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NEW LUMBER COMPANYCharleston to Have a Large LumberPlant Located there in Addition toThose Now in Operation.Charleston, S. C., June, 12Editor of the Carolina Field, Sir:President A. C. Tuxbury and Vice-President F. G. Davies, of the TuxburyLumber company have been in Charleston for some days, arranging for theestablishment of their big mill on theAshley river, near Charleston.The deeds for timber contracts,rights etc., were filed a few days agoat the office of the register of conveyance, for the nominal sum of $5, but the value is said to be much above$200,000, aggregating more than 50,-000 acres of the choicest timber landsin this section of the country. The order for the machinery and equipment of the mills is now being placed and itis said that the cost of the machinery will if coif frknt Till A total of $200,000.The plant will include two band mills, dry kilns, planing mill, sheds, logging train and docks, being situated justabove the North State lupiber mills, on a tract of about forty acres. The millsViQ\rr o PQnacitV rtf hptWfifill 80.000000 feet of lumber a day, and nont will hc^ triven to 500 men.Arrangements are now making forthe temporary quarters of the laborersand other employers who will work on the construction of this big plant, whileestimates are being gotten from thecontractors and mill supplies people forthe erection of the plant. It is proposed to start the actual constructionof the plant very shortly and to have itin full operation by January 1, 1906.The office of the company has beenopened on Broad street and all details are being carefully looked after andprovided for.The officers of the company arePresident, A. C. Tuxbury, Vice. President, F. G. Davies, Treasurer, .Charles Hill, Secretary, J. T. Fleetwood. They are experienced lumber people and officers of the ^corporation, chartered Q nnnital stock of $300,000. will alllive in Charleston, bringing theirfamilies with them. Messrs. Tuxburya id Davies come to Charleston frcmNew York, where they have also largelumber interests and Mr. Fleetwocdhos extensive interests in North Carolina.Vice-President Davies talked mostenthusiastically to the representativeof The Carolina Field of the prospectsof the bill. He is particularly pleasedwith the location, which will give hisplant water and railroad facilities forbringing the logs to the mills and alsofor theirjshipment. “Welooked aboutthis seetion'and others,”he said, “carefully to secure a suitable site for our mill and think that we have found theright place at Charleston, where we have good transportation facilities and plenty of timber. We will saw what is known commercially as North Carolina pine, and by the way it is well recognized that the best quality of this pine grows right in this State.The establishment of the Tuxbur\plant will add another large exportingplant to Charleston. There are nowseven large exporting concerns, Burton, Anderson, North State, Simons,Stokes, and Halsey and Cook Lumbercompanies, whose shipments averagefour or five large schooners weekly during the year. Of course during thebusy season, the weekly shipments run much higher than this number. Butthe record is reduced by the shipments of the dull season. The Tuxbury company, it will be seen, will add considerably to the shipments of lumber out of Charleston. The Burton company now does the largest business of the several local concerns
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Georgetown Carolina Field
Georgetown, South Carolina, US
Wed, Jun 14, 1905
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