| Alpha-Numeric Key: | MS-2 |
| Corporate Name: | Beasely & Porter Sawmill |
| Local Name: | |
| Owner Name: | Beasely & Porter Sawmill |
| Location: | Daingerfield |
| County: | Morris |
| Years in Operation: | 2 years |
| Start Year: | 1879 |
| End Year: | 1880 |
| Decades: | 1870-1879,1880-1889 |
| Period of Operation: | 1879 to 1880 |
| Town: | Daingerfield |
| Company Town: | 2 |
| Peak Town Size: | 1000 in 1905, 4,000 in 1928; 1000 in 1934 |
| Mill Pond: |  |
| Type of Mill: | Pine lumber
 Sawmill |
Pine Sawmill |
 Hardwood Sawmill |
Cypress Sawmill |
| Planer |
Planer Only |
Shingle |
Paper |
| Plywood |
Cotton |
Grist |
Unknown |
| Other |
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| Power Source: | 24-horsepower steam engine and boiler
| 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: | |
| Capacity Comments: | 240,000 feet of lumber during the reporting period of the Census |
| Produced: |
| Rough Lumber |
Planed Lumber |
Crossties |
Timbers |
| Lathe |
Ceiling |
Unknown |
Beading |
| Flooring |
Paper |
Plywood |
Particle Board |
| Treated |
Other |
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| Equipment: | Circular sawmill |
| Company Tram: | |
| Associated Railroads: | Unknown |
| Historicial Development: | Beasely & Porter is listed in a railroad journal of 1880 as having a pine sawmill at Daingerfield. They had moved their sawmill by 1880 from Titus County (where they had been enumerated by the 1870 Census) to Daingerfield, Morris County, where it was enumerated in Precinct 1 by the census enumerator. The circular sawmill was powered by a 24-horsepower steam engine and boiler. Beasely & Porter employed ten men at peak production and eight normally, paying them $.75 to $2.50 daily for ten-hour days, winter and summer; the workers received a total wage of $500. During six months at half-time production, the sawmill, from $1,200 worth of supplies and sawlogs, milled 240,000 feet of lumber worth a value of $2,400.
Logging was done on Boggy Creek.
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| Research Date: | MCJ 04-02-96 |
| Prepared By: | M. Johnson |