Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-07-20
GIGANTIC LUMBER
CORPORATION WILL
Be ORGAN|zEDHERE
Reported That Company Is Being
Organized to Control Entire
Lumber Output of Mexico and
Central America.

A corporation to handle and control the
lumber output of Mexico and Central
America will be organized at Atlanta In
the immediate future. 1t will be the only
concern of its kind in America, and will
make Atlanta one of the great export
centers of this hemisphere. For. though
the actual shipping of products Will
necessarily be done from ports contiguous
to the foreign mills and forests, the en-
tire administrative side OF the business
will be operated from this city. From
this point the market of millions of feet
of timber will be directed around the
world.
This significant enterprise has come
forth and taken on definite form within
the past p hours. 1t has originated with
E . Girardot, who was citizen OF New
Orleans only a few days ago but who be-
came completely Atlantanized almost
overnight. Mr.. Girardot was guest OF
the American billposters convention
which has Just adjourned. He had made
running trips through the city twice be-
fore but this visit was his first OF any
duration. He arrived Monday, met
number of local people, took trip over
the town and then fell to thinking. The
next day he met more people and took an
other trip The lines of a popular song
kept running, galloping through his head
with the words paraphrased somewhat
after this fashion,:
20 YOU ATLANTA"
at love my New Orleans, but, 0 you
Atlanta"
And then, without further ado. Mr..
Girardot sent the following telegram TO
Mrs. Girardot:
Pack up the things and take the first
train you can to Atlanta. I'm going to
stay here for good"
That's all there was to IT," he exclaim-
ed a little later. 1--WE travelled over
considerable portion of the earth. but OF
all the towns l ever saw this Is the one
for me. 1t isn't a northern city, yet it's
different from any in the south. 1t has
go-aheadedness not to be found anywhere
else in this section. and at the same time
the people give you their hand in genuine
southern fashion"
GIRARDoT's IDEA.
Mr.. Girardot is a native of Ontario, Cam
ada He has been a resident of New Or
leans for four years and was we'll estab-
lished in business circles there. His par
ticular line of work, as he describes II.
is Ito make goods SELL" He is a business
vivifier and it was in that capacity that
he held membership among those alert,
energetic billposters.
For a number of years he has been in
terested in the lumber trade and spe-
officially in just such plan
as was mentioned above. To es-
tablish a corporation that will take
over the output of the prolific lumber
mills of Mexico and the Central Ameri-
can country and then direct this output to
opportime and profitable markets in the
United States and foreign countries-this
appealed to him as an altogether feasible
and timely undertaking. And 1t has ap-
pealed with equal force to Atlanta cap
italists and others who have been initial
ed into the plan. .-.
PROVES ATLANTA'S POWER.
Though the details of the enterprise
cannot yet be published, 1t is an assured
fact, he says. that the concern is TO be
organized 1t is rich in commercial sig
nifcance not only to Atlanta but to the
whole state of Georgia. 1t proves that in
the launching ard operation of a big pro-
ject such as this is promised to be, 1t is
no longer necessary to go to New York
or other eastern centers. Atlanta, he de-
clares, will show herself capable OF gen.
Grating an enterprise that will be of ma
tional note and international influence.
The new concern, Mr.. Girardot explains,
will in no sense smack Of trust methods,
as that term is popularity or rather I'M
popularity. understood. There will be no
attempts to bull the market, he says; no
efforts to thrust forth an unfair monop-
oily. There will be only plain, open bus
mess procedure-a plan that will work
more satisfactorily to the Mexican and
South American mill owners than their
present disjointed methods do, and that
will supply the general market more reg
ularly and dependably.
AROUSES GREAT INTEREST.
I'VE will take over the entire output of
those countries at a price to be agreed
on" he says, land then sell all around
the world"
This announcement will be particularly
interesting here and throughout the state,
for Georgia is one of the big lumber dis
tricts of the south and in Atlanta are To-
Gated the headquarters of many lumber
concerns.