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Finkbine Lumber Company sawmill, Wiggins, Mississippi, circa 1920 Virgin longleaf pines near Wiggins, MS, c. 1900. Up until the 20th century, the virgin pine forests of south Mississippi were virtually untouched by man, because there was no efficient system for transporting cut logs from the forests to sawmills for conversion to lumber.
Fernwood Lumber Company had its beginning in the 1870s when John Fletcher Enochs and his son, Isaac Columbus Enochs, started a lumber business near Crystal Springs in Copiah County, Mississippi. [1] Between 1880 and 1920, Fernwood Lumber Company became one of the largest lumber operations in south Mississippi with investments in timberland ...
The Swan River Logging Company was established in 1892 along the confluence of the Swan and Mississippi Rivers near Jacobson, Minnesota. A landing had been in use for many years, taking travelers to farmsteads and towns all along the way. The steamboats used cord wood to fuel the vessels.
The company closed its Moss Point sawmill in 1942, and moved the company office to Ten Mile, [9] near Perkinston, Mississippi. There they opened a new sawmill. [ 2 ] During World War II, Dantzler Lumber Company entered into a contract with the War Department to use labor from the prisoner-of-war camp in Saucier, Mississippi for stacking ...
The Weyerhaeuser Company (/ ˈ w ɛər h aʊ z ə r / WAIR-how-zər) is an American timberland company which owns nearly 12,400,000 acres (19,400 sq mi; 50,000 km 2) of timberlands in the U.S., and manages an additional 14,000,000 acres (22,000 sq mi; 57,000 km 2) of timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada. [5]
Musser Lumber Company was a US lumber company, and one of Iowa's pioneer lumber concerns. In its day, it was one of the most complete and modern lumber mills on the Mississippi River, employing about 400 men during the working season, and between 200 and 300 men in the logging end of the business.
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The company owned approximately 160 miles (260 km) of standard gauge main rail line, 147 miles (237 km) of branch lines and 106 miles (171 km) of track in Gulfport. [3] The primary rail line began at Gulfport and extended northward to Jackson, Mississippi, with branch lines connected to the towns of Maxie , Mendenhall , and Laurel .