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.

 

 

 

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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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