Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-07-01
It's Growth Has i een Phenomenal And The Prediction
Is Made THAT 1t will BE Manufacturing '"S
With A Population OF $4,000 In Few Years

nOGALUSA - The 1aglc Clty -
D usual The prosAss of Bosalus
nominal and today is Il cosnlzed as
Progress, Enthusiasm 4 nd Hustle is
citizens. Growing frof} a dense pine
eight years is the recon Of Bosalusa,
and at times when con- lltlons were I
the Worlds Largest Lumber MILL the
dollar paper mill, a large creosotlns
industries, Boealusa lats claim to ma
of any city its size in the country
be called a city Of magnificent dlstal
sections: Columbia Street, Rlchara
Boealusa, Avenue B. a9ld North boes
dental sections to Boea lusa and the (
it is true, that in 10 years from tooa'
manufacturing centers)in the south
The marvellous wo|k that has
been done in this conn unitv, in the
building Of the splendid city Of b.
ealusa, in the past nire years, has
been due, to a large extent, to the
manv stockholders i the Great
Southern Lumber Co. ind the N O.
G.N.R. R. Co., who unfortunately
do not live in the city and there
fore are deprived Of the many prlvl'
letes that we as citizens Of the city
enjoy. To these peoae scattered
all over the United St ties and VINO
by their faith in the md p at head OF
the Great Southern Luz hber Co., and
the N. 0, G. Mr.. R. TO-, invested
their money in these p inc forests OF
Louisiana and who edve directions
that the people who (, 'erated their
plant should be Surro| nded by all
the privileges that anyone living
in a modern city enjoy, and who
during all the depressing times
that we have gone through in the
last few years had so }1uch faith in
the ultimate outcomepf the enter
prise that they insist d on its con-
tinued operation eyen) Though sacri-
fcine their own ilt erests and
sacrificing their tim Ter in order
that the people who a Z interested
as employees might nave steady
employment and might not suffer
the hardShips that edPle living IN
other Southern lumbf commune
ties have had to bear, to these
stockholders we owe great depth OF
gratitude which the whole citizen
ship of the city Of Boealusa will very
gladly repay to the 'ery best OF
their ability during (the coming
years when it is hoped that general
business conditions jill be such
that they will reap a proper return
for their faith in Louis ana.
On September IA, 9e5, a party
Of Great Southern Lumber Com
pany officials left Cosinston, La'
with view of locating a site Tor a
town somewhere between Sllde'l
and Jackson, where Ia large saw
mill would be erected In the party
we're: F. H. Goodyear president OF
the Great Southern Lumber Com
pany; Mr.. G. W. Goodyear, vice
president; Mr.. Chas. II James, vice.
president; Mr.. W. H. s. Ilivan' gene
raj manager; Mr.. F.. il. Coleman,
engineer; Mr.. N. G. Pe4rsall, general
manager of the N. G G. N. R. r.
The party arrived whfre the town
Of Boaal,,sa is now located on the
morning of Septemberll5, 1906 and
found it a very attractive place for
the location of a townlbut we're not
satisfied on account of its being
nearer to Slidell that it was to
Jackson. 1t was theh decided by
the party to find a plaFe which was
suitable about 20 hiles farther
north. They found 4 place called
Ten Mile, about Is niiles north Of
Boealusa, but owing 70 the Difficult
ties in purchasing th% land at thai
place they decided - locate the