Finkbine-Guild Lumber Co. Will Operate Two Mississippi Mills on California Redwood Timber

They are all wrong, when they say, "there is nothing new under the sun."

Something most remarkably and wonderfully new is about to be done in the lumber manufacturing business by th'e Finkbine-Guild Lumber Company of -Mississippi.

As recently announced, this concern recently closed a deal whereby they purchased a huge stand of fine Redwood timber in Mendocino County, California. But they are not to cut and manufacture this timber in the ordinary way' Far frorh it. As a matter of fact, the whole State of California is sitting up and talking about their plans.

What they ARE going to do is to build a railroad through

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this timber so that they may bring it to tidewater on the Pacific at Rockport, Calif. Here they will build a sawmill in which they will square their Redwood logs, and then they will load the squared timbers on vessels and transport it to the Mississippi Coast. rvhere it will be unloaded and shipped by rail a short distance inland to Wiggins and Delo, Miss., where they have for many years operated sawmill plants cutting Southern Pine.

Their timber at these points is practically exhausted, and they will keep these mills in operation for a great many years to come, cutting Redwood. Redwood mills in Mississippi are undoubtedly the latest things in lumber. This firm likewise has a big plant at Jackson, Miss., which is still supplied with Southern Pine stumpage.

They will build wharves at Rockport for handling their loading to vessels there, and they will use six ships of their own ownership in transporting the squared timbers to Mississippi. They report that they are all ready for a plentiful supply of return cargo for these vessels, so that they rvill travel loaded both ways.

It is reported that they have already shipped a lot of Redwood timbers to their Mississippi mills and manufactured them there, and were highly pleased with the results. They will have milling-in-transit rates on their timbers from the Mississippi docks to and through their mills, and that this will give them short rates on high grade Redwood-to all the Eastern markets, and a good local consumption for their lorv grades that will net them better than they could get for low grade Redwood if they manufactured it in California.

It will require about a year to make their plans complete in the West, and get their railroad, mill and docks going.

From Northwest

H. S. Morton, Hill and Morton, Inc., well known Bay District wholesalers with offices in San Francisco and C)akland, has returned from a two weeks' busihess trip to the Northwest where he was calling on the mills. His trip carried him through the lumber manufacturing sections of Washington and Oregon.

E. C. MILLER IS HOME AGAIN

E. C. Miller, president of the E. C. Miller Cedar Lumber (iompany, formlrly known as the Grays'Harbor Shingle Company, has just completed a 60 days' trip through the Ifast and Middle West. He found prospects good for fall business in the majority of districts visited.