Carriere Lumber Co. (1895-1899)
Lacey Lumber Co. (1899-1917)
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Standard gauge, 35-lb rail Headquarters: Carriere, MS Mill Location: Carriere, MS (Pearl River County) Mill Capacity: 0,000 ft/day in 1910 Years of Operation: 1895-1917 Miles Operated: 9 miles in 1914 Locomotives Owned: |
Equipment: 12/1914: 3 locomotives, 8 log cars, 1 Marion loader, 1 Lidgerwood skidder |
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History by Gil Hoffman: On
May 14, 1895, Hinton & Thompson Company, composed of A. S. Hinton and
M. L. Thompson, entered into an agreement with Alice C. Taylor and W. A.
Dill to combine their assets and form a corporation to conduct a sawmill
business at Carriere Station, on the New Orleans & Northeastern
Railroad. Hinton & Thompson would supply the sawmill, then located at
Whittles Switch, on the N. O. & N. E., a few miles north of
Hattiesburg, and Taylor and Dill would supply a tract of recently
purchased timber land, each party getting $10,000 capital stock in the new
company. The Carriere Lumber Company was then incorporated at
Carriere Station on February 20, 1896 by A. S. Hinton, M. L. Thompson,
Mrs. Alice Wilson and W. A. Dill with authorized capital stock of $20,000.
A mill site was purchased at Carriere Station on October 24, 1895 and the
sawmill plant of Hinton & Thompson moved from Whittle Switch to
Carriere and reassembled. The company got into financial difficulties
almost immediatly and went into receivership on July 5, 1897. On July 31, 1899, the Lacey Lumber Company purchased the assets of the Carriere Lumber Company from S. F. Dill, Receiver of the Carriere Lumber Company. The purchase price of $2,925 included the sawmill plant at Carriere Station, all machinery and about 3,700 acres of timber. The Lacey Lumber Company, then unincorporated, was composed of M. J. Hinton, S. J. Johnson and John C. Woodward. On September 21, 1899 these same men incorporated the company with authorized capital stock of $20,000. In 1902 W. B. Harbeson became a stockholder in the company and by 1907 had become president. At that time L. M. Harbeson was secretary, and John C. Woodward, treasurer. The
Lacey mill cut out on May 30, 1917. In June 1917 the sawmill plant was sold
to R. J. Williams, of Bay St. Louis, MS. Finally, on December 6, 1921, W. B.
Harbeson sold 1,124 acres of cutover land, formerly belonging to the Lacey
Lumber Company, directly east of Carriere, including the mill site, to
George M. Murrell, of Washington, D. C. In
1882 W. B. Harbeson began his sawmilling career at the mill of John Kamper,
in Laurel. He remained with Kamper until 1891 when the mill was sold to
Eastman, Gardiner & Company. He then continued with Eastman, Gardiner
& Company, in charge of their yard and building departments. In 1898 he
left to build his own sawmill in Laurel, which was in operation for two
years. From Laurel he moved to Ellisville, where for 18 months he operated
the plant of the Tallahala Lumber Company. In early 1914 Harbeson purchased timber lands in the vicinity of De Funiak Springs, FL, and soon afterward built a circular sawmill at that place. That same year he also built a sawmill at Robert City, South Dakota. Harbeson continued to operate in Florida for many years.
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