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and living quarters built as far to the stern as possible. This gave the boat 30 or 40 feet of deck space for loading lumber, as well as the hole. Today the accepted term, hold, is used for storage within a ship.
In looking for a more economical way of handling lumber, tug boats with barges were purchased or built. The barges were named, for the months of the year. The first one, named the JUNE^nad a capacity of 210,000 feet of lumber. In those days, barges were towed behind the tug, while today, barges are placed ahead of the boat and pushed. The lumber was shipped out of Gulfport or taken to New Orleans to be shipped to foreign countries.
One of the 1 930 editions of THE LUMBER TRADE JOURNAL had a lengthy article about Logtown and the Weston Lumber Company:
"The production of lumber has been continuous and its distribution has been very wide. Lumber has been shipped around Cape Horn to Guayaquil and Punta Arenas, Argentina, to both East and West Africa, and to various European countries bordering on the Atlantic and Mediterranean. One shipment went by rail to San Francisco thence by water to Korea. In fact, the product of the Logtown Mills has been shipped to nearly every country in the world that imports lumber. The history of the operation is very interesting."