The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-02-06
TIE SEVERAL COMPANIES TO GO
TOGETHER UNDER ONE
MANAGEMENT.
9epsrted That the Company is 10
Buiiez Anot!'er Mill and 1t May be
Loeated Somewhere Within Few
Miles of This Cit,.

Sundays Savannah News contained
an interesting article relative to re-
organization Of the Hilton Dodge
Lumber company, which operates a
large mill in Brunswick, one of the
largest owned by the company.
In this connection it may be of in
terest to state that this company, it
is understood. contemplates the crec-
tion of another large mill in This i'm
mediate section and ii may be that
it will be located within a few miles
of Brunswick. Nothing detin.,a is
yet known, only that tn company has
decided to erect new mill and is now
seeking location.
The article in the Savannah paper
which will be of more than ordinary
interest in Brunswick, in part, is ss
follows:
Details of the reorganization pf
nine big lumber concerns under the
corporation of the Hilton Dodge Lum-
ber Company were announced yester-
day
iICIoOSu III Ihp dIC
the Hilton and Dodge Lumber Com
pany, the Southern Export Lumber
Company, the Sapelo Land and Lum-
ber Company, the Vale Royal Manu-
featuring Company, the Mill Haven
Company, the Savannah Mercantile
Company, the Cypress and Pine Tim
ber Company, the Westmoreland
Lumber Corporation and the Floyd's
NecllGLand and Timber Company.
Savannah will be the main heao-
quarters of the corporation, but there
will be branch offices in New York,
Philadelphia, Roston and Portland.
There will exclusive agencies for the
the sale of it's products at New Haven
and other places besides sales-agen-
cies at all principal American ports
and interior points. III addition the
company is to be well represented
abroad and will will have an active
business through its agencies at
Hamburg, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Ant
werp and Liverpool.
Holdings cf the Company.
Among the officers and directors OF
the corporation are some Of the
wealthiest and best known lumber
men in the country. The total paid
up capital. common and preferred
stock, is $7,378,000. The land ana
timber holdings of the Hilton Dodge
Lumber Company consists of 552,-
3SS acres in Georgia and South Caro-
lima, and this land has been estimated
by experienced cruisers to contain
between 3,500,000, 900 and 1000, ,OOO,-
coo feet of high class merchantable
timber, the greater part of which is
cypress, long and short leaf yellow
pine.
Seven modern saw mill plants, To-
Gated as follows, are to be operated
by the concern: Wiggiss, S. c., two
at Savannah; Belfast, Ga, Darien, Ga.
Brunswick, Satilla Bluff, Ga. These
mills have an actual capacity of $780,
100000 feet, over % per cent. or we
cut being cypress.
The HiltOnDOdge Lumber Company
was incorporated in Chatham county
last, fan, as successor to the Hilton
and dodge Lumber Company. which.
with its predecessors, has been en-
ga9ed in the manufacture of lumber
in Georgia since the Civil War, An
nouncement of the consolidation was
made in the Morning News when the
petition for incorporation was filed.
Officers of the Concern.
The officers of the Hilton Dodge
Lumber Company are:
President-R. II. Knox.
First Vice PRESIDENT. r. Paschal.
Second Vice President--James l..
Foster.
Treasurer-Thomas Hilton.
Secretary-W. f Kinsey.
The board of directors are: Joseph
Hilton Of New York, r. II. Knox of
Savannah, Thomas Hilton Of Savan-
nah, James L. Foster of Savannah, J.
r. Paschall of Richmond, Thomas
Gresham of Richmond, W. II. Sawyer
Of Worcester, w. II. Sawyer, Jr., of
Worcester, +. r. Barns of Chicago.
Joseph Hilton has ben in the lum-
Der business since 1853, having been
admitted partnership in the firm Of
Thomas Hilton ana Sons in 1865. In
1870 Joseph. Hilton, with James L.
Foster, who has since been associated
with him in the business, and Thomas
Hilton, brother Of Joseph Hilton, en-