Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-11-11

Not since Bogalusa was founded
La since acclaimed the greatest
nsnufacturing city in the state has il
ateraeted such widespread attention
! the announcement by W. H. Sulli.
"a to the world that the Great
Soutbern Lumber Co. had decided to
make Bogalusa a paper manufacture
inc citv and was going to inaugurate
q extensive reforestation campaign.
The announcement was made fol
living a visit of Mr.. Sullivan, &C
eompanied BY the officers, board of
directors and several department
leads Of the Great Southern, to
Urania, where an experiment had
been made in refOrestation work.
The following from the Times-Pic-
ayune Of Saturday viii be of interest
y The Enterprise readers, which tells
If their visit and and the announce
ment made:
A new Southern industry, involv-
ng the investment of millions Of
capital, the reforestation of the
states cut-over lands, and the per
petuatiOn of the lumber industry in
louisiana, was born Friday in a
quiet glade of the Urania forest,
within rifle shot Of Henry E. Hardt-
ner's home in LaSalle parish, when
men representing over a billion in
capital set their seals of approval on
Mf. Hardtner's experiments in refor-
esatiOn and announced policies of
Development that eventually are ex-
bected to dot the piney woods of
louisiana with pulp mills.
The coming Of these paper mills
offers a solution of the question of
what the state is to do with its pine
forest lands, after the ak Of the tim
herman has devastated them. It
means an influx of millions of capital
into Louisiana, the employment of
thousands Of people, the justification
Of the policy of reforestation and a
blossOming country throughout the
ats that threatened to lie fallow /
% many years.
TO this meeting in the forest from |
AZ sections of the North, East and |
south came such men as Colonel A.
G Goodyear, of the Goodyear Rub
Company and president Of the
Great Southern Lumber Company;
alter P. Cooke, F. A. Lehr, c. w.
Goodyear, Frank Goodyear, Ganson
DspeW, all Of Buffalo, N. Y; Charles
/ James Of Baltimore; Miner Gray
q Warren, Pa; Orlow HanIin and /
Horace Redfield of Smithport, Pa; |
Aalor L. s. Hart and W. W. Whitney !
q Harrisburg, Pa, and F. L. Peck
q Scranton, Pa.
These men represented the North
en- capital that viii be invested in
great Louisiana enterprise. Over
Ae telephone they advise The Times
hcayune that they are profoundIv
impressed with the wondrous posi-
alltles Of paper-making in Louisiana.
Conferring with them was a dele
anon Of business men and experts
nom Bogalusa, headed by w. Ell. Sui ,
ivan, yice-president and general
anager Of the Great Southern
llnoer Company; ]. II. Cassidy, as
ant manager; D. T. Cushing, as
ant treasurer; George Townsend,
S manager, and ]. K. Johnson, SUI +
VISOR OF the forestry department.
GERS Of the Great Northern rail- s
with the party were: w. E.
Us general manager; NJ. ]. Nc
lon' traffic manager, and r. H. 6
IMAM, assistant general manager I
NE Bogalusa Paper Company.
commissioner M. L. Alexander, of /
state Department of Conserva- 7
accompanied by state superin- 2
GENT Of forestry, of the depart c
~ r. D. Forbes, were also pres n
Ihe commissioner sounding the S
taose Of the meeting in his address a