Colmer-Green Lumber Co.

Standard gauge, 40-lb rail Headquarters: Moss Point, MS Mill Locations: Colgreen, MS (Greene County)                           Byrd, MS (Greene County) Mill Capacity: 50,000 ft/day at Colgreen Years of Operation: 1918-1919 Miles Operated: 17 miles in 1924 Locomotives Owned:	Equipment:	Click Maps for Larger Versions
History by Gil Hoffman: The Colmer-Green Lumber Company was incorporated at McLain, Greene County, on May 6, 1918, by J. J. McIntosh, D. W. McLeod, F. Colmer, N. McInnis, C. W. Green, all of Moss Point, and B. E. Green, of McLain, with authorized capital stock of $50,000. F. Colmer was president and general manager. The company built a circular sawmill of 50,000 feet daily cutting capacity at Colgreen which began operating in September 1918. Colgreen was on the Blodgett branch of the Gulf Mobile & Northern Railroad 14 miles north of McLain.  The mill cut out in the summer of 1924 and the following year the plant machinery and logging equipment were sold to the Barnes-Creary Supply Co., of Mobile, Alabama. On May 3, 1922, the Colmer-Green Lumber Company, of Colgreen, Greene County, bought an option on the sawmill, timber holdings, logging railroad and equipment of the J. M. Hemphill Lumber Company, at Byrd, Greene County, four miles south of Colgreen. The property was purchased on August 23, 1923. The mill at Byrd cut out about August 1924.
	Rare view of the Colmer-Green mill at Colgreen.
ROSTER by Gil Hoffman:  Colgreen Mill    Road No.   Type   Builder   C.N.   Date   Cyls.   Dri. Dia.   Engine Wt.   Previous Ownership   Disposition   2   18-2 Shay   Lima   1811   12/1906   2-8x12   26   37330   Gulledge Lumber Co. #2, White, AR Gulledge Lumber & Stave Co., Inc. #2, Bastrop, LA Southern Iron & Equipment Co. #1435 Colmer-Green Lumber Co. #2, on 9/8/1919. Cost $3,250.   Transferred as #2 to Colmer-Green operation at Byrd, MS.   3   30-2 Heisler   Heisler   1144   1908   12½x12   33   60000   Unknown. Garner Extract Co. #1 Southern Iron & Equipment Co. #1719 Colmer-Green Lumber Co. #3, on 2/9/1922.   Barnes-Creary Supply Co., Mobile, AL (dealer), by 7/1925. Lamar Lumber Co. #2, Bogalusa, LA, on 1/31/1927. The Mengel Co. #2, Talisheek, LA, on 8/24/1935. Scrapped 4/1942.   4   28-2 Shay   Lima   2639   4/1913   3-8x10   27½   56000   Transferred from Colmer-Green operation at Byrd, MS.   Barnes-Creary Supply Co., Mobile, AL (dealer), by 7/1925. Hatter & Son #4, Creola, AL, by 12/1925.   5   4-6-0   Baldwin   11795   4/1891   16x20   40   80000   Ordered by Huntsville Belt Line & Monte Sano Ry., Huntsville, AL. Cancelled and resold to: New Orleans & Northwestern Ry. #5, Natchez, MS, on 11/16/1891. Tensas River Lumber Co., Moreau, LA, by 8/1912. Baxter Lumber Co. #2, Wildsville, LA Southern Iron & Equipment Co. #1057, on 4/5/1916. Poplarville Saw Mill Co., Poplaarville, MS, on 12/6/1916. Swift Lumber Co., Knoxo, MS, by 4/1920. Colmer-Green Lumber Co. #5, on ? Baldwin class 10-26 D 94   Barnes-Creary Supply Co., Mobile, AL (dealer), by 7/1925. Byrd Mill      Road No.   Type   Builder   C.N.   Date   Cyls.   Dri. Dia.   Engine Wt.   Previous Ownership   Disposition   2   18-2 Shay   Lima   1811   12/1906   2-8x12   26   37330   Transferred from Colmer-Green operation at Colgreen, MS.   For sale 8/4/1924 — mill cut out. Barnes-Creary Supply Co., Mobile, AL (dealer), by 7/1925   4   28-2 Shay   Lima   2639   4/1913   3-8x10   27½   56000   Shore Lumber Co. #4, Shore, GA J. M. Hemphill Lumber Co., Bexley, MS, in 1918. Transferred to Byrd, MS, by 11/1918. Colmer-Green Lumber Co. #4, on 5/3/1922.   Transferred as #4 to Colmer-Green operation at Colgreen, MS.

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