G. W. Cox
Unk gauge, wood rail
Headquarters:
Mill Location: Ellisville, MS (Jones County)
Mill Capacity: 6,000 to 10,000 ft/day
Years of Operation: 1885-1891
Miles Operated:
Locomotives Owned: none... mule or ox powered
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History
by Gil Hoffman:
In December 1885 Maria L. Cox bought a five acre mill site about two miles
north of Ellisville, on the New Orleans & Northeastern. Her husband, G. W.
Cox, built a small circular sawmill on this site with a cutting capacity
between 6,000 and 10,000 feet per day. Longleaf yellow pine was cut. Known
timber holdings for the Cox mill were purchased in January and February of
1887 (all by Maria Cox) and were about a mile north of the mill.
The Cox mill passed into the hands of the Kamper & Lewin Manufacturing
Company, probably about 1890. On February 2, 1891 the mill was sold to John
S. Dabbs and in 1892 was moved to Erata, Miss., on the New Orleans &
Northeastern, about four miles northeast of Laurel.
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Daily Picayune, September 17, 1890.
Fatal Explosion of a Boiler in a Saw Mill.
Ellisville, Miss., September 16. - The boiler
of the Cox steam mill, about two miles above here, exploded, instantly
killing a Mr. Sullivan and mortally injuring the fireman, John Ezell, and
Richard Crell and Neal Rounds, who will not live until morning. Rounds and
Sullivan were huring work and had been at the mill but a few minutes.
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