| Equipment: | Circular sawmill with elevator, saw frame, carriage, edger, trimmer, log haul-up, platforms, and lumber trucks, and a planing mill. |
| Historicial Development: | E. W. Dunn, listed as W. E. Dunn in an article of 1906, had a small mill near Trawick in 1906 cutting 15,000 feet daily of lumber. J. H. Summers & Son, operating variously as Southern Mills Company or Cushing Lumber Company or Dunham Lumber Company, bought E. W. Dunn Lumber Company located at on the south side of the railroad tracks in the east part of Trawick from J. E. Countyman for $8,200. In November 1906, it received $2,000 operational money from J. H. Summers and in return agreed to sell it lumber through J. H. Summers. Although Dunham Lumber market its product through Summers, it could not escape indebtedness to him. In 1908, the Southern Mill Company of J. H. Summers bought the Dunham Lumber Company plants for $1,021.67 so that Dunham could satisfy his mortgages to Summers. The company had already bought plants of the Cushing Lumber Company south of Trawick and that of the J. W. Boatman, R. H. Muller, and J. E. Coates firm northeast of Trawick as well as the Morrison & McClendon planing mill at Dalmont.
Summers & Sons operated the sawmill in the Trawick area until selling part of it and removing the planing mill to Walker County. The Southern Industrial and Lumber Review noted in January 1909 that “J. H. Summers & Son, . . is being dismantled at present and moved to Walker County. The mill is a 50,000 ft affair, and has been cutting for many years at Trawick. . . . The plant included sawmill, planing mill, dry kilns and dry sheds.” The Walker County Bills of Sale records note that on March 10, 1909, J. H. Summers & Sons sold for $3,000 the entire lumber facility with the exception of the planing mill and its machinery. The sold equipment included a boiler, engine, elevator, saw frame, carriage, edger, trimmer, log haul-up, two large circular saws, shafting, mill houses, platforms, and lumber trucks. |