The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-06
Immense Lumber Plant Operated at Lockhart

| water WoTkS system, us own eIeCtr1C light system. its own town with big lhotel. public school system. A park, a church and separate residential sec ltions for white and colored people, a Isaw mill which has daily output of | 15O,000 feet of lumber a saw mill rep Iresenting an investment of s1,S00, ,0e0 lwith it's own field of timber containing 14S.500 acres of such is the immense iplant of the Jackson Lumber Company whose mill and houses are in the woods two miles from Florala in the little town the company has built called ILockhart
 It IS one of the most important and one of the largest lumber enterprises in the United States. In the class of the Jackson Company's mill there are only two other plants in the South. By name these are the Crossett Lumber 1 Company at Crossett, Ark, and the Sul- livan-Alger Company's plant at Gen. Itury, Fla. In many respects the Jack son plant is superior to the other Southern mills which have been named. In point of equipment the Jackson mill no doubt has the advantage of it's two Irivals. The completeness, the convent ence. the superiority of the machinery of the big mill at Lockhart are the ad- miration of all visitors to the interest ing little town.
 | The mind of the 1ayman may hardly appreciate the vast holdings of the company in timber lands. The man unfamiliar with timber lands may not readily grasp the extent of vast do- main, which contains 14s.500 acres of land. It is bigger thing than some of the municipalities and grand duchies Iof Europe. It Is a bigger thing, this domain, than the counties of some of the older States of the Union.
 But most important ofkall to the cap italists who own the timbered domain is the fact that it will furnish food for their saws for the next twenty-five years, a time when the saws of other mills will have become idle and silent for years past.
 There are features about this mill which are no less astonishing to the uninitiated. this big standpipe for one | thing. This institution is put up for the sole purpose of protecting the mill from fire and yet there is not a water works system in any Alabama town of 4,00O people which can show a better or a more complete standpipe. The closest precautions that are inaugur- ated to put out fires and prevent the enormous loss that flames could bring about by the destruction of the immense property are the things that most inn press the visitor. A special force pump for fires has been established. Every engine room about the whole plant is Iencased in brick. There are three or four of these engine rooms and there is. not one of them but that Is enclosed | fin brick walls. The danger of fire to the mill. which Is the great and ever present menace to the saw mill inter tests, is here reduced to a minimum. and incidentally the company gets a lower rate of insurance, which helps lthe semi annual dividends.
 | Another detail of the mill which gives an evidence of its complete equip ment is the long galvanized iron pipe which winds and twists over the roofs of the mill and which you are told is the conveyance used for shooting shay ings and saw dust from the blaming mill to the various engine rooms. This pipe Is similar and identical in it's principle with the big galvanized pipes (which suck up wagon loads of seed cot ton at the big ginnerles of the State and throws them to the gin as ready | food for the saws.
 l By this pipe the mill Is able to avail itself of the hundreds of pounds of shavings that would otherwise go to waste daily in the blaming mill. In- stead of going to waste the shavings are whisked to the engine room and put to use as fuel for the various en- zines.
 Utilities of the Mill.
 It is not uncommon for the big mills in South Alabama to have their own systems of electric lights, and the one at the Jackson plan is only notable by reason of its efficiency. The electric | light system gives the mill force long, CT day when winter is on and 1t allows the mill to run day and night when 1t is desired to increase the output of l. the mill.
 l There are no rough and unpainted buildings about the mill proper, or across the tracks of the railroad where stands the town of Lockhart. Neat ness and efficiency, efficiency and neat lness throughout are the distinguishing characteristics of the Jackson plant. The homes of the employees are not Ionly neatly and attractively built but the streets are worked and kept c&an land all the houses from the largest to the smallest are tastefully painted
 The mill works both whites and blacks, but the living quarters of the two races are separate and distinct. They are divided by large pine for est park. There ia a hotel, a big roomy, two-storied hotel, which is said to be kept in a style equal to any along the Florida line, even as the big
 
 Is said to be one of the largest mer- lcantile establishments Tn South Ala hama. So large is 1t that although 1t is the only store in the place every drummer that travels in that territo- ry who has the least hope of any bus mess from the company makes this saw mill town of Lockhart.
 | The Jackson Lumber Company gets
 its name from one of its primary pro- l
 individual stockholder in the company
 former Governor E. F. Jackson of
 Maryland. but who now lives at Wash
 ington, D. C. The town of Lockhart
 is named for Charles Lockhart, a cap-
 itallst of Pittsburg who was associated
 with Governor Jackson in the purchase
 of the big tract of timber Iand which
 made possible the Lockhart plant. 9th.
 CT leading stockholders of the company
 are lumber men and capitalists oi
 Davenport, Ia.
 The Jackson Lumber Company's plant is one of the six largest mill. , which are closely connected and whicf
 are known in the lumber trade as the
 allied lumber interests. The work anC
 the welfare of each of these mill:
 dovetail and fit into those of the oth. CTS. The six mills so allied are those of the Eagle Lumber Company oi Eagle, Ark, the Fordyce Lumber Com.
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