The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-28

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 business of saving up the fallen timber
 with great energy. The areas belonging
 to this company which received the brunt
 of the storm lie to the south or tms clty. Within the past few weeks the Missis-
 sippi Central railroad has completed ten-mile extension in that direction. Now the company announces that another ten
 or fifteen miles will be built, extending
 almost to the Harrison county lipe, and traversing the bulk of the Newman com pany timber holdings. Thus 1t will be made feasible to get the timber to the
 big mill at Hattesburg. The main army
 of men at the Sumrall mills will be brought on to TIattiesburg so as to work this plant to it's fullest capacity. 1nci- dentally. the construction of this addi- tional mileage by the Mississippi Gen.
 tral, while only intended for logging pur- poses at present, will bring the Hatties-
 burg -Pascagoula railroad connection that
 much nearer. The logging road will be
 built with standard roadbed and heavy
 rails, ready for transformation into a | traffic line whenever the company gets
 ready.
 Not Frightened by Storm.
 The Edward Hines Lumber company of | Chicago is one of the large lumber cyn- | dicates which have not taken fright at l their Mississippi timber aecumulations be- l l by the fact that they have just closed
 a deal for the holdings of the Champion | Lumber company at Orvisburg, deal which at current lumber and saw mill | prices must have involved considera- | tion of near three-quarters of a million | dollars. The news of this deal comes by
 way of Chicago, and is altogether au- | thentic It was closed a week ego. The | Hines company get a saw mill plant Of l s0O0O feet daily capacity; 1S,000 acres of | timberland. with about 300,000,0V0 feet of l yellow pine stumpage seventeen miles Of
 standard gauge logging road, with rolling
 stock and equipment; the general mer- cantile store conducted by the Champion
 company. with it's stock of goods and a number of dwelling houses owned by the selling company in Oryisburg
 The Edward Hines company was al- ready a heavy holder of yellow pine tim
 Der lands in that section, and 1t is stated that the recently acquired mill will be
 used for time in saving timber felled
 by the recent hurricane on the company's lands. Much of the stock cut will be
 used by the purchasing company itself for railroad and mill construction. It has been consistently rumored that the Hines
 company would undertake the construe- tion of standard gauge railroad to Gulf port, Miss, from some point near Orvis- burg This purchase is right in line with
 such a project MT. Hines is known to
 be a strong admirer of Gulfport as
 lumber shipping point. and when the company comes to engage in the cutting
 out of its timber holdings, direct line
 of it's own to the gulf will be great
 convenience as well as economy.
 Liqnum Plant About Ready.
 The future of the plant of the Lgnum Product company, the only establish
 ment in the world that transforms saw
 dust and saw mill refuse into the alco- hol of commerce, is about to be deter
 mined. The plant has been perfected, and is now in practical working condition.
 But it has been found, in practical op-
 eraton, that by the expenditure of a relatively small amount of money, the capacity can be greatly increased, and 1t is a question whether the company will proceed to operate at it's present capacity or wait till the machinery shall be in-
 stalled, which will increase the capacity.
 There is a strong desire on the part of
 the company to go ahead and realize something at oAce on the investment of
 a third of a million dollars, which this plant represents; but at the same time it is realized that with the approach Of
 the time when prohibltive tax on alco- hol will be removed will come demand for the product that will require as much capacity at this plpnt as can possibly be provided, and the company realizes that now is the time to put itself in po- sition to take full advantage of the com ing market opportunities.
 Some six months ago the Iignum Prod
 uct company, after having devoted
 couple of years to the installing Of ma chinery, came to the conclusion that the perfecting of the plant could be done
 better by persons with special equipment for that business and so engaged the Warren Contracting company Of New York to take charge of the work ThA