An axe man and
sawyer survey their work.
Hauling a log
with a highwheeler.
A mule team
begins to load logs into a rail car.
Loading activity.
A locomotive
moves a logging structure into place.
Southern States
logs loaded for transport by the Gulf, Florida and Alabama Railway Company.
Southern States temporary
logging camp. These camps moved around
to follow the cutting of timber until there was no timber left to cut. By 1926 Southern States Lumber was out of
business.
Logs being rolled
into the Perdido River for floating down to the mills at Muscogee.
Pulling the logs
out of the river at Muscogee.
Inside the saw
mill.
Another view of
the saw mill interior.
Lumber cut and
stacked.
Loading dried
lumber on railcars.
Getting ready to pull
out of Muscogee Mill Number 4 with a load of lumber.
View of the
dumping ramp where scrap lumber was piled.
Elevated tracks
through the lumber yards.
The Commissary is
visible in the far right background in this aerial view of the mill.
Here are some of the chits issued in lieu of money to
workers. The chits were only good at
the Southern States Commissary and kept the workers tied to the company in a
manner that today would be viewed as oppressive.
Five cent chit.
Ten cent chit.