| History: | R. R. Chany [also spelled “Chaney” and “Cheney”] had both a sawmill and a tram road at Haysland, 4.7 miles north of Carthage, before 1901. That year, Chany sold the sawmill and tramroad to William Cameron and Company. The tram equipment included two tram engines, six miles of tram road, and twenty oxen.
R.J. Tolstoy, in A History of William Cameron and Company, noted that William Cameron and Company acquired a mill at Haysland, in Panola County, the origins of which are unknown, in 1899. Panola County records reveal that the date was 1901 and that it was the William Cameron and Company bought the R. R. Chany sawmill, which included the sawmill and its equipment, a tram road, and tenant houses. Property included a 12”x16” Erie City engine and a 10”x12” steam engine, a sixty-horsepower boiler, a Bremmen & Company sawmill, a flooring machine, resaw, a planing mill. The millworkers had thirty-five tenant houses. Logging equipment included two tram engines, six miles of tram road, twenty oxen. There was also 500,000 feet of lumber at the millyard. Managers at Haysland were a Mr. McWilliams and a Mr. Sullivan. Tolstoy believes the mill closed in 1902. R. R. Chaney's name {Chaney, Chany, or Chany} was spelled variously in trade journals and county records. R. R. Chaney also had a sawmill at Posts Mill, near Beckville, in Panola County, from about 1888 to 1905, and at Longview in 1893. |