St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1920-07-17
A Tentative Understanding
With Mr.. Sullivan for
Mutual Cooperation.
BOGALUSA'S BIG
PAPER INDUSTRY
Bogalusa's Hospitality Is
Equal To It's Big Busi-
ness Success.

e. G. Davis, w. E. Morr;ss, Eugene
Arnett, c. A. Everitt, J. w. Herr
mann, Nj. c. Huckaby, the drainage
committee of st. Tammany parish,
working in harmony with the Parish
Progressive League and various AS
sociations of Commerce of St. Tam
many parish, visited Bogalusa Fri
day, July 9th, and had a two hours
conference with w. H. Sullivan OF
the Great Southern Lumber Co. A
tentative understanding was reached
whereby, it is believed, the Great
Southern will cooperate with the St.
Tammany Parish Progressive League
in the great undertaking of building
up the agricultural and industrial
opportunities of ST. Tammany and
increasing the productiveness of its
soil, and in return every effort Is to
be put forth to secure soil survey
at the earliest possible moment. J.
B. Cassidy and D. T. Gushing were
also present at the conference.
The committee were treated with
royal hospitality, such as Bogalusa
knows how to give. Luncheon was
served at the Pine Tree Inn and the
party was taken through the Country
Club and the Bogalusa Paper Mill,
the cost of construction of which was
two million dollars before the war
and which could not be reproduced
for four million now. 1t now has a
capacity of 105 tons daily and with
daily. Prico of product is $3.50 per
- 1t .ol,,
children of St.. Louis made $50,00O
annually by collecting waste paper.
There is an opportunity for the rails
ing of considerable sum If a like
undertaking was entered into here.
The great future of this mill is in
the manufacture of paper boxes and
containers. The specially long and
strong fiber of the yellow pine makes
it an ideal product for manufacture.
For this reason Bogalusa is strongly
interested in reforestat!on Of all
available land within the limits Of
the yellow pine belt. But from Lake
Pontcnartrain north to yellow pine
lim9t the condition is favorable to
truck and fruit growing, with excel
lent climatic conditions, artesial
water supply and opportunities for
transportation.
St. Tammany parish needs the
financial and moral support of cor
porations, and in giving that sup
port corporations get that warm
place in the hearts of the people
that makes sympathetic public and
brings the cooperative spirit that is
necessary always for the accomplish
ment of great things, industrial and
moral. With proper utilization OF
available hydro-electric power the
Bogalusa paper industry could sup
port, within nineteen years, popu-
lation of one hundred thousand peo-
pie. An Industrial center Of this
kind would be wonderful thing for.
st. Tammany parish, and it would
be a great thing for Bogalusa to be
surrounded by a prosperous agricul-
tural district with large trucking in
terests feeding railroads, opening tho
portunities to laborers and bringing
them near the big industries of Boga-
lusa to meet their demanda as well
as our own. Bogalusa must neces-
sarily be interested in the prosperity
Ol OL- 1dmHduy PARISH, duu IL 10 d
natural conclusion that We will
always find her hand outstretched to
help along.
The drainage of st. Tammany par
ish, now two weeks in advance in
earliness of fruit, will bring its fruit
into the market four weeks earlier
than other sections.
AS a consequence of the confer
ence, President Goodyear of the
Great Northern will visit the parish
within the month.