Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1911-03-02
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composed of the members of the old
firm of Barclay Brothers, of Sinnama-
honing. and the III. T. Quinn Co, of
Olean, N. Y, carries the names of be-
tween 300 and 400 men on its pay-rolls;
while the stave and heading factory
operator by the Sugar Trust gives en-
ployment to about $50 men. An i'm.
mense quantity of their product is pill
ed under sheds ready to use-enough
it seems to US to make barrels for all
the sugar in the country-whether it is
weighed correctly or not. Besides the
IT'S or more plain but comfortable
dwelling houses built by the Laquin
Lumber Co. and the Stave Co., to ac-
commod ate the employ ees and their
families, there are two prosperous
churches in town. Methodist and
Baptist; also an up-to-date fourishing
graded school, kept in two seperate
buildings, with about two hundred pu-
pills in attendance.
Employees ofthe company are not
obliged to move out of the place to
educate their children. And that
me ans a whole lot whom you come to
think it over. Yes, there is a hotel
there, hotel that has license to sell
liquor, but one would hardly think
so, 80 far as the usual symptoms are
concerned; everything is so orderly
o,nl int onNn.,1 fharn FNha
too busy to engage in highballs and
revelry. AT any rate, that was the
case when the writer was there the
other day. Everybody seems to be
doing something or other and of course
everybody is contented. Contentment
and work go together, anyhow. The
able bodied man or woman who is not
obliged to work for living misses one
of life's crowning joys, although they
may not think so. Adam and Eve, of
co urse, thought it was pretty tough to
be kicked out of the Garden of Eden.
But probably the best thing that ever
happened to the old folks and their
progeny (of which we are part, al
though somewhat distantly connected)
was when the edict went out that they
must earn their own bread and but
ter-and clothes, too, for that matter,
when fig leaves got out of fashion.
An important feature of Laquin is
the large well-stocked company store,
which does a thriving business and
under the competent management of
Mr.. E. Q. Council with half a dozen
clerks to help him, is great conven-
ience to the people in the place, and,
of course, a source of profit to the'com-
pany.
Mr.. w. l.. Barclay, member of the
Laquin Lumber Company, is the effici-
ent general superintendent ofall the
industries mentioned except the stave
mill. Mr.. A. Taylor is snperinten-
dent of the stave mill.
Whenever there is anything doing
within reach that is worth while Tio-
ga county men are liable to be mixed
up in it. Several of them have found
their way to Laquin. F. B. Tremain,
assistant superintendent; F. L. Beauge,
the general bookkeeper; E. G. Smith,
manager of the chemical department,
and Mark and William Kennedy, hold
ing responsible positions in the saw
mill, are Tioga county men, we'll
known to many readers of the Agita-
tor, who are important spokes in the
business wheel that goes round every
week day in the year in that neck of
the woods Wellsboro Agitator.
The PRESS readers will read with in
forest the above article, very cleverly
framed for the Wellsboro Agitator
This, one of the most extensive lum-
bering operations in the state, is finan-
ced by Cameron county men-Barclay
Brothers and T. HI. Quinn & Co., now
engaged in the same business on
Straight Greek. The general manager
Mr.. Watson L. Barclay is product of
Cameron county and an excellent busi-
ness man. Many of the employees,
Messrs. VIM. Beattie, Jos. T. Drum and
other boys from " Little Cameron" are
located at Laquin. AS our county
continues to grow in population, more
Industries are established, we expect to
see all of our "boys" come home again