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THE H. WESTON COMPANY FLEET	(jy
Mildred Otis Fountain
The H. Weston Lumber Company's largest tug boat was the EDGAR which was sixty-five feet in length, with a beam of fifteen feet and a draft of nine feet. This tug was almost continuously in operation.
On June 20, 1922, the largest tow of lumber that was ever taken out of Logtown was nine barges containing a little over a million feet of lumber. This tow was handled by one tug boat, the EDGAR, and was taken to Gulfport. From there it was shipped to Buenos Aires, Argentina on the S S Celaeno, a 2, 153 ton vessel.
The^/Weston Liam^r Company also owned the tug boats MARY and SARAH. The MARY was sixty feet in length, with a beam of fourteen feet and draft of eight feet; the SARAH had a capacity of 75,000 feet of timber.
The lumber company began its operation with four two masted schooners transporting lumber to New Orleans and Gulfport. The largest, LOIS had the capacity of 40,000 cords of wood. These schooners were used to transport lumber before the Civil War, and for a considerable length of time after.
Later the company used steamboats, with the engine, pilot house