Southampton-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newspapers.....Liquidation, 1927 

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"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 5, No. 187, Thurs., Oct. 27, 1927, 1927, p. 1 

OLD LUMBER CO. LEAVING FIELD 

Surry Lumber Company Ends Its Long Career as Cutter of Timber 
    in This Section of the Nation.

  After 42 years of active operations in the counties of Surry, Sussex, 
Southampton and Isle of Wight mainly, the Surry Lumber Company, probably the 
largest industry of its kind in Tidewater when at its peak, is liquidating its 
affairs in Virginia, preparatory to going out of business.  This movement has 
been in progress for the past six months or more and is occassioned because the 
timber lands of the concern have about been exhausted. 

  The Surry Lumber Company owns the Sussex-Southampton Railway Co., which 
operates a narrow-gauge railroad from Scotland Wharf opposite Jamestown Island 
to Wakefield.  This line is also on the market.  The entire property is 
controlled by Baltimore capitalists.  It has given employment to hundreds of 
people for a generation and men who have never worked for any other employer 
have been discharged as the concern gradually closed down its many saw mills, 
planing mills and logging camps. 

  The village of Dendron, where three large saw mills and the principal 
offices of the concern were located, and Sedley, the logging center, are both 
hard hit by the cessation of operations.  Their chief dependence was upon the 
activities of the lumber people, nearly everybody being employed by it or 
otherwise dependent upon its operations. 

  It has been under the management of the Rogers brothers since it began 
operations, there originally having been four of them, Edward Rogers, general 
superintendent; Ernest Rogers, superintendent of mills; Arthur Rogers, sales 
manager and in charge of offices, and Phillip Rogers, superintendent of the 
logging department.  At the death of the latter he was succeeded by J.C. 
Causey, Jr., of Suffolk, who is now assisting in winding up the affairs of the 
concern. 

  The Surry Lumber Company owns many acres of land in Surry county in 
particular and has large holdings in the other counties mentioned above.  They 
have built many miles of railway and it is supposed that this together with 
the cut-over land will go on the market. 


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