ordered and. es- 1 tablished in their Brewton plant. Timber and Lumber.
 4 little canal runs from the storage pond to the mill, hundred yards in length. At the mouth of this canal. that is where it leaves the pond, 2 workmen are stationed. He examines l the logs as they come to the mouth Of 1 the canal and he decides whether they shall go to the otpsg 9ng Ssa. siSe or se as sss cides whether they<shall be made into | timber or into lumber. The long logs | are transformed into timber. that is | and joists and for similar things. The | short side turns out lumber, that Is blanks. flooring and boarding and the l like.
 | one of the workmen stands at an instrument which operates a crosscut
 saw. It is to all intents and purposes
 8 crosscut saw which impeIled by steam
 runs back and forth with incredible
 decides that log shall be cut into
 timber has 1t guided into the canal
 which leads to the long side. If he wants the log cut into lumber he throws
 a hook into it, directs it to the short
 side canal and right under the whirr- ing saw gives the signal. In a second
 the saw sinks into the log as it Is sup
 ported by the waters and in few mo-
 ments the log is in two pieces and the saw is raised. Reaching the mill through the canal
 tho logs are handled in the same way
 by both the long side" and the short
 side' an endless steel chain with hooks
 rising at every few feet mounts
 steady incline from the water of the log ditch to the mill house. A negro
 guides the log upon this constantly
 turning chain. It is seized and car
 ried to the mill house. floor. There an
 throws the log off the chain and it is
 turned upon the heavy cars which run
 back and forth upon a railroad track.
 like some great shuttle in loom of
 industry Each of these flying cars
 carry three men. The whirling saws hare stationary. As the cars flash back
 and forth huge strips are ripped off,
 but they are ripped off with delicacy
 and accuracy. On the Tong side" as
 the logs are finished they are carried
 out on a carriage perpetually moved by
 steam. On the short side" the logs
 when they have been properly trim
 saws" which at one time splits 1t into
 eight or ten pieces of planking.
 The Ever Busy Steam.
 These pieces of, planking are Ire, thrown @
 over the head of the workmen to the
 side of the building where steam ever
 at work stacks them upon cars in large
 even layers t These ts druSg GarS pule6 tt,6s by
 blaming mills and there discharge
 their cargoes already staked and piled.
 All the lumber finished at these mills
 is not sent out by the logging ditch. Some of the timber and all the lumber
 are shipped by rails.
 The immensity of these two mills at
 Brewton Is impressive. The Cedar
 Creek Mill covers about twenty acres haa antt .F daily. A new mill is building which
 will increase it's capacity to 125,00O
 feet daily. The company has an in- vestment in the neighborhood of s6OO.- ident; F. c. Brent, ice-President,
 and W. W. Downing. Secretary and
 Treasurer
 The Lovelace mill. which is so com equipment, a mill which is said to be second to none in the country in this respect, represents half million dol lac investment; The officers of the } dent, W. Y. Lovelace, Vice President. ; and J. M. Lovelace, Secretary and Treasurer. w. Y. Lovelace is also } Mayor of the thriving little city. of } associates so largely helped to estab- fish. The mill has capacity of A6p,OOO feet daily.
 ! Each mill is enlarging its fields of l endeaVors. The Ceuar Creek Sohpany has just erected a fine sash, door and
 blind factory, The Lovelace Brothers have built a shingle mill and are pre- : pairing to establish a veneering works and q new system of extracting tur- pentine from chips and pieces of pine This company has also recently planted . fifty acres in strawberries.
 This is to be great industry in , South Alabama, the growing of straw . berries It is possible that this com
 oanv may go extensively into the busi- , ness. The growing of strawberries the agricultural possibilities of timber lands and the predicted future of the pine belt are to be treated of in fu- ture letter.
 A few facts are given here that have l contributed to make Brewton prosper
 ous clean and wholesome, a city Of at 3 tractive homes and city with tu-