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Southern Missouri | There were old scuttle butts of history that claimed that project was initiated entirely by the big money railroad people of that era that had the congress and senate in their back pocket to be able to build narrow gauge railways into all that area and create thousands of saw mills to make cross ties of oak and cypress timber that would much better stand the test of time as the trans continent railways were being thoroughly ran across several states at that time that had mainly pine timber that didn’t make good cross ties and there was probably something to that as the railroad companies names are on many thousands of acres of old abstracts of the now highly productive irrigated farmland that now covers that area, nearly all my grandparents worked in those sawmilling operations and bought land that they had at one time worked on sawmilling timber to send to the railroads , once the railroads got their timber they quickly sold off the stump land
Edited by sloughclub 1/13/2024 10:04
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Swamp drainage machines
