| Historicial Development: | Sabine County records reveal that E. D. Watson and brothers J. B. and John D. Christensen owned sawmills at Brookeland and on the Henry Nichols survey in Sabine County, and at Frankston, in Anderson County. By May 1916, J. B. Christensen had bought out his brother and E. D. Watson.
This researcher presumes that Talltimber was the name of the company that J. B. Christensen organized for stock issue in 1917, for that is when Talltimber Lumber starts appearing in the Sabine County official records Talltimber Lumber Company, this researcher presumes, had succeeded to the properties of Watson-Christensen of Hemphill, with mills at Birdwell''s Switch, Brookeland, and the old Watson-Christensen mill on the Henry Nichols Survey, about four miles east and south of Hemphill, now named Talltimber. In each of those years, it contracted to build tenant houses at Talltimber.
Later in 1920, Talltimber was in financial straits. The Sabine County sheriff had a writ of attachment against the mill for an unpaid labor bill.
By 1917, J. B. Christensen, retaining the name of Watson-Christensen Lumber Company, was issuing stock. Equipment at the mill included a sawmill, a shingle mill, a sawmill carriage, an 80-inch circular saw, a shingle machine, two shingle saws, a boiler and steam engine, and one Jeames and Ohlen 54” circular saw.
Talltimber was not listed at Frankston in the 1915 issue of Directory of American Sawmills.
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