The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-08-29
LUh|BER|NG CENTER
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Enormous AnnualOutput
Near Redwood
GENESIS OF A TOWN

Of West Virginia cities, says George
BNrne in the Manufacturers Record.
Eight yearsIa ago the site of the town
was~a back-country farm. Now there
are here at ,least $500 people, with
graded public schools employing IS
teachers, 81 churches, 2 banks, IS
stores, excellent hotels and a num-
Der of others of smaller size and
cheaper accommodation, a theater,
hospital and more than the usual
number OF restaurants and small
business establishments found in or
binary towns Of like size. /,
In 1901 the Cherry River Boom
& Lumber, Co., erected big mill
here and began to take the timber
from tract Of $4,000 acres it had
purchased-fr from various parties
Later the. company took over mill
property and timber lands from the
baltimore &c Ohio Railroad, and now
it has mill at -Gauley,
some rs miles west of here, and one
at Holcomb, between here and
Camden-on-Gauley, while it's holdings
of timber lands now amount to
10000 acres. At these three mills
and from this great body of land
the company is now taking and cut
ting a daily average of 100000 feet
Of lumber. OF this, 100000 feet Is
cut here, 100000 feet at Camden-on-
Gauley and $4,000 at Holcomb.
There are employed on the mill here
about 800 men, while the woods
force, which does the timbering for
all the mills, but is directed from
here, reaches 1900 men. The Cam
den -on-Gauley mill works 100 men
and the Holcomb' mill So So that
the Cherry River Boom & Lumber
Co employs in this neighborhood
full 1860 men. The land now being
cut over is timbered heavily with
spruce and ;hemlock, and yields an
average of 5000 feet to the acre.
This is a hig yield, yet even at that
80 acres must be stripped each
working day. to furnish food for the
teeth, of the lgreat saws that reduce
it to merchantahle lumber.
Between this place and Camden
on-Gauley, aAi Curtin, the Pardee &
Curtin LunfRS&r Co. has two mills
which cut addaily average of $50, 900
feet. The force of men employed on
/ the mills ana In the woods reaches
400. 4. 81 a.
At Allingdale the Roane Lumber
Co. has big mill, and has cut a
great deal Of lumber. Recently the
company has purchased more land,
and has now enough timber to en-
ploy it's min CIR several years.
At FenWicE: the Fenwick Lumber
Co. and the laurel Manufacturing
Co., the latter being the sawmill
company and the former the lumber
purchasing COMPANY, have a mill
that is cuttings!about 100000 feet a
day.
At Tioga, which is on the waters
| OF Birch river, about six miles from
| the Baltimore e Ohio Railroad at
Allingdale, the Tioga Lumber CO. is
operating a big mill and saving
| 200 feet Of lumber daily.
SO that within Is miles of this
place the mills are cutting at least
100000 feet of lumber daily, or
225 100000 year. If all the land
being denudcd of forest averaged
900 feet to the acre it would take
90 acres day, or $4,000 acres a
year, to feed these mills. But 49,
| 900 feet is too big an average, and
SO the number e. Of acres reaches
nearer to 10000, The Cherry River
Boom & Lumber Co. has sufficient
land to keep its saws cutting for IS
years. The company is backed by
Scranton Pa.) capital, and has it's
principal Offices in that city.
| Next to the Cherry River Boom &,
Lumber Co. the most important con-
Germ here is the Cherry Tanning Co.
lTh1s is a Boston concern. it's chief
office being IN the Massachusetts
capital. 1t employs here from 800
to 400 men and turns out daily 900
sides Of sole leather, which Els it's
only product iHemlock bark is the
kind principally used. The hides all
come from South America.
! The Cherry River Pulp & Paper
co. is another important concern. 1t
was established some four years ago.
and has been turning out 50 tons of
paper daily until short time ago.
when it's output was increasd to IS
tons daily. The product is heavy
wrapping paper.
The Dodge Clothespin Co. has a
factory here and one at Lincoln, N.
H., its CHIEF office being in Couders-
port, Pa. This company makes at
ats two mills half the clothespins
used in the world 1t employs here
about Is people, more than half be-
ling women, who are engaged in
packing the output. 1t is reported
Mere that the plant at Lincoln is to
be closed down and the output here
Increased to doub1e what if Is now