| Historicial Development: | In 1906 J. L. Thomas mortgaged for B. L. Ferguson's Nagle portable engine and boiler, and a sawmill and carriage from J. Simp Miller, and all the lumber cut on the A. T. Polk tract.
For $2,500, in 1921, Bland & Fisher bought a sawmill and site on a mortgage from J. L. Thomas, who had operated the mill earlier. The sale included all machinery and buildings, including the boiler, engine, saw mill, husk, carriage, edger, and trimmers. G. B. Fisher bought out John Henry Bland, the son of J. J. Bland, in September 1925, which included the L. Thomas machinery and the boiler and engine that Bland had bought earlier from Charles Perkins.
By 1937, G. B. Fisher had bought out J. H. Bland and had added a planing mill. In that year, he sold his sawmill and planing mill to Fred T. Fisher who bought another planing mill and saw mill the year earlier about 1/2 mile from the original Bland & Fisher site.
Fisher Lumber had another mill about a half mile to the north.
Ernest Nash, an oldtime area resident, recalled that the Fisher mills operated until the 1950s and that Fisher Lumber Company provided tenant housing.
On 30 March 1948, the Sturgis Lumber Company, with plants at Hemphill and Jasper, sold to M. L. Spinks the old Fisher Lumber Company sawmill and planing mill, which Sturgis Lumber had bought eighteen days earlier. |