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L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company began as a small sawmill in Moss Point, Mississippi and was incorporated in 1888.〔(L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company Historical Data ) Retrieved 2014-03-15〕 Originally, the main business was the manufacture of lumber from southern yellow pine, but the company switched to tree farming of southern pines in 1949. The family-owned company prospered for 75 years but was sold to International Paper Company in 1966. ==History== L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company had its beginning shortly before the American Civil War, when William Griffin acquired a sawmill at Moss Point, Mississippi, where the Pascagoula River and Escatawpa River converged. Lorenzo Nolly Dantzler married Griffin's daughter in 1857 and purchased the sawmill from his father-in-law in the 1870s.〔(Mississippi Rails: L.N. Dantzler Lumber Co. ) Retrieved 2014-03-12〕〔Hickman, Nollie. 1962. Mississippi Harvest: Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt, 1840–1915. Oxford: University of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-287-0〕 With financial assistance from a New Orleans lumber merchant, L.N. Dantzler had a larger sawmill constructed along the Escatawpa River at Moss Point, and it began operation in 1885.〔 The new sawmill began by processing 70,000 board feet of lumber per day, but within six years had increased daily production to 125,000 board feet. The new mill had kilns and machines for planing and edging the rough-cut lumber into finished products.〔 Dantzler persuaded two of his sons, J.L. and L.N. Dantzler, Jr., to join the company, and the three incorporated the L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company on March 1, 1888.〔(Charter of Incorporation of the L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company ) Retrieved 2014-03-15〕 The lumber company became the first privately chartered corporation in Mississippi.〔 For 20 years, the company relied on contract loggers to supply their sawmills, but in the 1890s, the company began buying large tracts of land to insure a more reliable source of timber. By the early 1900s, the company had acquired about of timberland in the six southernmost counties of Mississippi.〔( Mississippi Department of Archives and History Interview with A.M. Dantzler (July 27, 1973) ) Retrieved 2014-03-14〕 The sawmill's Moss Point location was well situated for receiving logs that were rafted down the Pascagoula and Escatawpa Rivers and their tributaries. But in order to access their inland timber-holdings, the company built a railroad from Vancleave, Mississippi, northwest into what would become Stone County.〔 Processed lumber from their sawmills was loaded onto company ships for export through the Gulf of Mexico to Europe, South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean Islands. By 1913, the company was the largest exporter of lumber in Mississippi, but with the advent of World War I, demand for lumber from overseas countries declined.〔 Profits from the Moss Point sawmill were used to expand the company by purchasing existing sawmills and constructing new mills throughout south Mississippi. Their holdings once included the Bond Lumber Company (1915 to 1919), Cedar Lake Mill Company (1919 to 1927), Handsboro Lumber Company (1906 to 1914), Native Lumber Company (1899 to 1931), Ten Mile Lumber Company (1910 to 1922), and Vancleave Lumber Company (1903 to 1931).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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