Love Lumber Co. (1920-1924)
Poplarville Lumber Co. (1924-1926)
Standard gauge, 60-lb rail Headquarters: Poplarville, MS Mill Location: Poplarville, MS (Pearl River County) Mill Capacity: 0,000 ft/day Years of Operation: 1920-1926 Miles Operated: 7 miles in 1924 Locomotives Owned: |
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History by Gil Hoffman: The
Love Lumber Company was incorporated at Love's Mill, Pearl River
County on June 2, 1920 by M. P. L. Love, R. D. Love and J. W. Rogers, all of
Hattiesburg, with authorized capital stock of $25,000. On August 2, 1921 the
charter was amended to raise the capital stock to $75,000. At that time the
company was composed of R. N. Steadman, president; R. D. Wentworth, vice
president and general manager and M. P. L. Love, secretary. C. P. Morgan was
woods supt. The
company operated two sawmills just east of Poplarville, the first being
built in 1920. Both mills cut longleaf yellow pine, specializing in railroad
material and large timbers. Railroad lines extended westward from each of
these mills to a point of intersection from which a single line continued to
the New Orleans & Northeastern at Prentice Spur in Poplarville. This
line was owned by the Gulf Pine Lumber Company with which the Love Lumber
Company had a contract, dated September 1922, to haul cars loaded with
finished lumber from the Y-intersection, between the mills and Poplarville,
to Prentice Spur. Timber for the operations extended eastward from the mills
for about three miles to the Wolf River. Total acreage owned was about
3,500. On
April 23, 1923 a fire destroyed the planing mill, dry kilns, lumber sheds
and a quantity of lumber at plant No. 1 with a loss of about $100,000. Not
long after this fire the company encountered financial difficulties and
ceased operations. The Poplarville Lumber Company, successor to the Love Lumber Company, was incorporated at Poplarville, Pearl River County, on December 24, 1924 by R. N. Steadman, of Hattiesburg; R. G. Steadman, of Poplarville, and J. W. Rogers, of Hattiesburg, with authorized capital stock of $40,000. R. N. Steadman was president; J. W. Rogers, secretary; R. G. Steadman, general manager, and W. H. Sumrall, woods superintendent. The mill cut out about September 1926. |
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ROSTER by Gil Hoffman:
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For more information contact Tony Howe at howe6818@bellsouth.net or David S. Price at dsprice46@bellsouth.net