| Alpha-Numeric Key: | SA-170 |
| Corporate Name: | San Augustine Lumber Company, Inc. |
| Local Name: | |
| Owner Name: | San Augustine Lumber Company, Inc., John E. Anthony of Arkansas, and George Juniel and Nolan G Atchley of San Augustine. Frank Holmes, F. W. Martindale, W. G. Glover. Anderson Manufacturing Company with M. L. Anderson. |
| Location: | G. W. Wall survey, Abstract 336 on Highway 147 to Broaddus, south of San Augustine |
| County: | San Augustine |
| Years in Operation: | 30 years |
| Start Year: | 1959 |
| End Year: | 1988 |
| Decades: | 1950-1959,1960-1969,1970-1979,1980-1989 |
| Period of Operation: | 1959 to about 1988 |
| Town: | South of San Augustine |
| Company Town: | 0 |
| Peak Town Size: | Unknown |
| Mill Pond: |  |
| Type of Mill: | Rough and dressed lumber, and other manufacturing
 Sawmill |
 Pine Sawmill |
Hardwood Sawmill |
Cypress Sawmill |
| Planer |
Planer Only |
Shingle |
Paper |
| Plywood |
Cotton |
Grist |
Unknown |
| Other |
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| Power Source: | Steam circular and band, then electric
| 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: | |
| Capacity Comments: | Production of twelve million annual board feet of pine lumber in 1971 |
| Produced: |
| Rough Lumber |
Planed Lumber |
Crossties |
Timbers |
| Lathe |
Ceiling |
Unknown |
Beading |
| Flooring |
Paper |
Plywood |
Particle Board |
| Treated |
Other |
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| Equipment: | Band and circular, planing mill, dry kiln |
| Company Tram: | |
| Associated Railroads: | Unknown |
| Historicial Development: | M. L. Anderson Manufacturing Company, with a sawmill plant earlier established in Tenaha, Shelby County, bought sawmill machinery and equipment from the National Bank of Galveston for $10,000 in 1959. Anderson sold the mill to a Jasper County group of Martindale-Holmes-Glover in turn who sold to an investment group that organized under the name of San Augustine Lumber Company, Inc., which included John E. Anthony of Ouachita County, Arkansas, and George Juniel and Nolan G Atchley of San Augustine, and earlier T. F. Keasler and L. K. Walker. L. K. Walker and N. G. Atchley had interests in Leggett Lumber Company as well as L. K. Walker's involvement with Walker Brothers Lumber Company.
The San Augustine Lumber Company, subject to mortgages from Commercial State Bank for $14,422.80 and $200,000, secured its sawmill, equipment, office furniture, etc., in April 1964. It joined the Southern Pine Association in October, 1965. By 1966, the company employed between twenty-five and fifty workers.
Weldon Beasley recalled that this company had a dry kiln. It operated until the later 1980s.
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| Research Date: | MCJ 02-19-96 |
| Prepared By: | M. Johnson |