D.
C. Bacon Co.
Standard gauge, 30 to 40-lb rail
Headquarters: Brushy, MS
Mill Location: Brushy (later Shipman), MS (George County)
Mill Capacity: ,000 ft/day in 1910
Years of Operation: 1903-1907
Miles Operated: 7 miles in 1907
Locomotives Owned: ?
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Equipment:
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History
by Gil Hoffman:
The
D. C. Bacon Company was incorporated at Latonia, Jackson County on
April 4, 1903, by Dewitt C. Bacon, W. B. Gillican, Milton Bacon, W. A.
Shipman and J. F. Payne with authorized capital stock of $130,000. The
officers were: D. C. Bacon, president; Milton Bacon, vice president; W. A.
Shipman, secretary and resident manager, and W. B. Gillican, treasurer. On
April 10, 1903, D. C. Bacon purchased the Thompson & Ackley sawmill at
Brushy, Jackson County, on the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad
and its timber holdings. The price paid was $15,000. This plant was
extensively rebuilt. It was a Filer & Stowell circular type and had a
cutting capacity of about 50,000 feet per day. On April 15, 1904, Bacon
and Gillican transferred the Thompson & Ackley mill and about 10,000
acres of longleaf yellow pine timber to the new company.
On
May 3, 1907, the entire operation was sold to the Interstate Lumber
Company, of New Orleans, Louisiana, for $262,000.
Brushy as it was also known, was 8.1 miles east of Lucedale, practically
on the Alabama line. It later became known as Shipman.
D.
C. Bacon, a Georgian, before coming to Mississippi, had been freight agent
for the Tifton, Moultrie & Gulf Railroad in the southern part of the
state. Prior to that he was secretary and treasurer of the Pinopolis Mill
Company. Milton Bacon, his brother, was his successor as secretary and
treasurer of the latter company. W. A. Shipman, also from Georgia, had
previously been connected with the Amoskeag Lumber Company, of Eastman,
Georgia.
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D. C. Bacon & Co. No. 1 at SI&E in 1904. |
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ROSTER by Gil Hoffman:
Road
No.
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Type
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Builder
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C.N.
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Date
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Cyls.
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Dri.
Dia.
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Engine
Wt.
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Previous
Ownership
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Disposition
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1
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4-4-0
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Baldwin
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15½x24
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64000
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Unknown.
Southern
Iron & Equipment Co. #238
D.
C. Bacon & Co. #1, on 1/27/1904.
Cost $2,250.
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Interstate
Lumber Co. #1, Shipman, MS,
on
5/3/1907.
Day Lumber Co. #1, Shipman, MS, on
4/1/1909.
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3
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0-6-0
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Pittsburgh
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15x24
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50
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70000
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Allegheny
Valley #60 or #43
Pennsylvania
R.R. #6403 or #6401
Southern
Iron & Equipment Co. #319,
on
10/28/1904.
D.
C. Bacon & Co. #3, on 7/15/1905.
Cost $2,850.
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Interstate
Lumber Co. #3, Shipman, MS,
on
5/3/1907.
Day Lumber Co. #3, Shipman, MS, on
4/1/1909.
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