The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-08-27
GARRETT COUNTY
LUMBER INDUSTRY.
The Dubois and Bond Bros. Plant on
The Savage River-Other Plants.

The Savage Other Plants.
ct. JAY" Oakland's versatile news
paper writer, sent the following from
here to the Cumberland News on Mon
day, which appeared in Tuesday morn
ing's edition of that paper:
/ Another of Garrett county's lumber
industries is operated by Dubois and
Bond Brothers The firms plant is To-
Gated on Savage river about four miles
+ from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
with which it is connected by branch
road running from the mills to Bond
! station. This connecting line is equip
/ ped, owned and operated by Dubois and
Bond Brothers. This company is cut
ting timber on a tract of many thousand
acres, extending from the Baltimore
and Ohio across the county nearly to
Grantsville on the National road This
industry gives employment to large
number of Garrett county people, and
the monthly payroll is very large. Mr..
! n. U. Bond who is at the head of Bond
Brothers, says the demand for lumber
I is reasonably good, but prices are I'm
satisfactory. He further says that if
they sell they must sell at remunerative
prices. Under these conditions the
Dubois and Bond Brothers Co., with
5000, 900 feet of lumber stacked up in
the yard at the mills shut down during
the month Of July.
Dubois and Bond Brothers like the
Kendall Lumber Company, are looking
forward to the time now not far dis
tant, when the lumber supply has been
exhausted in Garrett county and with
this end in view have purchased 43, 900
acres of timber in the state of Oregon.
This timber produces lumber about the
same quality as the North Carolina
pine, but has no pitch. The company is
building a large mill on the Columbia
river about 20 miles below Portland.
They will build forty miles of standard
gauge railroad to haul the logs from the
forest to the mill from which point they
have two lines Of railroad to the east
and deep water outlet as well.
Bond Brothers on their on hook have
purchased ten thousand acres Of Oregon
timber on the line of the Dubois and
Bond Brothers railroad, which gives
them a through rate to all distant
points.
Bond Brothers have built up quite a
village around their plant at Bond in
. this county, and have made many
friends in Garrett county, who will miss
them when they no longer have a supply
of timber here.
A jarge portion Of the territory which
is now being cut by the Bond mill was
partly cut over by the old Lochel Lum-
Der Company many years ago. This
company had its mill on Savage river,
near Bloomington. 1t was a great in
dustrY in its day, but | have always I'M
derstood that it was not financial sue
cess and soon passed away. At the
present time there is hardly trace of
of this once busy plant remaining. The
time is not very distant when the same
will be said of the busy thriving plants
now in operation for their wheels must
cease to revolve when the timber has
been exhausted. How will Garrett
county fill the gap which will be made
when that time comes? | propose to
discuss this question later.
now cal attention to the large plant
owned and operated by Jennings Broth
ers, near Bittinger in this county. Sew
eral years ago Jennings Brothers pur-
chased what was known as the Cunning
: ham lands, and the Manaydier lands,
: plant. This firm built a railroad
down Casselman river, which gave an
outlet to the Pittsburg and Cennells-
vile road. This mill like the others is
one Of our great industries. These
several large mills distribute to our
people about fifty thousand dollars per
month, and besides this they all have
made great deal of money for the
owners.
The Meadow Mountain Lumber Com
pany with John W. Mccullough at its
head and with its plant at Friendsville
has cut nearly all the timber in that
section. Mr.. Mccullough has made a
great success of the lumber business.
For several years past he has been &C
lively engaged in buying and selling
timber and coal lands. and has cleaned
up half million dollars. He is now
manufacturing lumber in Southern Vir-
ginia, near the North Carolina line, and
is largely interested in numerous oil
wells in the Indian Territory.