Research: Tram & Railroad Database

Code:	221
Corporate Name:	Attoyac River Lumber Company
Folk Name:	“the High, Dry, and Windy”
Incorporated:
Ownership:	Attoyac River Lumber Company
Years of Operation:	1908 to 1918
Track Type:	Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
Track Length:	Unknown
Locations Served:	Mayo, Press Nacogdoches
Counties of Operation:	Nacogdoches and possibly Shelby
Line Connections:
Track Information:	Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
Equipment:	Tram cars and engines in 1914
History:	A Nacogdoches County Deed of Trust Record (Vol 7: August 11, 1914, 209) noted that the the Attoyac River Lumber Company was located at Mayotown, about seven and a half miles northeast of Nacogdoches, on the east side of Houston East & West Texas. It had a sawmill, planing mill, commissary, cottages, and one- and two-story houses for employees, tram with engines and cars. Carter had a $300,000 mortgage on timber lands. The East Texas Sawmill Data Base reports that the Attoyac River Lumber Company was one of several lumber companies owned by J. P. Carter in Nacogdoches County after 1900. Mayo, located along the tracks of the Houston East & West Texas (now the Southern Pacific), was a mill town for almost fourteen years, complete with quarters, hotels, commissaries, and schools provided by the company. Most of the company lands were east of Mayo and the railroad, in the bottom lands of the Attoyac River, which divided Nacogdoches and Shelby counties. The company owned and operated a tram road from the mill area into the company pineries. The Attoyac River Lumber Company operated a tram road from Press, according to Keeling.