Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-01-20

couLu make a good living anywhere
and who remain here because they
find it good place to live in, where
they can bring up their children in {
Notwithstanding environment, sur
rounded by good people in a whole
some Christian atmoSphere-fol
there are more churches than movie
theaters in Bogalusa.
Stress has been laid on the city Of
Bogalusa because it is the chief glory
Of the Great Southern Lumber Com,
pany. Many enterprises make as
much money as this one, and many
of them have expended as much in
welfare" work, but few can point
to an achievement as unique as this,
where civic spirit has been pro-
NOTED to where private initiative has
been given actual opportunity to de-
velop. The betterments in this ideal
little city have been the outgrowth of
cooperation among the citizens. It
IS free community, working out its
own destinies, and not dependent on
| the Iargess of a corporation. To Gre
ate such city is something far sur
| passing conventional welfare work.
/ Credit for having conceived the plan
| of converting a lumber camp into a
seEf-governing city is due to Col. w.
H. Sullivan, it's designer and builder.
and to the Observation-Disclosures of F.
h. and c. W. Goodyear, the found
ers, who approved and aided with
wise counsel and generosity in the
initial expenditures by the company
to make the idea effective.
Tho fam,
that we see today has been built was
the Great Southern Lumber Com
pany, that bought a great area Of
virgin pine land in Louisiana and
Mississippi in 1905. 1t is a curious
circumstance that the sawmill design
was drawn before the site was Sc
lected. In a flat country, it was not
necessary to consider the lay of the
land, for it all lay alike. This mill
was designed to cut 100000 feet
of lumber daily. 1t has often ex-
ceeded that figure. Even today, with
a depressed market, it is cutting over
100000 feet per diem. Thus it
stands out as the largest sawmill in
the world. The site chosen was near
the mouth of the creek known as
Bogue Lusa, one and a half miles
from Pearl River.
The New Orleans Great Northern
Railroad Company was organized as
an adjunct to the enterprise. This !
was not logging road, but a we'll |
equipped interstate line, extending |
from Slidell, La, to Jackson, Miss. |
From Slidell the Great Northern |
trains use the Southern Railway |
tracks into New Orleans. The cap
ital invested in this road is $780,
600. The capital stock of the Great |
Southern Lumber Company is S1O,-
100000. The logging roads in the
Louisiana tract for bringing logs to
the mill belong to the lumber COM
pany, but the logs from the Missis-
sippi forests owned by the Great
Southern are delivered to the New
Orleans Great Northern Railway for
transportation to Bogalusa. In the
Louisiana area of forest land the
now operates IS miles Of
railroad, and it normally lays and
takes up one mile of logging road
daily. A standard all-steel type of
flat cars, made by the American Car
& Foundry Co. of St. Louis, No, are
employed. There are 10 Shay-type
locomotives in the logging road
equipment, built by the Lima Ma
chine Co. of Lima, o. These are
provided with adequate spark arrest
7rs. Great care is exercised to pre-
vent forest fires. To supply the mill,
so acres of timber land are cut daily.
The average number of logs hauled
% the mill each day amounts to 1900.
Aside from a few novel features,
he main interest in the sawmill plant
S its magniture. A mill that actually
Jaws more than a million feet Of
lumber. daily is sui generis. It
preads over 100 acres of ground, in
.luding the stock yards. In 1917 it
shipped 9148 cars of lumber, 329
airs of laths and 20 cars of shingles,
icing a daily average of 80 cars. The
and better grades shipped in that
ear amounted to 1881 per cent of I
he total sales. In this were included s
imbers to the extent of 20 per cent. $
or transporting lumber in the plant t
here is a system of so miles of tram I
rack, in addition to which the trucks g
f lumber to be delivered to the dry 1
ng yards are picked up and con- '
eyed by monorail system with an t
lectric carriage, made by the Pawl- S
lg & Harnishfeger Company of Mil t
raukee, Wis, taking a load of TO- 4
90 pounds. In the planning mill are /
8 machines and five resaw ma b
hines. A box factory adjacent to /
he planning mill, utilizing exclusively k
7aste material, turns out so car
dads of shocks per month. This fac
Dry is equipped with two resaws, +
lree planners, six cutoff saws, eight t
ipsaws, one Ferris-wheel trimmer, +
wO mailing machines, two splitting t
lachines and one variety saw. The o
18th, shingle and stave mills are OPP
rated on waste material also. In o
Oite of this extensive utilization of r
'aste in making minor products, the t
My fuel employed for generating Il
over at the plant comes from mill a
efuse. Considering that waste is t
sed in the manufacture of paper Is
ulp boxes, lath, shingles, slaves r
nd for developing power, it will be o
pparent that the waste burner is not a
very active part of the Great South t.
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