Madison Journal - Chicago Mill acquires Singer Manufacturing Co. property

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The Madison Journal
March 7, 1941

Chicago Mill Acquires Singer Interest Here

Contract For Balance of Land And Timber Holdings Of Singer Company Located In This Parish

R. N. Ware, manager of the  Chicago Mill & Lumber Co., in Tallulah , announced this week that the 
Chicago. Mill & Lumber Company has contracted for all the land and timber which was owned by the 
Singer Manufacturing Company in this parish. This company has for a number of years owned part of this 
tract, both land and timber, and now they have acquired the balance.

At one time the Singer Company owned somewhere near a hundred thousand acres of timber land in this 
parish, most of which was acquired by them many years ago. For a number of years there was considerable 
speculation in Tallulah as to whether or not or when this company would place a mill in Tallulah and 
cut this timber. Although there were at various times rumors to the effect that a mill would be erected, 
this company never did so, even though some of the timber then owned had matured and in some cases became 
overripe. It was then that the Chicago Mill & Lumber Company opened a mill in Tallulah, acquiring the 
old Kurz Bros. interests, which consisted of a mill and some other holdings. They rebuilt the mill here 
and increased the capacity greatly besides adding a veneer plant and box factory, with other expansions. 
Later it was announced that they had acquired a part of the Singer timber and land, and now it is announced 
that they have acquired the balance. It is reported that this tract in this parish is practically the 
only large tract of virgin hardwood timber of considerable size left.

The timber has been removed from a part of the original tract which this company acquired from Singer, and 
they have already begun to cut up the cutover land into small tracts and offer it for sale. Mr. Ware states 
that it is their intention to follow this policy, and that it is most likely that by the time the timber is 
removed from all the land the biggest part of it will have been placed in cultivation, and thus agriculture 
will replace the industry lost by cutting the timber.

This Singer timber land, both that first acquired and that recently acquired are incorporated into a game 
preserve, and the transfer some time ago, and the transfer now do not have any effect on the preserve. Even 
an individual who purchases a small tract is prohibit¬ed from hunting on that part he purchased. This preserve 
is covered by a contract between the state and the Singer Company, and no matter who buys the timber or the 
land; the contract will not expire until 1946, according to Mr. Ware. Whether this land is included in a preserve 
after that time will de¬pend upon the completion of another contract to that effect.