The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-12-03
A BIG CONCERN.
Great Texas Yard Claimed to BE !
Largest in State. !

concern with thirty-odd yards scat
tered over South Texas, claim that
their big yard near the /. d q. y. de-
pot in Houston is today the biggest
covered lumber yard in the entire
southwest, and that from every
standpoint that goes to make good
lumber yard, it stands at the very
head of the class. During the past
wear some wonderful improvements
| have been made at this yard. At the
present time it covers an entire city
block OF this great tract of valuable
| land everything is covered with the
! Exception of about fifty feet of one
end of the block, and plans have al
ready been drawn for covering this
with another enormous she'd
| The present yards consists of three
double sheds, each 200 feet long, or
six 20o-foot lumber cribs. These
sheds are most substantially built,
land are so arranged that the caves
do not lap each other, but leave
narrow space to permit the air to cir
culate. 1t is claimed that this meth
| cd is far superior to that of having
the roofs lap, as there is plenty of
iroom under the caves on each side
for the teams and wagons to stand
out of the reach of the rain, and still
allows the rain to fall in the middle
! of the dividing roadway. Each of the
caves is equipped with an unusually
heavy sheet-iron gutter, that carries
IAN the rain from the roof down into
drainage basins at the ends of the
lyard, and there is no dripping of
Train from the roof.
The cribs are excellently subdivid-
lof the cribs made by the manage
ment of the yard, that they claim
there is no single item of any kind
THAT cannot be secured in a moments
time. This is done by never allowing
two lengths of any one item to be
ipied together. Different lengths,
widths. and grades are all segregated
so that no lumber ever has to be
moved TO get at anything. For hand
I ling the upper tiers of stock, there
is a strong plank scaffolding running
ialong the front of each side of the
sheds, ten feet from the ground, so
that the upper tiers can be handled
as easily as the lower.
Everything under the sun in the
iline OF lumber can be bought at this
iyard. They carry every sort of floor
ling imaginable from No. to edge
lgrain yellow pine, and from quarter
sawed oak, of a variety of thickness
Ises, to the finest northern hard ma
iple flooring, also in an assortment
iof thicknesses. The high grade hard
wood flooring is not only under Gov
er, but is locked away in dry cribs,
where there is no chance of il deter
Iiorating in quality while lying in the
ished
Shingles of all kinds, both red
wood, cedar and cypress, are found
in abundance under these sheds, col
umns from the Pacific coast and
from the Louisiana cypress mills,
patent fencing, patent shingles pat
ent lath, patent roofing, everything
in its place, and a place for every
thing. The yard is pattern of neat
ness The ends of every pile are eX-
lactiy even, the roadways are level
land dry. no refuse is allowed around
THE corners that would attract fire
or make the yard unsightly.
Everything that there could posi-
bly, be a demand for is kept in stock,
land well kept. There is now under
cover in this yard more than o.
io00,0 900 feet of lumber, as we'll as a
big assortment of the other articles
: mentioned in addition to a big shed
full of sash, doors, mill work, mold
ings, from the bottom grade to the
top, and from the poorest to the best
} a marvellous assortment.
The barn in which the company
: keep their stock is another model.
They claim that there is not another
like it in Texas. The floor of the barn
, lis concrete. The stalls are floored
with plank over the concrete, but
back OF the stalls there is a depres-
sion, and the sweepings of the barn
go there Then flood of water runs
= Through and cleans the barn thor
g. ioughly, and scrubs it at the same
time There is no odor about the
barn, and the twenty draft animals
that live in it live as clearly as sc
imany well kept humans.
The Manager.
The manager of this big and we'll
kept establishment is one of the
most competent retail lumbermen il
Texas, Mr.. A. d. Timmons. He was
born III the retail lumber business al