| Alpha-Numeric Key: | RU-3 |
| Corporate Name: | The Sabine River Lumber & Logging Co. |
| Local Name: | |
| Owner Name: | The Sabine River Lumber & Logging Co. New South Lumber Company. |
| Location: | Flanagan, southwest corner of Highways 2210 and 2294 |
| County: | Rusk |
| Years in Operation: | 10 years |
| Start Year: | 1905 |
| End Year: | 1914 |
| Decades: | 1900-1909,1910-1919 |
| Period of Operation: | 1905 to at least 1914 |
| Town: | Flanagan |
| Company Town: | 1 |
| Peak Town Size: | 69 in 1905. Forty tenant houses in 1908. |
| Mill Pond: |  |
| Type of Mill: | Rough and finished lumber
 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: | 50000: 1908 |
| Capacity Comments: | 50,000 feet daily in 1908 |
| Produced: |
| Rough Lumber |
Planed Lumber |
Crossties |
Timbers |
| Lathe |
Ceiling |
Unknown |
Beading |
| Flooring |
Paper |
Plywood |
Particle Board |
| Treated |
Other |
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| Equipment: | Sawmill, planing mill, electric light set, etc. |
| Company Tram: | |
| Associated Railroads: | Texas, Sabine Valley & Northwestern, became Texas & Gulf in 1905 Company tram road. |
| Historicial Development: | New South Lumber were described as manufacturers of yellow pine lumber at Flanagan in Rusk County in 1905 according to the Reference Book of the Lumbermen's Credit Association, January 1905 and again in 1907.
The Sabine River Lumber & Logging Company incorporated with $150,000 in capital stock in 1908. Ownership of Sabine River Lumber & Logging Company was A. P. Taylor, President; and A. Duetsch, Vice President; and A. A. Parsons, Secretary-Treasurer. They, in November 1908, executed a Deed of Trust to New South Lumber Company in order to refinance with New South Lumber, for $100,000 the old Flanagan sawmill plant at Flanagan, Rusk County. West Texas Bank & Trust Co held the old loan, dated earlier that year. The Deed of Trust describes the sawmill as a right-hand circular sawmill of 50,000 feet daily capacity. It had a planing mill, an electric light set, and forty tenant houses. The sawmill site was located on fifty acres owned by Webster Flanagan and wife. The plant used a steam logging tram road: twelve miles of 35# T-rails, a 26-ton and a 30-ton Mogul locomotive, eighteen logging cars, twenty-eight mules, two horses, twenty work steers, tents, boarding house at camp, etc.
By 1912 the county records do not reflect further New South Lumber Company activities, but the Sabine River Lumber & Logging Company was buying more timber land in the Flanagan area that year and in 1914 from F. T. Rembert.
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| Research Date: | MCJ 02-12-96 |
| Prepared By: | M Johnson |