Research: Sawmill Database

Alpha-Numeric Key:	SJ-84
Corporate Name:	W. R. Wright
Local Name:
Owner Name:	W. R. Wright
Location:	Evergreen
County:	San Jacinto
Years in Operation:	7 years
Start Year:	1917
End Year:	1923
Decades:	1910-1919,1920-1929
Period of Operation:	1917 to 1923
Town:	Evergreen
Company Town:	1
Peak Town Size:	Unknown
Mill Pond:
Type of Mill:	Rough and finished lumber, cotton Sawmill Pine Sawmill Hardwood Sawmill Cypress Sawmill Planer Planer Only Shingle Paper Plywood Cotton Grist Unknown Other
Power Source:	Steam Horse Mule Oxen Water Water Overshot Water Turbine Diesel Unknown Pit Steam Steam Circular Steam Band Gas Electricity Other
Maximum Capacity:	10000: 1922
Capacity Comments:	10,000 feet daily in 1922
Produced:	Rough Lumber Planed Lumber Crossties Timbers Lathe Ceiling Unknown Beading Flooring Paper Plywood Particle Board Treated Other
Equipment:	Sawmill, grist mill, cotton gin, and two planers.
Company Tram:
Associated Railroads:	Unknown
Historicial Development:	W. R. Wright registered in the San Jacinto Chattel Mortgage Register, on August 4, 1917, a mortgage with San Jacinto State Bank at Shepherd with some planing machinery as collateral. He, on February 6, 1918, three acres of land at Evergreen, which contained a gin mill and a sawmill. Equipment for the sawmill included steam engines and boilers, saws, shaftings, pulleys, two planers, one a 26-inch surfacer and one 3-inch by 9-inch matcher. The mortgage was registered to the First National Bank of Cleveland for $325.85. On July 10, 1922, Wright mortgaged to the First National Bank of Cleveland his sawmill, planing mill, grist mill, and cotton gin, boiler, sheds, belting, shafting, pulleys, and the three acres of land on which the mill sat at Evergreen. He remortgaged the mill on March 10, 1923, to the First National Bank of Cleveland.
Research Date:	JKG 6-24-94, MCJ 02-23-96
Prepared By:	J Gerland, M Johnson