The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10

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nestle market has thus been relieved of
an oversupply that might have been In
furious. But relieved of this large pro-
portion of the output. the home market
has been strong. This is true of some
of the specialties. For instance, a Hat
tiesburg firm of wholesalers during the
past week booked an unusually large Or
der for pole stock at a price that Is
said to top the highest record of this
market
Notwithstanding the complaint of car
shortage, the stocks at the mills is not
seriously large. 1t is true that the mills
have not been pushed to their capacity
because labor has been hard to get and
because the mill men were not disposed
to pile up stocks when the prospects of
being able to ship were so forbidding.
Now, when the market picks up and
the material is in demand, the buyers
are not finding the mill men falling over
themselves in an effort to sell.
The effect of the improved trade con-
ditions Is apparent in a number of new
mills that are springing up, especially
In the coast country, where the timber
land owners are at once anxious to get
the advantage of the export demand and
to cut up the fallen timber before it is too
between Hattiesburg and Gulfport on the
line of the Gulf and Ship Island road In
the past few weeks. The Dantzler Lum-
Der company is among the most enter
pf1slng In arranging to cut over its lands
The Observation-Disclosures Lumber com.
pany of Laurel, Miss, has gone into
the federal courts to protect its leases
upon extensive tracts of timberland
which the company holds in the various
counties throughout south Mississippi
These holdings have been leased from
many different persons. Recently there
have been decisions In some of the state
courts which indicate that the lessons
may dispossess the lessees in cases where
the latter do not carry out the purposes
OF such leases, that is to remove the
timber, whiting a certain indefinite time.
known as a reasonable period
On the basis of these decisions, It an
pears that many of the lessons are seek
ink to GUST the Eastman Gardner com
pany by application to the state courts.
The company alleges that there is some
thing of conspiracy In all this and In
order to protect itself from multiplicity
of suits and to settle forever its rights
In the matter it has applied to the fed
eral court for restraining order against
these lessons.
The deputies from the United States
marshal's office have been travelling
through this section for the past week
serving the processes. A temporary re-
straning order was granted by Judge
Niles pending the hearing of the applica-
ton for perpetual injunction, which is
made returnable at the May term of
court at Jackson.
The whole episode appears to be the
outgrowth of the agitation over sixteenth
section school lands, the ,itiga ton over
which has had the effect of arousng the
original owners OF the timber property
to comprehension OF the value of their
possessions, a comprehension that is in
many instances exaggerated
Special announcement has Just been
made that the Interstate Lumber com
pany, recently organized with authorized
capitalization Of 100000 has purchased
the mills. timber and railroad holdings
of the D. c. Bacon Lumber company.
near Shipman. Miss, near the Alabama
line.
The price paid is not officially stated.
but is believed to be near $500 600. Nearly
10000 acres OF timber land and a fine
sawmll plant are included in the trans
fer. The new company will operate the
Bacon plant, and will produce about 25,-
100000 feet per annum. The directors In
the Interstate company are w. G. Day,
president; Fl. c. Brownell, C. r.
Brownell and H. c. Day.
Tho J. J. Newman Lumber company
is running its Sumrall plant now on day
shift only. The bulk of the force has
been moved to the Tattiesburg plant, the
intention being to clean up as much as
possible of the fallen timber in this ter
ritory The company's tram road is now
operating some twenty miles to the south
of Hattiesburg.
Camp and Hinton of Lumberton are d.
recting their energies these days princi-
pally to the getting out of lumber for
their Panama canal contracts. While the
total of these contracts is not immense
compared with the total output of the
south Mississippi mills, the filing of them
takes no insignificant share of the aggre-
gate output from the home market and
leaves that much more for the other
mills to cut.