| Alpha-Numeric Key: | NA-141 |
| Corporate Name: | Howeth & Howeth |
| Local Name: | |
| Owner Name: | W. E. and C. W. Howeth. Keith Lumber Company. |
| Location: | La Cerda Station, or Keith's Switch, nine miles southeast of Nacogdoches on Texas & New Orleans |
| County: | Nacogdoches |
| Years in Operation: | 2 years |
| Start Year: | 1903 |
| End Year: | 1904 |
| Decades: | 1900-1909 |
| Period of Operation: | 1903 to 1904 |
| Town: | la Cerda Station, or Keith's Switch |
| Company Town: | 2 |
| Peak Town Size: | Unknown |
| Mill Pond: |  |
| Type of Mill: | Sawtimber and sawlogs
 Sawmill |
Pine Sawmill |
Hardwood Sawmill |
Cypress Sawmill |
| Planer |
Planer Only |
Shingle |
Paper |
| Plywood |
Cotton |
Grist |
Unknown |
 Other |
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| Power Source: | Steam
| 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: | Unknown |
| Produced: |
| Rough Lumber |
Planed Lumber |
Crossties |
Timbers |
| Lathe |
Ceiling |
Unknown |
Beading |
| Flooring |
Paper |
Plywood |
Particle Board |
| Treated |
Other |
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| Equipment: | Logging equipment included tram rails and locomotive |
| Company Tram: | |
| Associated Railroads: | Texas & New Orleans |
| Historicial Development: | W. E. and C. W. Howeth were Nacogdoches logging contractors. In November 1902, they bought a logging outfit from H. L. Gray: twenty-four mules and fourteen sets of harnesses, and four log wagons. The following July, the brothers contracted with Keith Lumber Company to cut, load, and carry the latter's sawtimber from its holdings in Nacogdoches County to Beaumont. In return, Keith Lumber Company agreed to provide a locomotive and construct a tram bed into the Keith Lumber pineries.
A newspaper article in June 1904 reported that La Cerda station at Keith's Switch was located two miles southeast of the Turner & Nabers mill along the Texas & New Orleans railroad, a total of nine miles from Nacogdoches. Sawtimber was harvested by a tram road into the pineries from the main road, where it was loaded onto cars and shipped on the railroad to Voth, near Pine Island Bayou, more than a hundred miles, to be milled. |
| Research Date: | MCJ 02-10-96 |
| Prepared By: | M Johnson |