Bear
Creek Mill Co.
Standard gauge, 45-lb rail
Headquarters: Mobile, AL
Mill Location: Leakesville, MS (Greene County)
Mill Capacity: 50,000 ft/day in 1917
Years of Operation: 1908-1925
Miles Operated: 15 miles in 1917
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Map of the company's logging railroads for Google Maps |
History
by Gil Hoffman:
The
Bear Creek Mill Company was incorporated at Leakesville, Greene
County, on October 26, 1908, by William H. Louisell, J. T. McKeon and Willie
T. Stone, all of Mobile, AL, with authorized capital stock of $30,000. At
that time the company took over the sawmill of the Leakesville Lumber
Company, at Leakesville. The two companies maintained separate identities
with the Leakesville Lumber Company doing the logging for the Bear Creek
Mill Company. The sawmill had a cutting capacity of 50,000 feet per day in
1917. The company went out of business in 1925.
Before
incorporating at Leakesville in 1908, the Bear Creek Mill Company had
operated a sawmill at Manistee, AL, under the same name.
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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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2
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36-2
Heisler
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Heisler
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1150
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1909
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13x12
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36
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72000
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New.
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Homewood
Timber Co., Uriah, AL, on 2/7/1925.
Brownlee
Lumber Co. #2, Chickasaw, AL
Changed to 36" gauge.
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4
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2-8-0
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Vulcan
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2292
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5/1914
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15x24
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42
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88000
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New. Named Tom Shepard.
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Homewood
Timber Co., Uriah, AL, on 2/7/1925.
Sipsey Valley Lumber Co. #202, Buhl,
AL.
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