The Orange Leader, Citizen-Record Consolidated (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 18, 1904 Page: 1 of 10
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in the long leaf Yellow I>ine forests of Polk Oonnty.
The equipment ia a first-class Logging railroad, a.
modern Saw MUI, planing Mill and superior Dry
Kiln* The tacllitiea for anppljlng rough arid dressed
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WITH THE LUMBERMEN
The Lumber Reporter's Peregrinations •
Over the Sawdust Roads.
BY........... ..........ARTHUR L, FORD.
The Orange Lumber company has a
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why, after all these years of talking and preaching about c
water the government has never been induced to spend a
thousand dollars in deepening the bar at tbia particular point.
Bight to ten feet of water on the bar at the mouth of the Sabine
river is of little advantage to navigation when soundings
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large,terce of men íat
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tions of all kittds. sunken logs, overhanging brandes, etc.,' irom
the mouths of the Anacoco and other streams tributary to the
Sabine riverj through which logs are run for the mills at- this
place. With their private means this company has accomplished
more good along this line and expended more money in the pagt
three.years than the United States government has done alto-
gether. In 1896 and again in 1898 the government expended
appropriations on the work of clearing the Sabine river , of
obstructions, or, at least, the money was Supposed to have been
spent for that. However, by the time the contractors and- engi-
neers had gotton ready for the work half of the appropriation
was expended and the major portion of the remaining half was
spent in getting,to the work and in getting away again. A few
sunken logs were hoisted trom the river bed and laid along side
the bank, only to roll into the river again'on. the first rise and
again sink to the bottom, a, few overhanging branches were
cut and piled along the bank, but so far as accomplishing any
actual good it was not done. In the hands oí a well directed
crew the money thus expended could have, accomplished a
wonderful amount of good work but. in the hands of govern-
ment favorites, it was worse than wasted. The work inaugu-
rated by the Orange dumber company will result in a big say-
ing to timbermen in running their timber to the mills at Orange.
Never is the great need of deep water improvement in
Sabine lake so forcibly impressed upon the minds of mill men as.
in the winter time when prevailing north winds push the water
out of the lake and make it almost impdssible for loaded
barges to pass Blue Buck point, and it is hard to understand
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develop only four to four and a half feet on Blue Buck, a point
that must be passed in order for vessels to, reach Sabine Pasé.
The Lutcher & Moore Lumber company started the barges
Mexico and Perrv down to Sabine Pass a week ago drawing five
ánd a half feet of water. They grounded on Blue Buck bar and
have swung there every sinfee, defying all efforts of tug boats to
pull them off. The steamship Galveston, for whom their cargoes
were intended, was forced to sail for Mexico a half million feet
short of a full cargo and the steamship Telefon also passed up
a trip trom Sabine Pass to Mexico for the same reason/ The
presence of this bar represents a direct -financial loss to the -
lumber interests of Seutheast Texas and it would seem that
with proper efforts the government .might be induced to expend
a few thousand dollars there to advantage.
The most important thing that bai transpired in local lum-
ber circles this week is the placing With the Lutcher & Moore
Lumber company of an order for the material to be used in thee
construction of a big dry dock for New Orleans, mention ot which
was made in this column last week. In addition to buying the
material here the contractor also closed a deal to construct the
big dock at Orange and work will begin on same about Decern
ber 15. The bill of lumber will amount to about one and a half
million feet, and among the timbers required for constructing
the ways are several pieces 16x16 sixty feet long and others
14x14, fifty-one-and fifty-seven teet long. One mill here has
sticks in the booms that will cut the 16xl5-60b, two others can
süpplv the necessary timber on short notice, ^nd this fact alone
• gave Órangé a big advantage in landing the order, as these
Specifications arejquite difficult and require the choicest timber.
Sam T. Swinford, ot the S. T. Swinford Lumber company,
of Houston, visited Orange Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week, and was theguést of his brother, Hon. Jerome Swindford.
Mr. Swinford reports a brisk demand tor lumber, prices stiff
and business good. He has recently made a tour of mills up In
the woods and finds that they are no better off as regards stocks
on hands than the mills in th£ towns nearer the coast. He
states that the greatest trouble he is having now' is in securing
the lumber with which to fill the orders that he cán get. Like
others, his view of the situation is that it is no longer so much
a question of price as it is of getting delivery within the time
Wanted. Mr. Swinford returned to his headquarters tn Hous-
ton Wednesday.
Sam A. McNeelev, superintendent ot the hewn tie and. .pi
ing department of the Kirby Lumber company, was an Orang
visitor yesterday, spending the afternoon in the city, Mr. M
Neeley reports things moving along smoothly in,bis departmei
and states that the shipment of ties up to date this month ha1
been Considerably above the average. When here yesterday he
had just come down from the woods where he had been looking
after the shipment of a lot of hewn piling to the creosote works
at Beaumont, where the piling were to be treated before being
shipped to their destination.
The present long dry season has resulted in the accumula-
tion of an'immense amount of timber along the headwaters of
the Sabine. Parties coming, down from the upper river this
week estimate that no less than 60,000,000 feet of logs are now
lying in the creeks and small streams tributary to the Sabine
ready to float out on the first water, while in the river itself
there ia at least 10,500,000 feet more oí timber. All of this will
come to Orange on the first big" Water and will replenish storage
rooms that are now beginning to show the effect of -the drouth.
Jesse IL Jones, president of the' M. T. Jones Lumber com-
pany, aid one of the principal Owners of the Orange Lumber
company,, passed through Orange on the; 14th Inst., en route to.
Houston on his return from a summer vacation spent in tourit
Europe. He visited ail of the principal cities in Europe at
had a most interesting and entertaining trip.
. W. W. Reid, one of the directors of the Gibson Cypress Lv
ber company, of Gibson, La., spent a couple Qot days at thi
place this week looking after matters connected with ,th
cypress mill.
Vaughn Seastrunk, the efficient invoice clerk in the i
the Orange Lumber company, left first of the week tor St. 1
where he will spend several days taking in the World's
Robert Morgab, Jr., the hustling exporter, spent a di
Port Arthur this week looking after the dispatch ot an it
ant shipment of pitch pine td a European port:
W. E.'Fall, a weli known lumber dealer of Houston,
Orange for a day this week conferring with the onanufa
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Harris, J. L. & Ford, Arthur L. The Orange Leader, Citizen-Record Consolidated (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 18, 1904, newspaper, November 18, 1904; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183212/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.