The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-21
CONSTRUCTED BY The
NEWMAN LUMBER CU.
Nearing Completion and Soon to Be
in Full Operation and Alive With
an Army of Men and Busy Machn-
cry Turning out Finished Products

Citizens OF HattleSDurS WHO nave
had the opportunity only of viewing
from a distance the progress OF the
work being done on the great mand-
featuring plant of the J. j. Newman
Lumber company can have but scant
idea of the extent and scope of the
construction already completed and
of-the number of men employed day
after day at the plant just north OF
Hattiesburg on the Leaf river.
In order to acquire something more
than a superficial knowledge OF the
facts would require more time than
it takes to go over the some 40 acres
of ground and through the great build
ings in which the output Of the saw
mill is to find its way in various forms
of manufacture.
Between four and five o'clock yes
terday afternoon through the courtesy
of one of the office force at the COM
pany's office building outside OF the
grounds q representative of the News
was given directions how to find AS
sistant General Manager w. j. Hey
men somewhere in or around the man.
ufacturing plant. Through these kind
ly directions Mr.. Heyman was found
and had. began the rounds when bust
, ness called him elsewhere and the
enduring newspaper man was placed
in charge of Constructing Engineer
f. NJ. Hill for j. j. Newman company
and the journey over the big plant was
begun.
The starting was at the beginning
where the logs from the forests are
INST placed. This was represci
a log ramp 500 feet long running along
the boom where the logs are to be
gatbered by unloading them into a
nond of water. This log ramp which,
in common parlance is in the shape
of n trestle with an incline of heavy
timbers along it's side next to the
boom. or water pond. The length oil
the ramp will hold twenty loaded log
ring cars. forty of which make tram
load and come from the pine forests
to the boom over the tracks OF the
,It,sissippi Central railroad. Witt
~. aalt of the 40 cars sidtracked the
o.ner half are run up on the raml
and quickly loaded from the cars down
t.. incline into the water. The empty
GINS are tron to be pulled off and the
Same process gone through with the
other .venty. The entire train is ther
made Up and the logging locomotive
starts back on its trip to the tall tim
Ders.
The method used here in handling
of the logs is typical Of what is done
in the handling of the product OF The
mill from the boom to the finishing
sheds in thee south and north yard
wherever steam power can be use
effectively it is used and the transfer
inc of the product by hand is reduce
to a minimum
The neNs process in the manufac'
aug course is the reoval of tn
losyrom the boom into the mill. Thi
is to be done by a chain arrangement
which draws the log up long stee
incline in the shape of chute direc
lytto the carriage which on narro'
railway conveys the log to the saw
The saws 70 be used in ripping tn
logs into ds red shapes are to be ban
. saws u Nh Are to run on the circun
- ference>f large wheels one on eac
ide of the saw mill proper. Jus
how these band saws will operate wi
have to be seen by the uninitiated
be appreciated. The saws have ne
Eyet been placed for opration. A fair
lea of Fyhat they will do in eatin
Gp g. logs as they are fed by tn