Hooks & Gallagher
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Standard gauge, 25-lb rail Headquarters: Mill Location: Hickory, MS (Newton County) Mill Capacity: 0,000 ft/day Years of Operation: 1910-? Miles Operated: 6.5 miles Locomotives Owned: 1 |
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History by Gil Hoffman: On June 1, 1910 E. J. Gallagher purchased around 1,520 acres of timber from the Ingram-Day Lumber Company for $13,500. This timber was about five miles north of Hickory, Newton County. About the same time W. B. Hooks, of Forest, Miss., leased the sawmill formerly belonging to Joe K. McInnis, at Hickory, Miss. Hooks and Gallagher then formed a partnership to operate the old McInnis mill using the former Ingram-Day timber. Hooks also owned a mill, known as the Haddon Mill, 7½ miles northeast of Forest, Scott County.
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| ROSTER by Gil Hoffman: 273 0-4-4F Rhode Island 858 6-1880 45 12x16 44000
On hand by 1-1912.
Built as Manhattan Ry. #273 (a 2-4-2T), rebuilt by Manhattan Ry.
in 11-1887 to 0-4-4F; to Birmingham Rail &
Locomotive Co., Birmingham, AL, on 5-16-03; to
Williamsburg Lumber Co., Collins, MS, in 1903; to Lamar Lumber Co., Clyde,
MS.
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