The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-26
ANOTHER ADVANCE
 IN YELLOW PINE Prices Hold Up in the Hatties-
 burg Field RAILROADS BEING BUILT Production of Lumber Has Never Been Greater Than at the Present Time, Due Largely to the Favor
 able Weather.
RAILROADS BEING BUILT

Special )-Within sixty days there will be another advance of s2 or s all down the yellow pine list. That is the pre- diction of the manufacturers and buyers l hereabouts, and it indicates also the l spirit that Is animating the lumber men
 The mills are working on full time, there is the usual complaint of lack of cars that is generally heard when the mills are booming, manufacturers are holding out for stiff prices and getting them, and buyers are hustling nightly to secure the goods they want, and are having trouble to do 1t at that.
 Prices are strictly maintained; indeed the range for special stuff is perhaps above the quotation list in most cases l And at these prices the mill men are stacked with orders and are turning out the goods to the capacity of their ma chinery. The production was never great CT at this season of the year in this | part of the country. The weather has favored regular and profitable operations 1 It has been mild winter. There have 1 been but few days when the laborers could not get into the woods and mills In comfort, and for the most part the air has been balmy as to lnfuse the men with unwonted energy.
 Much Railroad Building. Revival of practical work in the matter of railroad building for the use of the lumber manufacturing syndicates has been the striking feature of affairs dur ing the past two weeks. The Mississippi Central has got forces of men busy al ready laying the line southward out of Hattiesburg in the direction of Pasca- goula The officials of the road and of the Newman Lumber company want 1t understood emphatically that, contrary to general supposition, 1t is not their purpose at this time to build the road to Pascagoula. The line has been sur veyed south of Hattesburg only some twelve miles, where 1t taps the big tim Der holdings of the Newman company in that direction. General Superintendent l.. l L. Majors says:
 Eventually no doubt, the Mississippi i Central will have a connection with Pas cagoula, but no steps have been taken ] in that direction yet It may be many years before we undertake to build the l through line. At present we aim only to tap our timber southeast of here, ] in order to get supply to keep our Hat tiesburg mill going. Since we have got our Sumrall mill in operation it is evil dent that the Sumrall plant will be able | to saw up all the timber we control west of here, and 1t Is reasonable that we l should go in another direction for timber ! for the Hattiesburg plant when we can ! get it with a haul of from five to ten miles, whereas at present We are haul ing some eighteen or twenty miles and 1 taking timber that could be handled more advantageously by the Sumrall | mill"
 But the Mississippi Central is losing no time about it's extension to the west. l The big steel drawbridge over the Pearl | river has been so far completed as to ! permit the tracklayers to go over it, and track laying is now in progress be- | tween the river and Brookhaven At the same time the company is rapidly shap- l ing things for the extension from Brook | haven to Natchez new corporation, l known the Natchez and Eastern Rail- road company has been formed to make this extension, the organization of a separate corporation being necessitated by the peculiar corporation laws of the state which prohibit the holding of only a limited amount of property by any one corporation.
 To Build Into Jackson.
 The Goodyear company is also active- 1 ly pushing preliminary work for the ex- l leHSlOH Ol l1tlF TdllTOhu properties. 1 Surveying forces are in the field and it Is again stated, on what authority 1t is impossible to say that the New Or leans and Great Northern will build right into Jackson, the rumored deal with the Gulf and Ship Island for the hauling of the Goodyear business into Jackson having failed of successful negotiation.
 Another erstWhile lumber road that is showing signs of elaboration isaJ J. | Whites line out of McComb City, 1t Is now supposed to be headed for Coum- bus, and if that is so 1t may eventually | form a link in the through route that is proposed to run from Birmingham to | Baton Rouge through Hattiesburg, and which prospective line is suspected of | having the backing and support of the | Illinois Central system.
 Double Their Capacity.
 l The Brownlee Lumber company. manu- | lecturers of cross arms for telephone l and telegraph, who are now operating | a plant at Shubuta, Miss, contemplate | removing the machinery of another plant | now being operated at Chattanooga | Tenn, to Shubuta. thereby doubling the capacity of the Shubuta enterprise The | firm will also add other woodworking machinery. The move is made in order | to concentrate operations at one point and that the location is to be perma- nent Is evidenced by the fact that Mir l Brownlee. the head of the enterprise