The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
CONDITIONS GOOD
IN LUMBER CAMPS
Operators Head Over Heels in
Business
A NOTABLE SOCIAL EVENT
Many New Operations In Lumber and
5y-Proddcts Recorded In the Tim
Der Districts of Mississippi
Notes OF Interest
A NOTABLE SOCIAL EVENT


Hattiesburg, Miss. April 2s.-tSpeciaD.-
With ideal weather for out-of-door opera
tions. with as fair a service of rolling
stock as the lumbermen ever have reason
to expect, and with labor as plentiful as
it ever gets to be in the piney woods,
where labor is VIGOROUSLY the scarcest
article on the market the lumbermen of
the yellow pine country have been head
over heels with business during the past
two weeks, and the amount of material
that has been turned out by the hundreds
of mills must have gone a long way to-
ward filing the expectations of the mar
ket. The fact that the values of their
commodity are no longer rushing upward,
as they were three months ago, makes
no impression on the mill man. He Is
too busy to think about something which
does not more seriously affect him than
does the abstrac question of future mar
ket quotations. He knows that he is
stacked UP with orders at current prices,
that these prices are so good as to bring
him rich reward if only he will turn
out the goods, and he is not only willing,
but anxious, to let the other fellow waste
time studying out the prospects of the fu-
ture, while he takes substantial advan-
tage of the golden present.
Fluctuations OF the market, whether up
ward or downward, have not affected the
manufacturers yet There has been no
change. and no change is anticipated.
The mills are busy working on old or
ders, and on new ones that come in, per-
haps not as thickly as they were expect
ed at this season, but in sufficient num-
bers and for sufficient quantities to leave
no fear that the mills will run into a
spell of idleness for some time The
manufacturers are satisfied with current
quotations, and are no more thinking of
reaching for higher price lists than they
are of making reductions on current
prices. Conditions at the mills are salts
factory in every respect. and the yellow
pine manufacturing business goes on mer-
rily
The Concealed Octopus
The Mississippi legislature that will go
down in history as the original discoverer
of the octopus concealed under the trade
organization of the lumber men of Mis-
sissippi has passed away, and with it
passes the last echo of that celebrated in
vestigation. True, the federal judicial
authorities at Washington have asked for
and have been furnished a copy OF the
testimony taken by the investigating COM
mittee, and it is not believed that the
federal officials wanted this matter for
merely ornamental purposes. But at the
same time it is conceded that If they
ever had any idea of inaugurating pro-
ceedings against these alleged trade con-
spirators of Mississippi their views on
that subject would Change when they
came to calmly and judicially peruse the
testimony adduced. No fear is enter
tanned of any further trouble from the
source of the federal trust-busters, and
before the legislature adjourned such
action was taken as precludes the possi-
bility of any further action on the part
of the state OF Mississippi.
Last week Representative McAllister Of
Wayne county, who was chairman of the
lumber trust investigating committee of
the legislature, which committee turned In
a majority report purporting to uncover
a trust of sufficient magnitude to warrant
remarks, turned over to Assistant At
torney General Fletcher at Jackson a
complete record of the testimony in the
case. This record constitutes a bound
NOluihe u SOinc bdehAhhNN, ef''N - "a
transmission to the attorney general Of
the United States.
At the same time Mr.. McAllister made
statements which leave the impression
that he does not consider any further
proceedings on the part of the state to
be necessary. The quo warranto action
would be useless, since the withdrawal of
the Wholesalers from the organization Of
the retailers has brought about the only
result that could have been achieved by
legal action. This being the opinion ex-
pressed in official quarters by the legis-
lator, who was foremost in the demand
for legal action, 1t is reasonable to be-
lieve that the whole subject will be
dropped
Notable Social Function
A notable social function in which the
leading personages were people who have
been prominently Identified with the de-
velopfnent of the lumber industry of South
Mississippi was the celebration of the
silver wedding anniversary of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. II. Hinton at Lumberton on April
r. Mrs Hinton is the daughter of Mr..
j.. J. White of McComb who has been a
leader in the lumber and railroad devel-
opment of the piney woods country for
wears. Mr.. and Mrs. White were honored
guests at this celebration. Twenty years
ago Mr. Hinton and his cousin, II A.
Camp, settled at Lumberton when there
were but two cabins in what is now quite
a fiourshing little city. They establish
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