Talk:Kiln, Mississippi

Conflict about when the W. W. Carre Company sawmill suffered fire damage

All of the sources mentioned in this post can be found in the "References" section of the article. Three sources seem to indicate that the W. W. Carre Company Sawmill burned in 1912. The vertical file from the Annunciation Church Kiln on page 10 states, "This mill operated successfully until 1912 when it was severely damaged by fire, after which it was sold to the Edward Hines Lumber Co. out of Chicago in 1913..." The Mississippi Rails Web page on the Carre Company Sawmill states, "The sawmill burned in 1912 and in December of that year the logging railroad and equipment were sold to the Stern Foundry & Machinery Company, of New Orleans. In January 1913 the remaining property at Kiln was sold to the Edward Hines Lumber Company, of Chicago, Illinois, and the operation was reorganized as the Jordan River Lumber Company." On page 15 of Kiln Kountry, Dan Ellis writes, "Carre's mill burned down in 1912 and sold the property to Edward Hines."

However, also on page 15 of Kiln Kountry, Ellis writes, "The big plant suffered fire damages on October 28, 1913, and was sold to Dantzler and Edward Hines, who were lumbermen in Chicago." Ellis's second mention of the mill burning has a more precise date but since there is conflicting information on the same page in the book and since the Annunciation Church files seem to be the oldest record source, I have stated in the article that the sawmill burned in 1912.--GTheTigerFan (talk) 21:59, 22 July 2017 (UTC)