The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04

the meantime preparations for the build ing are being made here. One of the big logging machines has been ordered in from the woods to be used for the dredging of the pond here. The logging forces that have been engaged up to this time getting out down timber in the country south of here, have been or dered over in the vicinity of Sumrall to get out logs for the mill at that place. leaving the logs hereabout to be got out and cut up when the new mill Is ready to operate.
 The deal whereby the property of the Williamsburg Lumber company of Col lins, just north of here, passes into the hands of the Silverton brothers of New York, was consummated in this city this week, the papers being all signed and certified and the consideration price, to- taling nearly half million dollars, pass ing into the hands of the sellers. This closes up the business of the Williams burg company, all of its property having been disposed of, and the corporation will be wound up. The lumber plant at Col lins will be operated right along without interruption. It will be increased in such way as to enlarge the output materially.
 The building and repairing of cars has come to be quite an important industry In Hattiesburg, there being now two con- cerns that are doing that kind of work on large scale, and the stenciledA sign
 Built in Hattiesburg," or Repaired in
 Hattiesburg'' may be seen on cars in all parts of the country. The Mississippi Central shops are not only building cars for their own road and for the general custom, but they have taken large con tract for repairs for the New Orleans
 and Northeastern, and Queen and Cres- cent company. The Watkins Machine and Foundry company also has taken ex-
 tensive contracts for repair work, and
 has its yards filled with cars. in all
 stages of dilapidation, waiting for the at-
 tentions of the repair forces, and in all
 stages of rehabilitation. These rants
 are themselves consuming considerable
 quantity of car material, supplied by
 the mills in the adjacent country. It has
 been demonstrated that this kind of work
 can be done more economically in the country close to the sources of material supply, and the expectation Is that the business will develop into far greater pro- portions in the immediate future.
 w. B. Perry and A. E. Causey, two of the best known lumber jobbers on this , market, have made arrangements to go into the manufacturing business at Jack
 son, where associated with MT. R. M. Davis of Biloxi, they will establish a mill The articles of incorporation of the new company are now being perfected at Jackson. The mill will go extensively | into the re-manufacturing line of opera tions, for which purpose Jackson Is pe- l culiarly well located.
 ] In view of activities of agents of the l office of the state revenue agent, 1t is probable that some troublous times are ] ahead of those lumbermen who in times | past have purchased the timber from 1 what is known as the Sixteenth section ! lands. The revenue agent holds that the | boards of supervisors of the counties
 have never had authority to sell that | timber, and the revenue agent Is now l looking over the records of all the piney woods country with view to compell- i ing those who have taken the lands to l make restitution or at least to pay 8 ] reasonable price for the lumber they have taken The history of the business 1 makes a long story, but 1t is an affail 1 of first importance. When Mississipp | was first established as a state and the 1 wild first was surveyed for settlement l every sixteenth section of land was SC 1 apart, and under the constitution 1t wa provided that 1t could never be alienated l but must be held for the- benefit of th'
 schools. So these sixteenth sections can | not be sold
 However, the legislature has given tho county boards of supervisors the right [. lease the lands and to sell the timber or
 them. Many lumbermen in times pas