| Alpha-Numeric Key: | SH-6 |
| Corporate Name: | Anderson Manufacturing Company |
| Local Name: | |
| Owner Name: | M. L. Anderson, president. R. D. Duke. Albert Burns Lumber Company. |
| Location: | Tenaha |
| County: | Shelby |
| Years in Operation: | 45 years |
| Start Year: | 1952 |
| End Year: | 1996 |
| Decades: | 1950-1959,1960-1969,1970-1979,1980-1989,1990-1999 |
| Period of Operation: | 1952 to 1996 |
| Town: | Tenaha |
| Company Town: | 2 |
| Peak Town Size: | Unknown |
| Mill Pond: |  |
| Type of Mill: | Lumber, studs, dimension, upper grades, flooring, paneling, manufactured siding.
 Sawmill |
Pine Sawmill |
Hardwood Sawmill |
Cypress Sawmill |
| Planer |
 Planer Only |
Shingle |
Paper |
| Plywood |
Cotton |
Grist |
Unknown |
| Other |
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| Power Source: | Diesel in 1940s. Steam, electric (1958); power furnished by public utility in 1966. Steam.
| 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: | 58000: 1958 40000: 1975 |
| Capacity Comments: | From 58,000 feet daily in 1958 and 40,000 feet daily in 1975 |
| Produced: |
| Rough Lumber |
Planed Lumber |
Crossties |
Timbers |
| Lathe |
Ceiling |
Unknown |
Beading |
| Flooring |
Paper |
Plywood |
Particle Board |
| Treated |
Other |
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| Equipment: | Saw and planing mill with circular, barkers, edgers, planers, chippers, resaws. An 8-ft band saw was added in 1975. |
| Company Tram: | |
| Associated Railroads: | Southern Pacific and Gulf, Coast, and Santa Fe |
| Historicial Development: | Marshall Anderson, with two partners, bought the R. D. Duke sawmill in December, 1945. The company operated as the Construction Supply Co with Anderson as the operations manager. He bought out the partners in 1949. M. Cooper told Vernon L. Beasley that he believes that the Anderson operation in the 1940s as a diesel-powered circular sawmill and planer plant. In 1952, Anderson sold to Center Woods Products Company the planing mill, including the building, planers, blowers, and a Ross lift truck. By 1958, products included ninety percent pine lumber and ten percent oak lumber. Logging operations used twenty-five horses and eleven contract trucks. The death of plant manager Lonnie B. Anderson in 1962 demonstrated the inherent dangerousness of sawmilling. He was struck by a piece of machinery.
In 1966, company employed 118 personnel. It also owned following mill equipment: dry kilns, log stackers, lift trucks. Products were made only of shortleaf pine. In 1973, the plant produced about 1.5 million board feet, an average of about 6,000 feet daily. The company still did some of its own logging and had expanded operations to cover cypress and hardwood lumber production.
The company has been listed repeatedly in forest-product directories, the latest in the 1987 Directory of Forest Products Industries In Texas. |
| Research Date: | MCJ 02-29-96 |
| Prepared By: | M. Johnson |