Many lumber companies operated in Mississippi in the early 19th century, among them the larger examples of R.M. Carrier at Sardis; Eastman-Gardiner and Gilchrist-Fordney at Laurel; J.J. Newman at Hattiesburg and Sum-rail; Mason at Gandsi; Foster Creekat Stephenson (Crosby); Goodyear at Picayune; E.L. Bruce at Brace; and Finkbine at Wiggins and D'Lo.Finkbine Lumber Co. was created when two millionaire businessmen from Iowa, brothers W.O. and E.C. Finkbine, recognized wealth in the form of timber, minerals, sand, and gravel in coastal Stone County. Such natural wealth was enticing to the entrepreneurs, who already owned a string of lumberyards throughout Iowa and a 17,000-acre wheat farm in south-central Canada. The main attraction in south Mississippi was the vast acreage of virgin timber, much of it longleaf pine.
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