The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29

Union Irrigation company and to local
people.
The Mendenhall Lumber and Manufac-
turing company of Memdenhall Simpson
county, has just been formed with capital
of $4,000 L. c. Adams. J. J. Conan of
Jackson and others are interested.
The Oliver-McAroy Lumber company
has got plan on foot for the erection Of
a large milling plant not far from Laurel.
The company owns extensive tracts of
timber in that vicinity
opens New Field.
= Fred Herrick of Lac du Flambeau, Wis,
has just come into possession of an inn
1nense tract of timber land in the north
ern part of the state, having bought the
interest of Foley & Larson of st. Paul in
over 10000 acres of the finest yellow pine
and hardwood to be found standing in
the state. The deal involved consider
alton of $500. 600 and that sum was paid
in cash The land lies up the valley Of
the Pearl river. Mr.. Herriek, IL Is un-
derstood, proposes to develop the prop
erty, erecting one or more large mills,
and this will involve the construction Of
a railroad that is expected to become
something more than mere tramway.
The property was in litigation at the
time of the closing of this deal The prop
erty was held in the name of Foley &
Larson of St Paul, but there was a claim
against it for commissions on purchase
amounting to $E15,O00 but this suit was
settled and the claim wiped out as part
of the concluding transaction.
The Fernwood Lumber company OF
Fernwood, La, was one of the heaviest
sufferers from the heavy rains of this
spring. The company computes it's dam
ages from injury to plant and loss Of
time at not less than $1,000 The mill
has resumed operations, and is in good
shape again.
Three new saw mill plants are about to
be erected and operated in and near
Angie, La and that town is on quite a
boom as the result of these glitterlng
prospects. Denerson g. Vince will estab-
lish one plant inside the city limits, sgd
Ferguson will put in a mill in the north
ern part of the city, having some 1900
acres of timber land to cut over, and
Rouse & Rankin are looking for a suit
able location for another plant
Jasper Ala. " in high feather over the
probability of maps being taken on u
large scale for the development of the
lumber resources of that vicinity 1t is
said that Chicago capitalists who have
secured possession of several thousand
acres of yellow pine IN that neighborhood
are figuring ON the erection of large mills
and the building of extensive railroads
that will bring their output on the market
profitably. The belt of timber owned by
these people is said to be one of the rich
est to be found in all Alabama.
Legislation Delayed.
The state Legislature has adjourned
without having taken action upon the
bill introduced by Representative Stewart
b. Stevens of Perry county, looking to
the establishment of state inspection
of naval stores. The bill offered was in
essential details the same as the laws on
this subject in force ip Florida, Geor-
gia and other states. The measure was
favorably viewed by the Mississippi
solons, but 1t was introduced too late to
get action at this session.
The Foster Creek Lumber company of
Wilkerson county has just had it's char
ter amended so as to permit an increase
of capital stock to $S00,OO0
The Cotton State Lumber company, the
scene of whose operations is principally
in Lauderdale county. has streng thened
It's position in the yellow pine territory
by acquiring the full title to all the prop
critics recently held by the Meehan-
Rounds company. The latest transfer
calls for 1908 acres of timber land in the
vicinity of Meehan Junction, for which a
the original purchase price paid for the
Meehan- Rounds plant and roads. the Cot
ton States Lumber company is credited
with having spent several million dollars
in getting in shape for business in the
yellow pine country, but 1t now has a
splendid property, and has secured con-
troll of enough timber to keep its mills
going for several generations.
New Corporation.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in New Orleans for the organization
of the Harrison County, Miss. Naval
Stores company, with capital stock of
$500. 600, fully paid up. r. NJ. Davis of
Biloxi is to be the president, and num-
Der of well-known turpentine men of diff
ferent parts of the adjacent country are
interested in the enterprise. The turpen-
tine industry of the gulf coast country
has been expanding rapidly of late, and
the interest in the manufacture of this
staple Is by no means a trifle in the ag-
gregate of the finances of the state.
The Collaboration Lumber company of
Brookhaven, in Lincoln county, has just
been organized with a capital of $4,000.
j. N. Cooke, c. f. Grafton and others
are interested. tFt
c. e. Myers, w. e. Jackson and others
are the incorporators OF the Lake Luin-
Der company. domiciled in Newton coun-
ty, and capitalized at $4,000
A stock company has been formed at
Gulfport to operate plant for the STAIN
ing and oling OF shingles by patent
process, the invention of j. A. Byers.
The officers of the company eie: w. A..
Davis, pgesident; f. W. Beall, yice-presi-