Research: Sawmill Database

Alpha-Numeric Key:	BO-90
Corporate Name:	Twin City Lumber Company
Local Name:
Owner Name:	Twin City Lumber Company of Texarkana, with R. L. Trigg and W. W. Welch.
Location:	Texarkana
County:	Bowie
Years in Operation:	5 years
Start Year:	1904
End Year:	1908
Decades:	1900-1909
Period of Operation:	1904 to 1908
Town:	Texarkana
Company Town:	2
Peak Town Size:	33,000 in 1928
Mill Pond:
Type of Mill:	Finished lumber Sawmill Pine Sawmill Hardwood Sawmill Cypress Sawmill Planer Planer Only Shingle Paper Plywood Cotton Grist Unknown Other
Power Source:	Steam engine and boiler Horse Mule Oxen Water Water Overshot Water Turbine Diesel Unknown Pit Steam Steam Circular Steam Band Gas Electricity Other
Maximum Capacity:
Capacity Comments:	Unknown
Produced:	Rough Lumber Planed Lumber Crossties Timbers Lathe Ceiling Unknown Beading Flooring Paper Plywood Particle Board Treated Other
Equipment:	Planing mill at Texarkana
Company Tram:
Associated Railroads:	Kansas City Southern
Historicial Development:	The Southern Industrial and Lumber Review noted in April 1904 that the Twin City Lumber Company of Texarkana incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000. Twin City Lumber bought the planing mill of J. B. Hubbard and Louie Kosminksy at Texarkana in 1904 for $5,200. Property included a steam engine, a boiler, a planer, and a pony planer. In 1905, the company was buying land adjacent to the tracks of the Texarkana & Fort Smith. It is unknown if this was the predecessor to the Twin City Lumber & Shingle Company reported in 1928 by the Southern Lumberman's Directory of American Saw Mills and Planing Mills. Nacogdoches County records note that Twin City Lumber was owned by R. L. Trigg and W. W. Welch of Texarkana. The company owned several thousand acres about two miles south of Martinsville along the Attoyac River in eastern Nacogdoches County. It sold all of its tracts of timber in Nacogdoches County to Claud Field of Missouri in February 1907.
Research Date:	MCJ 03-08-96
Prepared By:	M. Johnson