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MASON LUMBER COMPANY.

SEMINARY, Miss., Jan. 13, 1904.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

GENTLEMEN—We have your favor of the 11th and in reply will say that we are now using in our logging business five or six of your eight- wheel wagons. From the writer’s observation, would say that we think these wagons will put in from one-third to one-half more timber, on the same length haul, and with same team, than the best four-wheel wagon or two-wheel cart. The writer has had about fifteen years’ experience in handling yellow pine, in this country and Alabama, and has tried everything new that has been out in the logging line. When we came to Mississippi three years ago, we were using the regular four-wheel log wagon for our short logs, and the slip-tongue carts for our long timbers. One of our contractors brought in one of your wagons and on comparison of his work for the month with one of our best teams we found that we could not afford to use the four-wheel equipment. And, although our wagons were nearly new, we immediately threw them aside and re placed them with your eight-wheel wagons. On anything over one mile haul, we should say that the difference in amount of work which could be done will just about pay for the wagon in ninety days’ time. I were skeptical, when we first saw your wagons, about their ability to make short turns, but we find through experience that they will turn around in much less space than the four wheel, and in but little more space than is required for the two-wheel cart. We operate on all kinds of ground that yellow pine grows on, and have had no experience with them in hard woods.

If this letter will do you any good, you are at privilege to use it.

Yours truly,

MASON LUMBER COMPANY,

Per F. E. PARK, President.

THE K-C LUMBER COMPANY,

SUCCESSORS TO

Mississippi Yellow Pine Lumber Co.,

Lucedale Lumber Company.

Manufacturers of and Dealers in Long Leaf Yellow Pine Lumber.

LUCEDALE, Miss., May 2, 1903.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

GENTLEMEN—With reference to your eight- wheel log wagon, will say we consider them far superior to carts or four-wheel wagons.

We have had them in constant use for the past four years and would not be without them for many times their original cost.

We are hauling both long and short logs over all kinds of roads with them. They are the ideal wagons for lumbermen.

Yours very truly,

THE K-C LUMBER COMPANY,

By J. M. KENNEDY, Pres.

HAMMOND, LA., Feb. 19, 1904.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

GENTLEMEN—We are in receipt of your letter of the 18th inst., and we would be pleased for you to book our order for prompt shipment as per your quotation, the following:

Ten (10) eight-wheel log wagons.

We thank you very much for letting us handle your wagons, and we hope that our business relations will be such that you will never regret it. Please ship them as soon as possible.

Yours truly,

BALTZELL-DONALDSON Co., Ltd., By T. S. BALTZELL.

SHIP ISLAND LUMBER COMPANY,

Manufacturers of Long Leaf Yellow Pine and

Hardwood Lumber, Heart Pine Shingles.

SANFORD, Miss., Jan. 15, 1904.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

GENTLEMEN—We are in receipt of your inquiry of the 9th inst., addressed to Eastabuchie Lumber Company. While they were bought by the Eastabuchie Lumber Company, they were for us, and we take pleasure in rendering you the following testimonial as to their merit:

We are using thirteen of your wagons. We do not consider that there is any comparison with yours and other wagons that we have used and consider it indispensable in our business. We are able to increase the per cent of work by 50 per cent without increasing the team, with your wagon, over any other that we have ever used.

We would estimate that the wagon would pay for itself over any other wagon within three months of ordinary hauling. We consider your wagons an advantage over carts in going around through the woods, which is so great we can hardly estimate it. i takes considerable less swamping. The short turns that one is able to make with your wagons is a very great advantage, giving one little or no trouble in making the shortest turns.

We have used your wagons in both hilly and swampy woods, and can see no disadvantage in using them in either place, but quite an advantage in swampy woods as they do not bog as other wagons, for instance the four-wheel wagon.

Hoping that the above will help you to increase your business, and we assure you that it is our correct view of the matter, after having used your wagons ever since you have been making them.

Yours truly,

SHIP ISLAND LBR. Co.,

Per T. L. O’DONNELL.

OFFICE OF CONNER BROTHERS LUMBER COMPANY,

Manufacturers of and Dealers in Long Leaf Yellow Pine Lumber.

SEMINARY, Miss., Jan. 28, 1904.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

GENTLEMEN—We have your favor of the 1-9- 04 before us, and contents of same carefully noted, and in reply thereto will say that we cheer fully grant your request in giving you a testimonial letter in behalf of your eight-wheel wagons. We now have in use nine of these wagons, and for logging purposes we consider they have no equal. Prior to two or three years ago we were using carts and four-wheel wagons exclusively, but after thoroughly testing your eight-wheel wagons, we found them so far ahead of the four- wheel wagons and carts that we dispensed with the last named two altogether. We now have on hand several carts and four-wheel wagons that we are not using at all, and would be willing to seel them at any old price. We find with the same team and driver we can, and do haul on an average of from 10 to 33 1-3 per cent more logs per day with the eight-wheel wagon than we can with the carts or four-wheel wagon. We also find they are much easier to load, as they are lower to the ground. We also find no trouble whatever in turning or getting around through the woods.

We cheerfully recommend this wagon to all mill men and loggers in general.

Yours truly,

CONNER BROTHERS LUMBER Co.,

Per O. W. CONNER.

TWIN TREE LUMBER COMPANY,

Manufacturers of Long Leaf Yellow Pine Rift Flooring.

MAPLESVILLE, ALA., Jan. 20, 1904.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

GENTLEMEN—Replying to your favor of the i8th, at the present time we are using four of your eight-wheel logging wagons. We consider them for logging purposes worth double any otherwagon we have ever used. We think it is a safe statement to say that we can do from a quarter to a third more work on a long haul on these eight- wheel wagons than with the ordinary dray. We prefer them to carts in any part of the woods, and they give us very little trouble in bad weather, and we can turn as short with them as with any other wagon.

We are using ten of your self-loading skidders and for short hauls believe we can put logs on skidway for at least one-third less than we can do it any other way. Our ground is mostly hilly although for the last four months we have been getting most of our logs out of the hollows, which have been somewhat wet and swampy.

Trusting that the above will be of service to you, we remain, Yours truly,

TWIN TREE LUMBER COMPANY,

Per E. G. ENSIGN, Sect.

FISHER, LA., Jan. 16, 1904.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

GENTLEMEN—I have in use at present three of your eight-wheel wagons, and as soon as I can dispose of my four-wheel wagons I want three more. I find that they are the wagons for logging. I can haul logs from thirty to forty per cent cheaper with one yoke of cattle less than with a four-wheel wagon. I am logging at present in some bad sand hills and my eight-wheel wagon rolls over easily where my four-wheel wagon goes down to the hub, with from two to three hundred feet less on. Some have an idea that they cannot turn the eight-wheel wagon, but they are badly mistaken. The eight-wheel wagon can turn shorter. Where making the same turn, with a four-wheel wagon, it would turn over and your wheel cattle or mules are in danger. The reason I say this is that I drive a team myself and have done it and know it to be a fact. Some say that the road has to be grubbed and stumps all taken out of the way, but that is all “bosh ;“ they will go anywhere a four-wheel wagon will go, and places where a four-wheel wagon cannot go. One yoke of cattle will draw them over a log where the four-wheel wagon will need all four of its yokes to get across. Yours respectfully,

PAT FITZGERALD.

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