Research: Sawmill Database

Alpha-Numeric Key: NA-44
Corporate Name: John Arthur and Adam Carroway
Local Name:
Owner Name: John Arthur and Adam Carroway.
Location: Intersection of FM 2256 and FM 229 (Kimball) (McClure's)
County: Nacogdoches
Years in Operation: 6 years
Start Year: 1905
End Year: 1910
Decades: 1900-1909,1910-1919
Period of Operation: About 1905 to 1910
Town: North of Woden (Kimball) (McClure's)
Company Town: 1
Peak Town Size: Unknown
Mill Pond:
Type of Mill: Rough lumber
Sawmill Pine Sawmill Hardwood Sawmill Cypress Sawmill
Planer Planer Only Shingle Paper
Plywood Cotton Grist Unknown
Other
Power Source: Steam
Horse Mule Oxen Water
Water Overshot Water Turbine Diesel Unknown
Pit Steam Steam Circular Steam Band
Gas Electricity Other
Maximum Capacity: 50000: 1906
Capacity Comments: 50,000 feet daily
Produced:
Rough Lumber Planed Lumber Crossties Timbers
Lathe Ceiling Unknown Beading
Flooring Paper Plywood Particle Board
Treated Other
Equipment: Sawmill
Company Tram:
Associated Railroads: Nacogdoches & Southeastern (company shortline and logging tram road of the Hayward Lumber Company)
Historicial Development: An unnamed sawmill ten miles from Hayward (eleven miles from Nacogdoches) is reported in the Tap-Line Case to have shipped its lumber traffic along the tracks of the Frost-Johnson company railway, the Nacogdoches and Southeastern. The sawmill was one belonging to John Arthur and Adam Carroway. The Beaumont Journal noted the new mill in Nacogdoches County (1905), ten miles east of Nacogdoches on the first stop between the town and the Angelina River. The community was an old town (thus not Woden: see below) but only had a post office, one store, and two residences. The community may have been Kimball, later known as McClure's.
Research Date: MCJ 02-10-96
Prepared By: M Johnson