Business of	THE NEW ORLEANS MANUFACTURING & LUMBER CO., Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller November 1998

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The New Orleans Manufacturing & Lumber company, limited.  After a 
number of years' successful conduct of the lumber and planing mill 
business, the officers of this company felt that the rapidly increasing 
needs of "the new South" demanded a large mill for the manufacture of 
sash, doors, blind, general "openings" and interior finish.  Their 
plans have eventuated in the largest and best equipped mill of its kind 
in the South.  Situated on the "New Basin," where the lumber is placed 
at its doors, and having extra yards with independent switch for 
connecting with all railroads, their facilities for transportation are 
unexcelled and expenses therefore reduced to a minimum.  The mill is 
253 feet long, from Clara to Willow streets, on Julia street, 150 feet 
deep, three stories high, furnished with an equipment of planers, saws, 
etc., the most modern and complete of any mill of its kind in this 
section.  Great attention has been paid to security from fire.  

The Allington & Curtiss system of galvanized iron piping with two 
immense Sturtevant blowers keeps away dust and rubbish and 
automatically feeds the numerous boilers.  The automatic sprinkler will 
drench every floor if there is unusual heat.  More than one quarter of 
a million dollars has been invested and is already bringing good 
returns, as well as furnishing an object lesson, showing that 
enterprise and thrift are appreciated.  One thousand doors per week are 
manufactured without interfering with any part of the lumber, sash, 
blind and general finish business.  The orders from the surrounding 
country, Texas and Mississippi are surprisingly large.  One hundred and 
fifty men find constant employment, besides the large force indirectly 
connected by their outside demands for lumber and its shipping. The 
officers of the company are: Henry Wellman, president; William Bell, 
general manager; G. W. Stockton, superintendent.  They are pre-
eminently "men of affairs," Mr. Wellmann having been a large builder 
and contractor in the city of New Orleans for twenty years; Mr. Bell a 
practical "mill man" for a longer period and Mr. Stockton a practical 
business man many years, at present a member of the city council.  They 
are recognized and supported by a board of the best known capitalists 
and business men in the city, including Fritz Jahncke, Thomas Sully and 
A. Baldwin in addition to the president and superintendent.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 273 .
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.