The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-12-05
Plant Of Iide~aiss Company 0ae Of the
Asst Esieasise ia the State.

=. cfhapS no county in
the State has made more rapid
strides in developing natural
resources than Wise has within
the past fifteen wears. Thi.
county lies in the extre
southwest section Of the State.
"A mountainous section. whose
Ills rest upon strata of bifum.
inous coai OF a very fine quail
ity. while they are covered bv
valuable timber. of several va
rleties, TO their very SUBMITS
mere are several u m b er
plants IN different sections of
the county, and on account of
such large demands being made
upon them for their products
the supply OF timber has been
somewhat depleted. hut still
there remain large tracts of
timber lands practically un-
touched.
The Tidewater Stave and
Lumber Company has the larg-
est plant perhaps in the county.
This plant is located on Pound
River, Indian and Bolecamp
Greeks, IN the northwestern
section OF the county. Their
holdings cover considerable
portions of these streams he
sides nearly the whole OF Cum
berland Mountain for several
miles above and below Pound
Gap. The headquarters OF the
company are IN New York Civ.
with K. ID. Benson as president.
The original plant of this
company was located i'm CLAW
county, w. Va. until about a
year ago, when they purchased
the interests OF w. j. Stevens.
who had bought up large tracts
of timber lands and commenced
operations. Since the transfer
OF these interests the present
owners. under the local man
agement of G.. W. Gleason. of
Giamorgan, have pushed the
work until Il has reached its
present gigantic proportions.
In all, the company own and
operate about twenty miles Of
railroad, extending from Gla-
morgan down Indian Creek To
ITS mouth, up Pound River and
up Bolecamp Greek. They are
extending these lines still far
ther. They have seven mills
for cutting slaves and lumber.
with an average daily capacity
OF $4,000 feet About 600 men
are on the pay roll. Common
laborers are paid Sl.25 per day.
while skilled labor demands 81.
/ The pay roll amounts to about
1900 per month.
Employees with families are
required to pay 81 90 per month
for medical services, but single
men pay only fifty cents. Drs.
Hicks and Richards are the
company's physicians.
This company owns about
10000 acres of standing timber,
which it is estimated will re-
quire from six 20 seven years
TO work up. The monthly out
put of products from their mills
is estimated at 1000, 900 feet.
which in six years would reach
the grand total of 72,O00. 900
\ feet.
Their products are shipped
over their own line of road to
Glamorgan, where they have a
pianer and other machinery for
preparing them for use. The
staves are shipped from Gla-
/ morgan over the Wise Termi-
nal TO Norton, and from there
over the Norfolk * Western \
lines, and those intersecting, 10
their factory mt Bayou, n. j..
There they have boiler and
refinery. The company has
large oil interests, and their
slaves are all used in their own
business. Their lamber prod
ucts are sold largely TO the mar
kets.
The company has about l0o
houses, erected for the accom-
modatson of the employees.
/ They rent at from $I.O0 to
$500 per month, according to
the Number of rooms they con-
tain A n rox.fSs ~, x..<x~s-nI a -