The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, Volume 5, Number 1, November 1969 Page: 23
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JOHN HENRY KIRBY - MAN AND LEGEND
in east Texas with a daily cut of 100,000 board feet. George A. Adams bought
Dennis Call's interest in the fall of 1897 and shortly thereafter leased the mill
to the Industrial Lumber Company of Beaumont, which was already operating
mills at Silsbee and Carraway as well as at Vinton and Oakdale, Louisiana.138
The Kirbyville Lumber Company at Kirbyville in Jasper County (Mill H),
which reached the Neches River over the Texas Tram road, cut ties and tim-
bers and had a capacity of 35,000 board feet.139
The Roganville Lumber Company (Mill J) at Roganville in Newton
County on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad, and connecting with the
Sabine River over the Hooker Tram and the Newton County Tram roads, had
been built by J. T. Hooker and his brother W. T. Hooker in 1899. Its daily
capacity was 40,000 feet.140
The J. F. Keith Lumber Company (Mill K) at Sharon, alias Ariola, in
Hardin County, had begun operations in 1886 as the Hooks Lumber Company
with its mill on the Sabine and East Texas Railroad (later, the Texas and New
Orleans) north of Beaumont. After the national depression of 1894-95 the
Hooks interest was transferred to Jehu Frank Keith of Beaumont. The mill's
capacity was 75,000 board feet.141
The Village Mills Company in Tyler county (Mill L) thirty-six miles north
of Beaumont and connecting with the Neches River over the Village Tram
road was a single circular saw mill which employed about 250 men and had
a daily capacity of 85,000 board feet.142
The firm of Doucette and Chapman of Woodville in Tyler County (Mill
M), began operations with a mill built by Peter A. Doucette, who came to
Texas in 1879 from Three Rivers, Province of Quebec, Canada. His mill was
located on a site adjoining the Texas and New Orleans Railroad north of Wood-
ville and had been given by him the name of his French family. In 1899 he
sold his mill at Doucette and with Lee J. Chapman of Woodville, built the
plant subsequently conveyed to Kirby. This latter company employed about
250 men and had a daily capacity of 30,000 board feet.143
The Southwestern Lumber Company at Mobile in northwest Tyler County
(Mill N), located on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, had been the
property of Mr. Sam L. Allen, pioneer and patriot of Houston, before it passed
into the hands of Dr. William Edward Trotti. The latter was the American
descendant of an Italian family of Lombardy who for generations had lived in
138Ibid., pp. 67-70.
139Ibid., pp. 70-71.
14OIbid., pp. 71-72.
141Ibid., p. 72.
142Ibid., pp. 72-73.
143Ibid., pp. 73-74.23
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