Research: Sawmill Database

Alpha-Numeric Key:	PA-113
Corporate Name:	Pine Tree Lumber Company
Local Name:
Owner Name:	Pine Tree Lumber Company. R. Turner.
Location:	Beckville, about nine miles northwest of Carthage
County:	Panola
Years in Operation:	3 years
Start Year:	1903
End Year:	1905
Decades:	1900-1909
Period of Operation:	1903 to 1905
Town:	Beckville
Company Town:	1
Peak Town Size:	606 in 1905
Mill Pond:
Type of Mill:	Rough and dressed lumber Sawmill Pine Sawmill Hardwood Sawmill Cypress Sawmill Planer Planer Only Shingle Paper Plywood Cotton Grist Unknown Other
Power Source:	An Ames boiler and steam engine Horse Mule Oxen Water Water Overshot Water Turbine Diesel Unknown Pit Steam Steam Circular Steam Band Gas Electricity Other
Maximum Capacity:
Capacity Comments:	Unknown
Produced:	Rough Lumber Planed Lumber Crossties Timbers Lathe Ceiling Unknown Beading Flooring Paper Plywood Particle Board Treated Other
Equipment:	Bremmen sawmill and planing mill
Company Tram:
Associated Railroads:	Texas & Gulf Railway
Historicial Development:	Panola County records list a mortgage from a J. Turner to the Pine Tree Lumber Company in 1903. For a $1,200 mortgage, Pine Tree Lumber received an Ames boiler and steam engine, a planer, an edger, and a Bremmen & Co sawmill. During the same year, the company mortgaged with the Hooper Singleton Lumber Company of Jefferson County, in the amount of $1,300, two hundred thousand feet of lumber, an engine, a boiler, a sawmill, an edger, a planer, two horses, ten mules, three log wagons, and eight oxen. In 1904 the company sold the sawmill to Robinson and Oden for $510.14 on October 27 and the tubular boiler earlier for $250 on August 4. The Lumbermen's Credit Association noted in 1905 the Pine Tree Lumber Company saw and planing mills at Beckville in 1905. The company had a credit rating of “slow pay.” The company was not listed in the 1907 LCA edition.
Research Date:	JKG 12-10-93, MCJ 02-08-96
Prepared By:	J. Gerland, M. Johnson