Caldwell
& Cooley
Standard gauge
Headquarters: Ellisville
Mill Location: Ellisville, MS (Jones County)
Mill Capacity: 0,000 ft/day
Years of Operation: 1918-1920
Miles Operated: 1 1/2
Locomotives Owned: 1
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History
by Gil Hoffman:
Caldwell & Cooley was a partnership composed of F. R. Caldwell and T.
B. Cooley. On September 18, 1918 the partners bought 280 acres of land from
Mrs. S. I. Busby for $1,750. This land was located about two miles east of
Ellisville along the Ellisville branch of the Gulf, Mobile & Northern
Railroad and east of Tallahala Creek. On June 4, 1919 an additional 800
acres of timber was bought from P. M. Ikeler for $2,335. This timber was
south of the Busby tract. A small sawmill and dimension mill that apparently
cut hardwoods were built on the railroad.
The operation lasted until the spring of 1920. In May of that year the
entire operation was advertised for sale in the Southern Lumberman, asking
$25,000 for 1,200 acres of creek bottom land containing about 6,000,000 feet
of hardwoods and 1,000,000 feet of pine, a 40 horsepower Enterprise sawmill
outfit, a dimension mill, 1 small locomotive, 1½ miles of steel rail, and
20 head of oxen and wagons. All of the timberland was transferred to the
Merchants & Manufacturers Bank, of Ellisville, on July 29, 1922.
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ROSTER by Gil Hoffman:
1 0-4-0T Dewey
630 6x9 10000
Purchased from Southern Iron & Equipment Co. #1415, Atlanta, GA, on
11-20-19. Cost $1,250. Built for T. L. Smith (wood rail); to Southern
Lumber Co., on 5-7-16; to Southern Iron & Equipment Co. #1415,
Atlanta, GA; to Davis & Williams, Fitzpatrick, GA, in 4-1919; returned
to Southern Iron & Equipment Co. #1415. For sale 5-1920. Sold to
William H. Ellsworth, Ellisville, MS, on 6-23-22.
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