Research: Tram & Railroad Database

Code: 335
Corporate Name: G. C. Williams
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Incorporated:
Ownership: G. C. Williams G. C. Williams. Gebhart-Williams-Fenet Company. George W. Cavin Lumber Company with William Keeley, George W. Cavin, R. B. Morris.
Years of Operation: 1906 to 1909
Track Type:
Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
Track Length:
Locations Served: Cavin Nacogdoches
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Track Information:
Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
Equipment:
History: American Lumberman noted that the William Keeley, formerly of Tyler Car & Lumber Company, was operating a small sawmill on the Jasper & Eastern in 1906. The incorporators were George W. Cavin and R. B. Morris, who had organized the George W. Cavin Lumber Company with $15,000. Southern Industrial & Lumber Review reported that this mill was manufacturing 15,000 feet of lumber in 1906. Cavin was still advertising his Cavin Mill on the Santa Fe line in January 1909 in the review. The Southern Industrial and Lumber Review of July 20, 1909 noted that G. C. Williams had recently purchased the Cavin plant of George Cavin, located at the junction of the Santa Fe and Orange & Northwestern roads. A new mill is being built about two miles east of Cavin on the Santa Fe. Cutting capacity will be 50,000 feet daily. A planer, dry kilns, sheds, and a tram road are also being constructed. The market of the original mill, plus that of the new mill when it comes on line, is and will continued to be handled by the Gebhart-Williams-Fenet Company of Houston. The Southern Industrial and Lumber Review in March 1909 reported that George W. Cavin sold his sawmills in Nacogdoches and Angelina counties for $50,000 and paid $10,000 for the Kirbyville mill. [Cavin owned mills at Nivac Switch and Dalmont in Nacogdoches County and a sawmill at Warsaw in Angelina County. The information above is partially inaccurate. He sold out his interest in the Cushing mill by 1907, though he still may have had the small mill at Dalmont. He had owned a mill at Kirbyville since 1906; in other words, he did not buy it in 1909.