The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-07-12
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How . Captain OF Industry Made Good on
the Coast.

nav y captain OF uStry aue Ooou un
the Coast.
Sol Simpson, logger, lied in Seattle
last Wednesday, leaving a wide circle
of business and social frien's to mourn
his loss. The business of logging has
" been credited with the same de,
gree of Importance as some other call
ings in which men engage. There have
been loggers on Puget Sound for more
than half a century, just as there
have been on the Columbia River and
in British Columbia. Sol Simpson
was not an ordinary logger. He was
one of those are captains of industry
who prove by their life work that
while all men are created free an0
equal, a few of them, by individual
effort and energy, soon dissolve the
bonds of equality. Early environment
and opportunity caused Mr.. Simpson
to drift into a line of industrial effort
where Drawn and brains were alike
necessary to success. The rare eXecu
tive ability and financial acumen that
developed in Mr.. Simpson later in life
is proof positive that equal success
would have followed his efforts in al
most any financial or commercial line
on which he might have started.
!, Beginning as a common laborer or
the railroad grade, Mr.. Simpson saved
his meagre wages, and through hill
great industry and ability to grasp the
essential features OF the most ordinary
task allotted to him, was soon in a posi-
tion to undertake sub-contracting on q
small scale. From that he moved OF
up the scale, until in the railroad build
ing era of the seventies" be held
number of important contracts on tht
Southern Pacific. With the decline Of
the railroad building he went to Seat
tie and engaged in the business of gen
eral contracting, but finding an INSULT
cheney of that class of work, turned t.
logging, q business in which for more
than twenty-five years he has stood a
The head. Beginning with a handful Of
men, half a dozen oxen and a few
chains, the Simpson Logging Company
developed into an enterprise which
now employs 500 men, owns many
miles of railroad with numerous en-
gines and cars, and annually puts IL
the water more than 100, 000,0 700 fee
Of logs.
A business cannot grow from moth
ing into such magnitude without thu
controlling influence of a master mind
and until the foundation of his sue
cess had been firmly placed Mr.. Simp
son remained in the woods with hi
men and oxen, directing every move
ment. He reduced the work of trans
porting m~erchantable timber from the
forest to the mill to a science, ant
while less enterprising loggers were
still engaged in hand logging or using
oxen, Simpson had installed the donkey
engine, tire logging railroad and Other
~up-to-date equipment. The world payi
tribute to industrial genius, and in dut
season by strict attention to his work
Sol Simpson, logger, accumulated more
money than he needed in his work. HI
bought steamboats, and steamships
and became heavily interested in n
merous banks on Puget Sound. Here II
Portland the steamship Oregon had
keen lying idle for months, badly il
need of repairs, which her owners
would not make, because they were I'm
able to discover a route on which shi
could make money. Regarding her IL
this ~unfavorable light, they sold hel
cheap, and her purchaser, Sol Simpson
logger, repaired her and placed her or
the Alaska route. where, on her first
trip, she made enough profit to pay
for her purchase price and the cost OF
repairs, and on her second trip added
more than $4,000 to the Simpson banl
account.-Portland Oregonian
In the "a%utocarte," a novel French
touring map, the road being Travelled
is shown upon a band Of paper, which
Is mounted on the dashboard of the
motor car, and by automatic unrolling
indicates the exact position Of the car
Mt any moment. 1t is especially useful