Taylor & Crate

Standard gauge, -lb rail Headquarters: Buffalo, NY Mill Location: Merigold, MS (Bolivar County)                          1899-1904                          Hinchcliff, MS (Quitman Co.)                          1907-1918 Mill Capacity: 40,000 ft/day in 1910 Miles Operated: 10 miles 1917 Locomotives Owned:	Other Equipment: Purchased Clyde Iron Works Ground Skidder #2163, shipped to Hiram, Miss. 1-9-1914.	Click Map for Larger Version
History by Gil Hoffman and Tony Howe: Merigold Mill  About 1899 Taylor & Crate, of Buffalo, New York, built a sawmill at Merigold, Bolivar County. In early 1904 this mill was shut down with the intention of building a new mill at Tudor, Mississippi.   Hinchcliff Mill  By 1907, Taylor & Crate owned 10,865 acres of timberland located east and southeast of Hinchcliff, in Quitman County. A standard gauge (probably) railroad ran into this timber. Another 2560 acres of timber was owned west of Hiram, in northern Tallahatchie Co. A railroad was built off of the Y&MV into this timber in 1914.
ROSTER by Gil Hoffman:    Merigold Mill: (a)                     0-4-0T             Porter             2029                          8-1899                                       10x14                                         Purchased new.                           Sold to Wade-McHenry Lbr. Co., Duggers, Miss.(Tentative); to J.J. Jones Lbr. Co., Webb, Miss., about 1912.   Hinchcliff Mill:    Road No. Type Builder C.N. Date Cyls. Dri. Dia. Engine Wt. Previous Ownership                                                                 Disposition 3 0-4-4TB Porter 3010 3/1904 12x16 38 52500 Taylor & Crate #3 F. W. Taylor, Merigold, MS Transferred as #3 to Hinchcliff, MS. Forest Products Chemical Co., Memphis, TN, in 2/1920. Scrapped 1945. 4 26-2 Heisler Heisler 1281 1913   12x10 30 52000 New. George C. Ehemann & Co., Tallulah, LA Y&MV Rail lease dated Jan. 26, 1914, for railroad running 1 ½ miles west from Hiram.

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