| Historicial Development: | The location of this mill is identified variously in Sabine County records as being six miles from Neuville and three miles from Short. Short is about three miles northwest of Neuville. The intersection of a southwesterly direction three miles from Short and northwesterly six miles from Neuville probably indicates the mill was located near Jericho, on Highway 711.
On February 13, 1906, the Gilchrists mortgaged to D. K Cason for $913 a #2 DeLoach sawmill, a 3-saw edger, a 54-inch circular saw, a steam engine, “located at Sanford McLevan's place 3 miles from Short, Texas.” On March 15, 1907, the Gilchrists mortgaged for $3,630 440,000 feet of lumber at their mill. On April 5, 1907, they mortgaged to Farmers Bank twelve yokes of oxen, three 4-wheel log wagons, and chains. On September 16, 1907, Barksdale Brothers took a mortgage from them for 800,000 feet of lumber, material stacked at the planer in Neuville, and all the lumber they could cut between September 16, 1907 and March 16, 1908. On November 21, 1907, Gilchrist & Son mortgaged to Farmers Bank “24 oxen, two 4-wheel log wagons” and all their lumber at Neuville and their mill “six miles west of Neuville, also our our sawmill & all fixtures.
J. C. Gilchrist was enumerated as a sawmiller at Precinct 2, residence 106, in the 1910 Shelby census. |