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ton, and today this industry is one of the largest in yellow pine circles in the Southern States—ninety-five per cent, of the cut of these immense mills goes for export and is shipped through Gulfport and New Orleans. For the repairing of their fleet of water craft, the company maintain their own ship yards, which are modern, consisting of two sets of marine ways, and capable of handling vessels up to one hundred tons. The
A LOG TRAIN OF THE H. WKSTON I/UMBEK COMPANY.
officers of this big enterprise comprise the President. Mr.
H.	Weston; H. S. Weston, Vice-President, who is also President of the Board of Supervisors of Hancock County, and a Vice-President of the Lamar Life Insurance Company of Jackson, Miss ; the Secretary is Mr. J S. Otis, who has entire charge of the New Orleans offices of the H. Weston Lum-
ber Co., which are located in the Hibernia Bank Bldg.; the Treasurer is D. R. Weston. It is conservatively stated that the II. Weston Lumber Company have sufficient timber on their own lands to run their mill for the next twenty years.
FANCY STOCK RAISING—The H. Weston Lumber Co., have for some time past taken a lively interest and have introduced samples of thoroughbred hogs and cattle for breed-
A Logging Train of the H. Weston Lumber Company, illustrating the Facility with which Logs are Dumped in the Mill Pond.
ing purposes, and judging from their experience, they maintain that this profitable industry can be as successful in this-section of the country as anywhere else They have recently invested $900 in a thoroughbred Missouri Jack, and the bulls in the accompanying picture were purchased at a cost of from $200 to $250 a piece. They would be more than glad to extend information to others in the County, desiring it, regarding" their experience along this line.