| Alpha-Numeric Key: | SB-2 |
| Corporate Name: | Lightfoot and Hornsby |
| Local Name: | |
| Owner Name: | M. A. Lightfoot & J. T. Hornsby from 1905 to 1906. Lightfoot and Cass from 1906 to 1907. |
| Location: | Rush, five south of Bronson and west of tracks |
| County: | Sabine |
| Years in Operation: | 4 years |
| Start Year: | 1904 |
| End Year: | 1907 |
| Decades: | 1900-1909 |
| Period of Operation: | 1904 to 1907 |
| Town: | Rush |
| Company Town: | 1 |
| Peak Town Size: | Twenty-two tenant houses |
| Mill Pond: |  |
| Type of Mill: | Lumber
 Sawmill |
 Pine Sawmill |
Hardwood Sawmill |
Cypress Sawmill |
| Planer |
Planer Only |
Shingle |
Paper |
| Plywood |
Cotton |
Grist |
Unknown |
| Other |
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| Power Source: | Ames twin-steam crank-star 10-inch by 12-inch 40-horsepower engine; Ames 44-inch by 14-foot boiler.
| Horse |
Mule |
Oxen |
Water |
| Water Overshot |
Water Turbine |
Diesel |
Unknown |
| Pit |
Steam |
Steam Circular |
Steam Band |
| Gas |
Electricity |
Other |
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| Maximum Capacity: | 35000: 1906 |
| Capacity Comments: | 25,000 feet daily in 1905; 35,000 in 1906 |
| Produced: |
| Rough Lumber |
Planed Lumber |
Crossties |
Timbers |
| Lathe |
Ceiling |
Unknown |
Beading |
| Flooring |
Paper |
Plywood |
Particle Board |
| Treated |
Other |
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| Equipment: | Curtis Dixie ‘D' sawmill complete with two 54”-inch Curtis circular saws |
| Company Tram: | |
| Associated Railroads: | Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe |
| Historicial Development: | A Beaumont Enterprise article of April 30, 1905 reports that Lightfoot and Hornsby to have a mill at the new town of Rush on the Santa Fe. It employed twenty-five hands and had constructed about ten tenant houses. Lightfoot and Hornsby machinery included a Ames twin-steam crank-star 10-inch by 12-inch 40-horsepower engine; Ames 44-inch by 14-foot boiler, a Dixie ‘D' sawmill complete two 54-inch Curtis circular saws, four lumber dollies, and one slab carrier. This mill later employed sixty men, paying a monthly total wage of $4,000, and had twenty-two rent houses, and a stocked commissary worth of $3,000 in goods. Logging was done with animals, and the stock was hauled to railroad at Bronson.
Lightfoot and Walden, the filer at Rush, had a mill located in Nacogdoches County in 1903. Key personnel included M. A. Lightfoot, superintendent; A. C. Millicent, mill foreman; J. H. Walden, filer; John Ayres, sawyer; Porter Slay, engineer.
Until a new post office was established at Rush, all postal service for Rush's inhabitants was handled at the Pineland office. |
| Research Date: | MCJ 12-05-95 |
| Prepared By: | M. Johnson |