The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-11-24
NUMBER 40.

out to Denny s. Co. ard O'Leary cohfs
mitted suicide. About the same time
G. Goode and J. Miles, built mill
where Mr.. b. GOOdc now lives. They
failed almost before they started. At
Fish Hawk Bluff, on Dog river, Judge
Green Chandler and Mr.. Crumpton
built a mill in about 1885. Mr.. N.
Pardue, father of Mr.. Charles Par
due, agent in New Orleans for the
Southern express Co., was associated
with Chandler and Crumptoh IN this
mill. They all followed the Other
mill men by failing.
Just opposite to Capt. B. Goodies
residence is the mill now owned m
the Moss Point Lumber Co Hsfs
Mr.. Colmer built mill, failed and
sold out to L. Randall, who lost mon.
ey and sold to Crumphorn, who soon
turned 1t over to the sheriff.
Just above this place VIM. and John
Smith built a mill many years ago,
and final results show that saw mills
will ruin any man, even to those OF
the large and numerous Smith family.
Just below Elders Ferry we find
pile of saw dust pile known as the
Danner mill place. Here SO many
have failed that don't remember
all their names. Here the Vaughan
brothers failed two or three times.
Here Danncr and Towner failed. Here
A. G. banner & ca. failed, and help
ed to burst the Oldest bank In tho
South.
just across the lake Is what isss
known as the Tam mill. Tam's
money, like the saw logs he put In the
river, sunk and he went to work for
daily wages. Here Col. Perry Leslie
and Capt. ]. X. Hawthorn built a
mill after paying L. Randall large
price for the site. Leslie was one Of
the ''F. F.'s of Alabama. He died
and this mill put his aristocratfc
wife to keeping boarders in Mobile
for living. Just below this on Dutch
bayou, William Davis and Butch GofR
built mill soon after the war. Both
are long since dead, their mill gone,
and all their children working for
daily wages in saw mills.
About five miles north Of Moss
Point near Robinson's on Three Riv-
ers, Col. Milne, a colonel Of negro
regiment during the war, together
with a number Of other northern men,
, built very large mill soon after the
war. The colonel had no trouble
menaging thousand negroes In the
U. s. Army, but this saw mill done
/. him up" In year or SO. Our old
friend, Mr.. VIM. Griffin bought this
! mill and moved it to where Dantzler's
5 new mill now stands. In q few years
Y 1t burned down.
I. But why should continue to re-
count failures. II is plain that We
have only to think Of any saw mil
} and finally we find 1t failure. These
failure were not because our mill men
i. have been poor business men. Our
r mill men as rule, have been Of the
: best. Our mill men have generally
, lived well, and were liberal and even
generous, but few Of them extrava.
n CANT. 1t would seem that all mill
!. mems worldly creed should be: Eat,
G drink and be merry, for Tomorrow
y we are busted"
Taking 900 working days in eacff
x year, presume there has been an av.
;. crage OF 100000 feet of lumber sawed
e each day during each year since the
S war or for the last thirty years. This
$ would make 120,0O0,0O0 feet in each
: year, and $500, 600. 900 sawed since the
9 war. Now, II this timber was yet
d standing and alive at the places from
n which it has been cut II would be
J. worth $3.50 per thousand feet, ~
!, much OF 1t would be almost on tte
: bank Of the streams. $500, os00o
/ feet at $3.50 per thousand would make
!. the enormous sum of n, 100000. This
r is 300 per cent more than all the prop.
|. erty In this county Is now worth, and
II more than the value Of all the proper
+ ty In all the counties tributary tU Oul
!, mills. II there had never been Z days
y work done In this county its property
Z In standing timber alone, would b
worth three times as much ash h
Is now, even including the L. + n. nil-
|e road and all personal property. When
Is the Press Convention met here sever
I, al years since, Col. J. +. H. Claiborne
'e was not able to attend, but wrote "a
It historical sketch Of the journalists ol
le South Mississippi, which was reaa b.
it Brother Harper, Of the Raymond Ca
d zette. Col. Claiborne closed BY say
d ing "They all died poor" In clos.
ing this history Of our mill men,
Z, am sorry to have to writes ''Ihey oil
4 died poor"
y A recent correspondent iu your pa
II per, In writing IN obituary, said the
Z. deceased was hnrn near bls present
Is residence. So I will ~ that II ] an
II mistaken about all Of theae mn neu
N all dying poor and thsy will let IN
Or know, Will aladly correct nv state
mcnts. u. A. uDuR
= Moss Point, Hiss, Nov a, 1eoG