The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-10
TIMBER COMPANY
BUYS MORE LANDS
Has a Million Dollars Worth of
Additional Timber
WILL BUILD RAILROAD
Line Will Extend From PoplarVllle
Section rs Miles to the Gulf at
GuIfport-WiII Garry
Passengers.
WILL BUILD RAILROAD

Hattiesburg, Miss, February 9-(Spe-
cial.) 1.-The Edward Hines Lumber com
pany of Chicago now takes the front of
the stage as the promoter of big enter
prses in the yellow pine area For sew
eral months it has been known that that
company had extensive plans afoot for
the development of its timber properties
In this state which lie chiefly in the
neighborhood of Poplarville. But moth
ing substantial was done in that direc-
ton till the last week or two, when high
representatives of the company came to
south Mississippi and opened up opera
lions on a scale of great magnitude The
first thing these gentlemen did was to ac-
quire possession of a million dollars
worth of additional timber land in Har-
rison and Hancock counties. convenient
to the line of railroad which the company
has surveyed from Poplarvlle to Gulf
port. This land consists of $1,000 acres,
and was bought from j. II. Moore and
Leonard Field, who are Michigan lum-
bermen who have been operating in tim
Der lands in this section on a large SCALE
The price paid was in the neighborhood
of $26 per acre, which is regarded as
quite cheap, and the entire transaction
involved $925,000.
To Build Railroad.
The next step of the Edward Hines
company was to let the contracts for the
construction of its seventy-five miles Of
railroad to lead from it's lands and mills
in the Poplarville neighborhood to the
gulf at Guifport. While this road will be
constructed primarily for logging pur-
poses, it will be put into use for general
traffic, freight and passenger from the
start, and will therefore be built of stand
ard grade and equipped with standard
material 1t will furnish Gulfport with
its second lumber road. and 1t has been
welcomed to Gulfport by Capt j. T.
Jones with characteristic liberality on his
part He has secured for the new com
pany complete right of way through the
city of Gulfport to the waters edge, and
over in the water he has given the COM
pany the right to build an additional
pier out to the anchorage BASIN The
pier will be built at once the contract
for the material having been given to the
milis up and down the Gulf and Ship Is
land road. A great quantity of material
mill be used, and the filing of the order
will not be without effect upon the activ-
lty OF the mills during the spring and
summer.
Although the Edward Hines companv
already own number of saw mills scat
tered over their timber holdings. thew
nave concluded that they need another
large mill at some central point to cut
up the logs that will be hauled in Off the
road. Gulfport has been selected for this
mill, and location has been secured in
the northern part of that city. II is
planned to make this one of the largest
mills in the state, and operations will he
carried on to the greatest advantage the
mill being convenient as well to the for
ests and to the shipping point
Railroad Overcharqes.
whenever two or more Mississippi um-
Der manufacturers or wholesalers get TO-
gether for a CONTEMPLATION, the chances
are very strong that charges for over
weights by the railroads will be the sub
1eet OF their conversation. Such charges
nave not been unknown in all past times
but 1t appears that of late the railroads
nave nave peeh putting an extra pressure on
their weighing clerks, with the result
that the roads are able to carry on brs-
mess largely with the shippers money
whiie claims for rebates are being de-
bated.
1t is found by inquiry among the Hat
uesburg wholesalers that there Is scarce
~ one of them who has not got $1,000 IN
@NVoo anu even more tied up In this way
with the railroads all the time.
One gentleman offers the EXPLANATION
tnat the railroads, like everybody else
are so busy these days that they are NOT
aple TO give proper attention to the suh
Ject OF weights, and they leave the work
10 incompetent train hands, instead Of
having II done by intelligent and canahIa
"elsiiihs clerks. Or where 1t Is done bv
competent persons. 1t is done in such q
tn
results. Nsins
1t Is possible that the subject will be
given some airing at the next meeting Of
the south Mississippi Lumbermen,s osso.
citation, which is to be held hera On
March IL and 1t has been suggested that
the raiiroad commission of the state he
appealed to for relief by issuing ordors
governing the method of taking ~
weight of loaded cars II has haen s,a
gested also that the association nigbt
employ the services of watchmen 70 H.
spect the weighing service on the var;ous
ROADS and bring In a report that would
snow up the methods that lead m So
nuch confusion and loss of time and
money for the shippers. o
Railroad Operations.
The acquisition of the Mobile. Jackson
and Kansas City railroad by the Frisco
ROCK island system combined with other
30 tNNit occurrences IN the deyelon-
hents of the railroads of Missssinni hos
turned all eyes in the direction of Scran-
ton and Pascagoula, as the next mort on
the gun TO receive attention at the hands
OF the developmental agencies. II has
oeen known for long time that tho
Frisco people were anxious to obtain
control of the Kansas City line as II
would furnish them the desired onening
over its own rails to the gulf
While the kansas Cit,- ,,,a.1
Its terminals at Mobile. it is evident that
that Observation-Disclosures bfw mfwvfwv
the Frisco has its eyes on a point further
west and that indeed one port will NOT
sufflce for the operations of the his svs-
tenn. The Kansas City road is now So
near to physical connection with PEN
saeola that the Frisco people could If
they desired to do so. complete the CON
nection in weeks time
Running northward from Pensacola 10
the short line belonging to the Denny
Lumber company. built on STANDARD
gauge with heaviest rails and supplied
with steel bridges of the best construc-
tloh' rms short line is now within seven
miles of Donovan. station on the Kan
sas CITY line, and the contract is ALREADY
awarded for the completion of the gan
When that is done the Frisco will he ahia
10 sehd It's cars to deep water at Pensa-
coia' ana the future of that port will he
assured. ''-' "4ii oe
PENSACOLA is conceded by the engineers
who have surveyed the harhor and ~,
the mariners who -