The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
ton of the tariff on lumber as bar against Canadian importations.

Reconstruction of the burned plant of
 the J. J. Newman Lumber company at
 Hattiesburg is now well under way. Up
 to this time the operations have been
 limited to the building of the concrete foundations but now several railroads or the steel frame work for the superstruc-
 ture are on the ground, and the buildings
 will go up as rapidly as posslpie. The contractors Filler & Stowell or MlI"au-
 kee, are under time limit in their COIL
 tract and will not lose any time in com
 pleting their part of the job. The new
 nlant will be of about the same capacity
 as that which was burned down, put IL
 will be of more durable material, oelns
 as far as possible of steel and concrete, and the various buildings and storage sheds will be so placed as to be sa1e against fire and thus eVolNe lo"el iaeo of insurance.
 A notable change that has been made
 in the marketing arrangements or the
 big sawmills in Mississippi is the establish
 ing of sales departments in the DE iulIl-
 Der centers of the north and east IL
 is no longer customary for the safes
 manager to have his office on the grounds.
 His business is conducted at the interloi
 agency of the mill, whether at St. Louis,
 Chicago or elsewhere. The system is not
 new. but it is only recently that 1t has
 come into general vogue
 The Robinson Land and Lumber com pany has moved it's offices from Chl-
 coma and Moss Point to Mobile. Local offices will be maintained at each of the mills, but the general business VIII pc
 transacted from the Mobile offices.
 The Okotoma Sawmill company at Col lins, Miss, expect to be all ready to op- crate in a few days. For sof6e time large force of skilled workmen have been engaged upon the reconstruction or the plant which only few months ago came into the hands of the Okotoma company.
 The same company has other large mill ing interests fin this section, and all are prospering and in active operation
 The Robinson Export company IS the name of a new corporation that has been formed to handle the output of the ROD
 inson company at Chicora. The moor norators are E. W. and w. A. Robinson. The capital stock is placed at $2S,00o
 One of the largest lumber companies in the Delta will be the Stoneman Luih- Der company, which has just been re- organized at Yazoo City, MT. E. .. stone man having purchased the interests or his former partners and having admitted as his partner MT. E. J. Darlington Ihe new company has ample means, and IS now at work overhauling and rebuilding the machinery and getting timber out. The mill will commence active Work Tn
 February MT. Darlington will be the | active manager. The company has pur- l chased the right to cut the timber from | 1000 acres of land adjacent to the mill. l The Kola Lumber plant, owned by Null ! ford Parker, has been rebuilt, and Is now | operating on full time. It has daliy ca i pacity of 1000 feet. It is considered one | of the best mills on the Gulf and snip | Island road. Suit has been filed in chan 1 cery court at Gulfport in which Fred l Herrick of Wisconsin is plaintiff and the | International Harvester company or Mil waukee is defendant involving the title 10 a large tract of timberland in Harrl- ] son county. The suit arises out of an old | contract for the delivery of pole stock.