THE BABY NEWS.
VOL. 1.
Thursday, April 16, 1901.
No. 7.
THE HEADING INDUSTRY.
All of our citizens know of the
fact that under the management
of W. H. Flynn, quite a little em
ployment is given our people
making and hauling heading, but
few know to what extent the
work is actually done and it
gives the News pleasure to give
a general idea of the business in
•this issue.
First of all we will say that
Mr. Flynn represents the Alfrey
Hurley Stave Manufacturing
Company, the firm now having
five factories in operation, and
another one to be opened up. at
Pine Bluff is being figured on.
Those now in operation are sit
uated as follows: Two at Jones
boro, one at Poplar Bluff, one at
Memphis, and one at Crawfords
ville, Ind. The latter was for
merly owned by F. W. Hurley,
who was in our midst the latter
part of last week taking a gen
eral inventory for the company,
and was the part that recently
consolidated with the Alfrey
stave company.
Rich mill has the capacity of
one hundred cord per day.
While here Mr. Hurley made a
a survey or tour of the county
looking after timber interests.
We are informed by our friend
Flynn that prospects are bright
for the future of this industry
here, for there is much good tim
ber in our county suitable for
heading purposes.
At present the average num
ber 'of cords received here is
35. Last week fourteen car
loads of heading was shipped
from McCrory. The last month
ly pay roll for McCrory was
$1428.85 and Mr. Flynn says the
prospects are that it will run up
in the neighborhood of $3,000
per month hereafter.
This means a great deal for
McCrory and her citizens, as
quite a little extra money is put
into circulation thereby".
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The men who are engaged in
cutting and hauling the timber
make fairly good wages. The
cutters work by twos and get
paid by the rank, each company
cutting from 4i to 5 ranks and
for which they receive $4 per
day, averageing for each man the
sum of $2 per day. The average
made by each hauler and team
is $4 per day. The general ex
penses per day so far have been
about $30 and as only a compara
tively small force has been em
ployed up to date the amount
will be greatly increased when a
full force is put to work. At the
present the force numbers about
39 men all told and we are ad
vised it will soon be increased
until it will number in the neigh
borhood of one hundred men.
The first car-load of heading
was shipped from here on the
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30th of March and up to last Sat
urday 32 car-loads had been
shipped. The prospects for the
future as stated are very en
couraging and it is thought that
there will be work in the heading
enterprise all this summer.
Messrs. Hurley and Webb, two
representatives of the company,
were in our city last week and
figured on several hundred acres
of timber, and, if they can pur
chase the timber looked at, an all
summer’s job is assured. Prom
here these gentlemen went to
Pine Bluff where they are ne
gotiating for the purchase of a
9,000 acre batch of timber, and
if the deal is closed they may
open another factory there.
At present the timber is being
cut below DeView. Mr. Flynn,
the manager here, is a hustler
and thoroughly understands his
business. Most of his time is
devoted in looking after the cut
ting of the timer. Our friend
Bob Smith superintends the
loading of the cars.
This is no fish story but the
truth. Last Thursday afternoon
our friend Brant Angus of near
town came up to tell us of the
marriage of his daughter Esna to
Dr. W. T. McCain (?) and while
here got off the following: Mrs.
Brant Angus killed a chicken
which they ate at dinner or it might
have been supper. It don’t mat
ter when they ate it, neither is
the fact of her killing a chicken
anything unusual. It was a
common chicken, but it contained
something uncommon. Mr. An
gus said that in dressing the
chicken twelve eggs of various
sizes were found in it. Four full
grown eggs had hard shells, an
uncommon thing to be found in
chickens; one was a full grown
egg with a soft shell, and seven
were eggs in different stages of
maturity ranging from the bean
size up. Who can beat this?