St. Tammany farmer., 1905-12-09
Will Build a Town.
Site Not Yet Selected.
tTimes-Eemocrat, Dec.5.1

1icting reports as to :he proposed
location of the town that is to be the
cente; of the milling operations OF
The Great Southern Lum5 Com
pany, in Louisiana and Mississippi,
on The line of the New Orleans
Great Northern Railroad, both cor
porations being controlled by the
Goodyear interests, that an official
announcement was made yesterday
that the cite has not yet been Sc
lected. and likely will not be before
the 6rst of the year. Several sites
are under consideration, but so
many features enter into question
of this kind that the men who are
directing the negotiations move
slowly, in order that no mistake
shall be made.
''This town will be no small af-
fair,'' said representative OF the
Goodyears, yesterday.
mot only will all the timber
from our extensive acreage be
milled there, but it will also be the
location Of the shops of the New
Orleans Great Northern road. Re-
ports coming from apparently au.
thentic sources have been spread,
fixing certain point as the one
where we are to establish the town.
This has set the land spectators
busy, and l am sorry for them, for
l know of numbers OF them who
will lose large sums of money
through their having been mis-
guided. Their holdings are many
miles from the place where 1t is
likely that We will build our mill
and railroad chops. For their bene-
fit, and for the protection of others
who may be thinking Of grabbing
up property, you can state posi-
:lvely that the site has not been
chosen. Due announce ment will be
made when it is"
The Great Southern Lumber
Company owns large tracts Of pine
land in St. Tammany and Washing
ION parishes, in Louisiana. and in
several counties in Mississippi. All
these lands will be tapped by the
line of the New Orleans Great
Northern, which is building from
Siideli, La, north, to the neighbor-
hood of Smiths Ferry, in Lawrence
County, Miss. This line, Of which
twenty-five miles IS under construc.
ton, will be 100 miles in length.
The New Orleans Great Northern
has absorbed the East Louisiana,
which extends from Pearl River
Junction west to Ablta Syringe,
Covington and Folsom, with a
branch running to Mandevllle, on
the north shore Of Lake Pontchar-
train. The East Louisiana, which
now Is known under the name O!
the parent company. is fifty miles
in length. Il will be nearly a year
before the New Orleans Greet
Northern is completed to its north
ern terminus Connection near
Smiths Ferry will be had with the
Mississippi Central
Local contractors have been in
vited by the New Orleans Crest
Northern to submit bids on homes
that are to be built for the EN-
ployees OF the railroad and the
lumber company on the proposed
town site. The request for bids is
signed by A. c. Goodyear, pnrchss-
ing agent Of the New Orleans
Great Northern. The work on
which proposals are asked IS de.
scribed as follows: Fifty to 100
negro houses, TO cost about 5000 TO
800; fifty to 100 white houses, TO
cost from $4o0 to $5oo;' 100 to 200
houses to cost from $500 10 $3.50;
ifty to 100 houses, to cost from
$500 to $l0oC: fifty to lOU houses,
% cost from $1,000 to 1920; TWEEN
'y-five houses. to cos: from $1,000
20 $500 All houses costing over
b9Uo to have bath rooms. The in !
'itstion Tor the bids has deem bul
etined at the Mechanics, Dealers
Ind Lumbermen's Exchange, and
III members are requested to sub.
nit plans ana specifications and
make propositions upon the struc.
ures at about the figures given, at
heir earliest convenience. It is
tated that all the houses shall be |
et on either tile, concrete or brick
,iers, and be from two to three feet
lbove the level of the ground.