The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-01-15
HAS LEARNED TO
THINK IN MILLIONS
Trade Paper Comments on
Martin A. Browns
Activities
WHOLE TOWNSHIP
BOUGHT RECENTLY
Latest Deal Was to Acquire 10000
Acre Tract in Vermont - Pulpwood
Enough to Last Five Years - May
Manufacture Hardwood.

Ever since Martin a. Brown came to
Boston as the treasurer and business
manager of the Woodstock Lumber
company, says a lumber trade paper
in its current issue, concerning a we'll
known Wilmington and Boston man, he
has furnished other members of the
trade with topics for conversation and
food for thought. He has always been
doing things Of an unusual and even
startling nature, but always in a quiet
wav insofar as he himself was con-
eerned, that is he let others do the
talking about them. He began by pur-
chasing the entire output Of different
mills While other people were weigh
| ing the pros and cons of such a step
ho acted. often to the dismay OF his
conservative competitors who resented
| his do it now policy
! After a time people became used TO
his ways about the mills and began to
wonder what he would do next He did
not leave them long in doubt. a year
/ or two acc he sprung his great surprise
i lv purchasing as the agent of his corn.
+ Iauv h. Who'll town of Lincoln, N
Guiding the il b,r and the Hcury Lufn.
t5r rlants. the churc hos, echoolhouscs
5a.l llioge and cverything else. Their
h erected a huge sawn III on the Beebt
river connecting il with a pulp mill b>
railroad The purchase money in this
deal ran into the millions.
Mr.. Brown : latest deal in The Wood
stock interests has just been com
pleted He has this week bought 40,
600 acres of timberland III the state o
Vermont embracing large sections o
the towns of Wilmington, Searsburg
Woodford Somerset Stratton. Sunder
land and Dover. His purchase include
a sawmill, a sulphite pulp mill, sever
camps. 81 tenement houses, railroa,
Is miles in length. 3 locomotives, 3
logging trucks, Is flat cars. several bo.
cars and o. horses. The money in
volved several hundred thousand dol
lars, but this doesn t mean much t
Mr. Brown who has learned 10 thin
in millions.
Speaking of this latest deal, Nj
Brown said: ''Thc pulp mill has n ca
pacity of 80 to 40 tons of sulphite
day. This is operated by electric powe
which is developed at that poin
: There is probably pulpwood enough Q
this tract To operate the pulp mill foi
at least, FIVE years Whether the mi
! will be operated after that time will d,
pend on whether we secure more STUMP
, age. There is a very large quantity G
hardwood left on the territory and
is quite probable we shall manufactur
: hardwood at the sawmll as it is a we
equipped mill for manufacturing hare
| wood and the fact that the railroad
;. | which is operated in connection Wit
| the property, extends back into Il
= property for Is miles would enable |
. | to manufacture the hardwood at q re;
= sonable cost The Deerteld river while
flows through the larger portion OF tn
/, property is very valuable as a watt
]. power proposition. Probably furth'
developments will be made along the!
, lines
- At the present time there are abol
: $50 men in the woods and $50 at Il
:. mill. There will be no immedia
). change in the management. Mr.. Albe
/; Buell. is the local manager.
n. The condition of the spruce lumb
/; market at present is such that mel
/. bers of the trade generally find qui
/; enough to do in attending to it, b
i, Mr. Brown is q glutton for the sort
lr work that other men cannot do. One
n. his lieutenants said to the writer wee
al before this deal: 1.-The bigger and mo
difficult the undertaking, the more an
ious Mr.. Brown is to tackle it.
Brown is still young man and ev
his critics are compelled to admit tn
he has already accomplished wonde
What he will do, time viii show.