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Show BUILDING A MINIATURE EMPIRE) I As It 'Was Descri6ed to WW!ZZ W5WEIB fMKIAl I J Opening the second "unit:' RANTED that you had the capita, could you cut a square out of the jungles and build a complete civilization in three years? Could you buy a railroad, build it; buy an entire looging equio-ment. equio-ment. a cotton gin and hire an ai my of people, alone? One man a boy of 26 did all of this and has made out of a wilderness one of the largest hardwood logging operations in the world! He has builded an emvire out of brain, dreams, perseverance V' and capital. His story! Then listen: T UT ot tn6 1Jl growth of a if t-" massive wilderness, unln- habited save by the bear. ,hc Pnnthor an the wild - I things of a lrgln forest, a L 1 J LJ miniature empire Is spring- '"g. the creation or a Xs, dreamer and a doer. Scarcely out of his COs, and still a boy, Gerard B Lambert, who used, a score of years ago, to be the leader of all the little tribe of youngsters on Yandcventcr place, In St. Louis, now rules over an empire of hla own making built by train, courage and money, of which he was. happily, generously endowed. Yet It was not the love of conquest It Is not the love of dominating his fellows It Is not tho love of millions that prompted him to buy and build In tho heart of .he Jungle, but It is the love of being "a man' and "helping a man" that several other men, 30.000 acres of timber land and became an officer In the company. He had never seen tho property lying In Desha ami Phillips counties, fortj miles south of Helena and between the Mississippi and v.'hlte rivers, until 1911, when he went on an Inspection In-spection tour and came back full of enthusiasm over the possibilities of the neglected country, cotton spinner in Massachusetts, bought, with ent him to cut out a square wasto of land and tuild up a complete civilization in its place. it wits six years ago that young Lambert became be-came 'nteresled In a logging compan near Helena, Aik., Hnd through the influence of his father-in-law. Arthur 11. Lowe, a prominent How Empire Thought Grew. T AM BERT, having spent tho whole of his llfo In tho city, both St. Louis and New York, hadn't a very scientific notion of how timber la cut and how cotton Is grown. In fact, he had hot seen cotton in the boll since he visited tho lountry Jr. his childhood, .except as he went rushing past a white Held on a train. Nevertheless, Never-theless, when he saw a rich wilderness and the oil that nourished Its fertile growth, his big, luj lllstic Imagination set him to wanting a property of his very own one which ho could develop as ho wished and work out the dreams tnat were stirring his brain To try his experiments on the territory of which he was but a Joint owner and risk the possibility of a failure would be to hinder him In tho working out of his Ideals. He wanted to be free to do with the land as he chose. i" One day four jcars ago, when Gerard Lambert ' had hut JK years of life back of him to boast of. he made the purchase of practically a completo township, or thirty-three square miles, of Ar- kansis ungles, and he made it from the bocl: Platform of a railway car In exactly live minutesthen min-utesthen went on. A year later, he went back to his Jungle, full Oi his plan to develop it and this la what no has done. After ho had become the owner of the 21.00') acres if timber Land, the problem of making tho drearn of his life como true was a big and vital one. Ho could not leave his Eastern home nor nis little family to go down into the wilderness, nor did ho caro to take them with him into a coun'ry away from al! the accustomed comforts Of the city. Lambert Interested Henry F. Hol-fei'ook, Hol-fei'ook, a New York manufacturer, in his problem, prob-lem, and persuaded him to help work It out. Together, the two men formed a company and Incorporated it In the State of Arkansas, calling I' the Gerard B. LanXbcrt Company young Lambert as president and llolbrook secretary and treasurer tho only two officers and tho solo owners of the estate. Holbrook has made his home on the grounds and oversees the details de-tails of the management, while I-ambert makes monthly trips from Princeton. N. J , where ho lives, and works out the problem from afar. Has to Build Railroad. AFTER the plan for developing his estate had been thought out In the mind an? In tho heart of tho young owner, Lambert was confronted con-fronted with tho fact that ho had to buy a railroad rail-road and build It, buy building materials, buy logging machinery and all manner of things before be-fore ho could begin nn operation of any sort. The e3tat lay twenty-five miles south of Helena, Hel-ena, amid eight miles of Jungle, away from tho nearest railroad, which passed through the little lit-tle town of Elaine. The obvious thing to do first was to buy a railroad of his own and build it to his estate "It was a puzzling proposition, 1 Lambert said, "to set to work and buy locomotives, flat cars, box cars, rails and all the other accessories to building a railroad, when I hadn't the remotest Idea of c en the scientific names of their parts. "I have bought motor cars, motor boats, and know enough about aeroplanes to make an Intelligent Intel-ligent purchase, but engines to run on a railroad' rail-road' I scarcely knew where to begin " Lambert admitted that It was a lot of fun. however, to send on for Information about ' how-to how-to buv a railroad " and to pour over the prospectus prospec-tus of the various companies. Ho studied the subject long and assiduously before letting his contract. "When I did get ready to buy my railroad." ha said with pride, "I knew that It was the very best on the market and I was satisfied that i had not been deceived " But the creating of an empire out of a Jungle bIKc with wild creatures and eight miles or tangled growth, away from the habitation of man. takes more than the shrill whistle of tho locomotive to complete it. So when the six miles of railroad had penetrated the forest west from Elaine to the township six miles of a standard gauge, gravel-ballasted road, capable of carrying car-rying tho heaviest traffic and equipment, and 100 solid steel freight cars had been switched on to the private tracks of the '4-1 (a name which was given the railroad because of Its being be-ing shown, on tho map as township 4 south, range I easti. the next thing was to build homes, that a -civilization might grow up in the wilderness, with persons of Intelligence and moral character. A good homo being the first requisite of a pood man and a good woman, Lambert planned tho dwellings of his peoplo with infinite pains and loving thought. Natives Are Puzzled. THESE homes are all built of like material, stained brown, with a veranda and broad windows, making for the artistic and the comfortable. com-fortable. Tho army of workmen sot about the task of building a civilization without knowing the plans thut had fertilized In the brain of their leader or those that had been drawn out and lay In tho office of tho engineers. A house here, another there, was erected, a granary, stables and other buildings In scattered groups. Why they were scattered about In such apparent disorder no one knew sao tho dreamer dream-er that had had a dream and was making it come true. Surveyors had been at work before the powerful pow-erful machinery for the logging industry was brought In on the railroad of which Lambert was justly proud. At the right time tho logging spurs, draggers and colossal Implements made by men to raze to the earth In a day the mighty forests of a century, and which were bought by Lambert with the same trepidation and caro that the railroad had been bought and builded, started to sing through tho woods and frighten the beasts that had lived In peace for so many generations Man had entered tho realm of tho wild forest things, and they must gl way. The bear and the deer and the panther wero driven furthor and furthor to tho west, but they still rovo the unpcnelrated sections of the estate. Tho plan that Lambert had evolved Is unique. The estate is a perfect square except for a small corner of undeslrabh? land. In a map showing the futuro development of tho estate an "absolutely symmetrical scheme of layout similar to a factory floor and designed for tho greatest efficiency,'' as Lambert says, reveal the plan. Tho thirty-three square miles ar3 divided Into sections of one square mil ea ll Two of th theso sections, or 1280 acres, aro called a unit, and only on unit at a tlmo la developed. City in tlje Making. ONE farm manager Is put In charge of each unit, and highways aro built and roads made through each section. Each section is again divided Into plantations of twenty acres and a house built on each plantation. Directly In tho center of the entire estato a town Is rapidly growing Into a small city This has been named Lambrook, a combination oi Clearing timber land me ui :i cu uuuueri b name ana mo mac j)in oi Holbrook's. The town has lis own electric light plant, waterworks, lco plant, schools, stores, hoteH and churches. A prominent St. Louis surgeon sur-geon has charge of the health of Its citizens, and Lambert said' "lt la my ambition to have the healthiest and must Intelligent families In tho South on tho Lambrook plantations." With Lambrook as the heart of tho little empire, the process of duplication from now on will be applied to tho development of tho estate. One unit a year is all that has ben covered .so far. In the three cars In which tho Gerard B. Lambert Company has b'-on operating, but within the next twelvemonth they expect to complete two units and to con - tlnuo tho Increase until fifteen units a ear shall be completely Improved and completod. Each unit is a clean, finished Job In itself. What is the Process? That wilderness which Gerard Lambert bought from the observation of a Pullman In inose sisniiiciiuc uve uuiuwi or huh vw of tho richest sections of land In the country. Lying at the conjunction of th Mississippi and tho While rivers, the whole land was, before be-fore the building of levees along tho Mississippi, Missis-sippi, subject to tho overflow from tho two rivers, and tho deposit of llmo from th Mississippi Mis-sissippi and silt from tho Whlto Rlvor, combined com-bined to make the most fertile earth possible to find for the growing of cotton, rlc and alfalfa al-falfa Forests Are of Hard Wood. THE forests are of hardwood timber, 60 per cent aro red gum, 40 per cent are oak anu 10 per cent are ash. Some of the venerable old tiyes have reached a stately growth of Ko feet, and are 0 and 10 feet In diameter. Trees that had stood Tor centuries yielded themselves them-selves up to tho uses of man, and fell under the saw of civilization like the giant in "Jacic and the Bean Stalk " when tho little fellow hacked away at the great vino that towered n "Empire" street set,, J Into the uky. The railroad pushed further and further Into tho wilderness until it Is now twenty-tive mll?s long, and tho locomotives are still nosing their v ay further into tho conquered kingdom ot trees and beasts. Steam logging machinery of tho latest models mod-els are operating on the Lambrook plantations and four logging spurs are running at once-cutting once-cutting and delivering JOO.OOO feet of timber a day. It lsn t a dream that can build a town, rulo over ir.00 porsons and cut 80,000 feet of logs from every acre of a wilderness- Lambert is truly an idealist, but he Is also an executor. Tho record that ho has mado breaks that of any other that Is, young Lambert has created cre-ated out of a tangled forest tho largest hardwood hard-wood logging operation In tho world Moro than lOO.lx 10,000 feet of log already has bon delil ered lumber 12 Inches wide and an Incn thick. One log alone, 12 feet long, produced U080 foot of lumber. After the big timber is cut. It Is plied on flat cars and taken by tho private railroad to Helena, where It Is millod and sent to the markets. The land that is still heavily timbered tim-bered with a rich growth of smaller trees is called tho "cut-ovor" land. Lambert says that ho cannot afford to handle this light growth, and therefore he has It cut and dragged with great steam skldders into pyramids 30 feet In height. To these pyres, torches are applied, and the flames from tho burning brush and Infant In-fant trees dart many feet Into tho sky When tho fires die, only a residue of ashes is loft of tho tall young trees that gave promise of such magnificent growth, emulating the precedent set by their ancestors. 300 Experts on Job. FOLLOWING the complete razing of the forest for-est is the building of houses and barns and roads. Then all f ' spots or bayous are cleared An all steel and concrete cotton gin being erected on the 20,000 -acre tract. On right typical cotton field of the "Empire." and a narrow ditch made to drain off th water No low land Is left unused, but a tllo drainage syftm has been built throughout tho estate. ' 1 of this work is dono by a trained crew of 3po experts and the latest machinery for logging hat Lambert could obtain. The land virtually la flat, sloping but 1 foot to tho mile, and tho soli Is uniform in quality. Although tho popular idea of that country be-t be-t .veen the two rivers being that they are swamp lands, but no such conditions of th land exists ex-ists on the Lambert plantations. What fe swamps there are on the place are merely pockets that hold the water at all times. After tho homes aro built and tho land Is In cadlness for cultivation, crops of cotton are rot In. Rice and alfalfa are equally suited to H qrow In the soil, but greater profit can be gained H from the chosen crop. Tho cotton wlucu uit land yields is the Tin:r staple species, and where the government heiui average one-third of a bale an acre, tho Lam-oert Lam-oert plantations boast one bale of cotton to each and every acre of ground. Niiuty per cent of tho land actually goes into crops on the cultivated parts, and wherever the low places are drained b ditches cotton is H planted to tho extreme edge." Thirty dollars an acre in cash is the profit that this cotton IJ When the cotton pickers work In the fields of the Lambert estate, only the woolly head of the negro and the bronzed face of the health v IH country lad appears above tho magnificent height of tho cotton plants So high does it grow, and so fruitful, that when Gerard Lambert's Lam-bert's brother, Wooatcr Lambert of St. Louis, wont down to Lambrook last autumn to take motion pictures of the entire operation, tho whole fields of cotton bad to be searched to Ind a spot w here tho growth was low enough to see tho field workers at all. In most places, the growth reaches above tho heads of tho tallest men. Not content with building a concrete empire "wherein men live and move and have their being,' be-ing,' Gerard Lambert Is still building within himsolf. He has never stopped going to school. Evon now, with tho big problems that ho has chosen to solve, h Is making other problems for his brain. Living as he does In Princeton, N. J., he makes it an opportunity to continue with his courses at the university "I shall NEVER stop studying," h said, "for I lovo it" Sometimes ho plays hookey to go down to his Arkansas plantations, and, having taken many ' cuts " from his classes, he hurries back with a puckered brow because of all tho work ho has to 1 mako up school work that he has missed, missed to go down and solve tho problems not of mathematics, but of building an empire which he has created alone out of an Inland Jun-gle-j |