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EIGHT-WHEEL WAGON & SKIDDER

USER TESTIMONIALS

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Loranger Old Farmer's Day 2004

8 Wheel Log Wagon Index

Chronicle Story about the Lindsey Wagon

Belize Mahogany Loggers

Eyles Letter of 1936

Eyles Order of 1936

Request for Quote by Grimes

Financial Information

Instructions for Hub Caps on Wagons

Wagon Company Payroll - 1910

W.H. Burton Hours and Tasks -- May 1913

Payroll 1914

Wagon Company Payroll - 1932

Wagon Company Salaries

Wagons Shipped April 1922

Wagons Shipped October 1922

Wagons Shipped 1929

Rise and Fall

Lindsey Wagon History

Graysonia Memories

Wagon Pictures

Busy Body and Shays

Lindsey Wagon Co. 1940 Brochure

Wagon/Skidder Testimonials Index

Lindsey Wagon - 1964

Loading a Log Wagon

Loading a Skidder

Wagon Patent Info

Lindsey Lumber Company

San Augustine Lbr. Co. & Lindsey Wagon

Logging Index

JAS. HAND,

Long Leaf Yellow Pine Lumber,

Purvis, Miss.

PURVIS, Miss., Jan. 12th, 1904.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

GENTLEMEN—Replying to yours of the 4 inst.; we are using four of your wagons; and on small timber we consider each wagon equal to three carts, or two of the four-wheel wagons.

We use the same team (4 yoke oxen) to this wagon that we did to cart; we would there fore say that there is a gain of 100 per cent over other wagons and carts. We figure that this increased work will pay for your wagon in about four months.

In using your wagon, our teams go anywhere through the woods, do their own loading, and very quickly, too; and can turn where any other wagon, or team, can.

For the past eight months we have been get ting lob-lolly pine out of reed brakes, which are very swampy; and after getting load out of branch, we have two very long and steep hills to pull; but with all this, do fine work.

Yours truly, JAS. HAND.

SALMEN BRICK AND LUMBER COMPANY,

New Orleans Office, 722 Common St., Under St. Charles Hotel.

Yellow Pine and Cypress Lumber, Shingles, Lath and Mouldings. Hewn and Round Piling. Pressed Front and Ordinary Brick.

Telegraph Office: Salmen, La.

SLIDELL, LA., June 28, 1902.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

GENTLEMEN—Replying to your request of the 26th, we take pleasure in expressing our satisfaction with your eight-wheel wagon, and hereafter. instead of buying the four-wheel, we shall in all probability buy nothing but your eight-wheel wagon.

Wishing you success, we are,

Yours truly,

SALMEN BRICK & LBR. Co., Ltd.,

Per F. SALMEN, V. P.

SIMMONS & WRIGHT,

General Merchants and Cotton Buyers.

KEWANEE, Miss., Aug. 30, 1902.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

DEAR SIRS—We have been using two of your eight-wheel log wagons for nearly three months, and take great pleasure in saying that they are the greatest labor-saving wagons we have ever used. We would not be without these wagons for double the price. Yours truly,

SIMMONS & WRIGHT.

LOUISIANA VENEER AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

Box Shooks, Lumber, Gum and Cottonwood, Oak, Ash and Cypress.

Mill and Factory Oak Ridge, La.

Office: Sugar Exchange Building, New Orleans, La.

OAK RIDGE, LA., Jan. 15, 1904.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

GENTLEMEN—Replying to your inquiry of the 11th inst. regarding our estimate of your eight- wheel wagon: We take pleasure in saying we are using two of them to our entire satisfaction and for our purposes—hauling very heavy oak and gum logs—we deem them much. superior to any wagons we know of. Having had no experience with carts we can make no comparison with them.

Our oldest teamster at first didn’t think they would do at all, but after one day’s hauling said, “I’m converted. They’ll do. I can turn where any four-wheel wagon can.”

With four ordinary sized mules we are now bringing in about 700 feet of heavy oak logs per load, hauling same 1 1/2 miles over heavy, swampy road, through “buckshot” soil, and thirty days ago, when roads were dry and hard, with same teams we brought in from 1,000 to 1,285 feet of oak per load.

Wishing you much success and increased demand for the Lindsey Wagon, we are,

Yours truly,

LA. VENEER & MFG. COMPANY,

Per B. W. SEAGO.

MOBILE LUMBER COMPANY,

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers, Cypress, Hardwoods, Pine, Mahogany and Spanish Cedar.

MOBILE, ALA., Jan. 16, 1904.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

GENTLEMEN—Your favor of the 12th to hand and in reply to your questions, we beg to say:

First—We have four of your wagons in use.

Second—We consider your wagons superior to any we have ever used.

Third—We figure that the increase of work over other wagons is about 20 per cent.

Fourth—We figure that your wagons do not take any more time to handle than other wagons.

Fifth—We have no trouble whatever in making short turns, and have to do no swamping.

Sixth—We are operating your wagons on grounds of all conditions, swampy, hilly, etc.

We are also using your skidder with thorough satisfaction.

They are great and we think they have no superior, even if they have an equal. Yours truly,

MOBILE LUMBER COMPANY,

Per W. P. CRENSHAW, Treas.

R. C. CARTER,

Rough and Dressed Long Leaf Yellow Pine Lumber.

Telegraph and Express Office: Pachuta, Miss.

P. O. ORANGE, MISS., June 27, 1902.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

GENTLEMEN—You know for some time after introducing your eight-wheel log wagon that I would not entertain the idea of using them at all. However, I finally bought one, and the working of this was so satisfactory that you had my following order for three others. They have proven a success beyond my expectation. I am pleased to give you an expression of my appreciation to you for their merits, with best wishes for your success in introducing these log wagons to all classes of mill men, 1 am,

Very respectfully yours,

R. C. CARTER.

ELDER & BRADFORD,

Manufacturers of and Dealers in All Kinds of Rough and Dressed Yellow Pine Lumber.

Bill Lumber a Specialty.

Biloxi, Miss., Feb. 2, 1904.

Lindsey Wagon Company, Laurel, Miss.:

GENTLEMEN—We are using two of your eight- wheel log wagons, one four-wheel and one 7 1/2 foot wheel log cart. The Lindsey eight-wheel wagon is far superior to either the four-wheel wagon or cart.

They are lighter draught than either, even when loaded with 40 per cent more timber, using same team. We are satisfied that the increase of gain with the eight-wheel wagon over all others in use here, for sixty days’ ordinary haul and good weather, will pay for the eight-wheel wagon.

The eight-wheel wagon is just as easily manipulated in the woods as the four-wheel wagon or log cart,, except that it will not straddle high stumps. They will make as short turns as can be made with either of the other. We are using them on flat savannas and rolling pine land.

For all logging purposes we consider them far ahead of any other kind of vehicle used in this section of the country.

Very truly,

ELDER & BRADFORD.

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