The Brookhaven leader., 1883-07-05

the lumber and saw mill business. lie
sawed aud planed lumber, dressed Vt and
shipped IL to the Western and Northern
markets. In 1851 he became n part of the
great firm Of Hamilton, Iioskins & Co.,
aud that year the firm commenced railroad
building on private account. They now
have nine miles Of standard guage road,
aud a solid graveled road-bed extending
| from BroOkhaven towards the Pearl river
and Simpson county, and reaching in the
direction of Meridian and toward the
| great lumber interest OfSOuth Mississippi,
aud they are still building side tracks and
projecting their main line into tue great
| pine forest.
Just now they have two brick kilns in
operation on this road, and will soon have
in market 900 001 burnt brick. They have
four immense saw mills in constant opera
ton, with lumber drying houses of the
latest improved patents. planning mills, mills
for tongue and grOoved lumber, two steam
engines, great railroad pile-driver, aud a
track laying machine and the neces cary
complement of cars, all in active operation
and are shipping annually from 1000 to
l 500 carloads of plank, planed, dressed,
tongue and grooved, and kiln-dried for
Chicago and the markets of the world.
And all this is done without a syndicate,
VI JHt tAtCullbI vi ~
gagc bond, or the organic Ition of any 9TH
or construction company than their pri-
vate selves. They cut the tree in the for
est, haul it to the railroad, put in on their
train and deliver it at their mills. And
here machinery takes hold of it, hands it
to the saw, cuts it of the required dimen-
sons, kiln-dries it, planes it, tongue and
grooves it, and when your correspondent
last saw it, it was on the great Illinois
Central route, speeding along to market
in box cars marked, "IIamilton, Hoskins
& Co., Long Leaf Yellow Pine, Chicago"
Do these gentlemen intend to stop at
this short line roadi Not bit of it, In
1882 they got a charter tor the Natchez,
Brookhaven and Meridian railroad and the
extent of their lumber and railroad opera
tons is about to extend to great proper
tons What will be their connections,
can't tell. 1t is III miles from Meridian
through tile heavy pine lands of Lauder
dale, Jasper, Smith and Simpson and Lin
coin to BroOkhaven, thence to the Mem
phs, Vicksburg and New Orleans railroad
as miles, and % miles thence to Natchez.
Will the road become part of the Selma,
Rome and Dalton and East Tennessee sys-
TEN which reaching Meridian now lies at the
meeting of the V. & NJ and NJ. & o. road,
for its New Orleans and Western connec-
tionsi and is it to become another great
feeder of the Illinois Central? or will, per-
haps, the Wilson and Huntington system
of railroads ingraft it OH the Memphis;
Vicksburg and New Orleans X. RI These
things can't answer, but few months in
this age of railroad progress will deter
mine. But let il 90 on where 1T pieases,
let it be part of system or great in
terror local road connecting with these
routes and with u connection reaching
South through Simpson to the Meridian,
New Orleans & South Eastern Railroad.
1t is Obliged to develop and make COM
mercially great and permanently rich the
section around BroOkhaven. Aud so We
bid the subject adieu, wishing long life
and prosperity to the firm of Hamilton,
Hoskins X Co., and all the truly great
workers of the South.
ACcEPTE--HOC.