| Alpha-Numeric Key: | JA-6 |
| Corporate Name: | Ohio and Texas Lumber Company |
| Local Name: | Applegate Mill |
| Owner Name: | H. D. Applegate and W. W. Wilson. Trotti Hardwood Company. Dr. W. E. Trotti. Jasper County Lumber Company. Applegate Lumber Company. Ohio and Texas Lumber Company. |
| Location: | Applegate, three miles north of Roganville on the Santa Fe |
| County: | Jasper |
| Years in Operation: | 10 years |
| Start Year: | 1900 |
| End Year: | 1909 |
| Decades: | 1900-1909 |
| Period of Operation: | Trotti, 1900; Applegate and Wilson, 1905 to 1909 |
| Town: | Applegate |
| Company Town: | 1 |
| Peak Town Size: | 300 in 1909. The Trotti mill employed perhaps as many as 150 men under the Applegate-Wilson ownership.
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| Mill Pond: |  |
| Type of Mill: | Hardwood mill for cutting ties
 Sawmill |
 Pine Sawmill |
Hardwood Sawmill |
Cypress Sawmill |
| Planer |
Planer Only |
Shingle |
Paper |
| Plywood |
Cotton |
Grist |
Unknown |
| Other |
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| Power Source: | 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: | 25000: 1904 50000: 1908 |
| Capacity Comments: | 25,000 board feet before 1905; 50,000 after Applegate and Wilson ownership |
| Produced: |
| Rough Lumber |
Planed Lumber |
Crossties |
Timbers |
| Lathe |
Ceiling |
Unknown |
Beading |
| Flooring |
Paper |
Plywood |
Particle Board |
| Treated |
Other |
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| Equipment: | Single circular |
| Company Tram: | |
| Associated Railroads: | Gulf, Colorado, & Santa Fe at Roganville |
| Historicial Development: | Dr. W. E. Trotti, who during the 1890's had owned sawmills in Tyler County and elsewhere, built a small sawmill about three miles north of Roganville on the Santa Fe railroad about 1900. The name of the company was the Trotti Hardwood Company. The Powell brothers had a relationship with the mill, for in the Santa Fe circular for 1904, although it lists no Trotti mill on its Beaumont lines and no mill(s) located at a town called Applegate, the circular does list the Powell brothers as operating a 30,000 “Oak Lumber” mill, “located three and a half miles north of Rogan.” Southern Industrial and Lumber Review recorded that Jasper Lumber Company had a mill at Applegate. On June 9, 1906, the American Lumberman noted that Texas and Ohio Lumber Company, which already had a mill nearby north of Roganville, was “to take on the properties of the Jasper Lumber Company” at a sale in Beaumont. The Journal reported on June 18, 1905, that H. D. Applegate Lumber bought out Trotti “sometime ago.” The Trotti mill was cutting 25,000 feet daily; new plans would it increase the cut to 50,000. The Trotti mill, noted by a newspaper to be three miles from Roganville, was sold to H. D. Applegate and W. W. Wilson in January 1905. The new ownership (Wilson, Applegate, and Trotti) increased the mill's capacity at Applegate to about 50,000 feet daily and may have also used company names of Applegate Lumber Company and/or Jasper Lumber Company. The company paid a total of $383.23 in taxes in 1908 on property rendered a value of $43,400. The property included steam engines, boilers, and manufacturing tools. The company also rendered taxes on two and a half miles of tram road that year. On May 4, 1908 the business was reorganized as the Texas & Ohio Lumber Company, which was dissolved on April 6, 1909, resulting in the company's abandoning the mill site and liquidating its assets. The J.F. Keith Company acquired the lands of the bankrupt company.
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| Research Date: | JKG 8-6-93, MCJ 12-07-95 |
| Prepared By: | J. Gerland, M Johnson |