This information was obtained from the Texas Foresty Service.
 

A. B. Rucker- 1878 to  1884
A. B. Rucker. A. H. Rucker and J. H. Rucker. L. J. Jackson

A. B. and J. H. Rucker sawmilled for many years at Longview, together and independently. The Ruckers gave a promissory note in the sum of $287.50 to Atlas Engine Works for equipment including a 10-inch by 20-inch steam engine in 1878. A later sale to L. G. Jackson apparently fell through. The A. B. Rucker mill was listed in a railroad directory in 1884 at Longview.

A. E. Morgan-1920 to 1929
Location: Longview: Northcutt and Methvin streets

A. E. Morgan was operating a circular sawmill and planing mill at Longview in 1928.

A. V. Haigwood- Owner/Company Affiliation: A. V. Haigwood
 1957 to 1966                  Location: Gladewater

Albert Sanders and Will Pruitt- Owner/Company Affiliation: Albert Sanders and Will Pruitt
1906                                                                  Location: Will Pruitt's place
They contracted with Flewellen & Castleberry to ship their rough cut to the Flewellen & Castleberry planer at Longview Station.

B. K. Smith- Owner/Company Affiliation: B. K. Smith
1880 Location: Longview
The 1880 directory gives the county as Gregg, Upshur, or Harrison; therefore, this mill was probably near Longview.

Blackburn & Lucy-Blackburn Taylor & Company became Blackburn & Lucy by 1907
1905 to 1907                         Location: Elderville

Bovier Grayden- Owner/Company Affiliation: Bovier Grayden
1879 to 1880                        Location: Precinct 6 with Longview as the post office
Power Source: 80-horsepower steam engine Equipment: Sawmill with two circular saws and an 8-saw gang. During the reporting period, the sawmill cut 2,400,000 board feet of lumber, valued at $20,000, from raw materials worth $9,200. Twenty to thirty men worked at the mill and in the woods near the mill; they were paid from $1.30 to $4.00 per ten-hour day; they were paid a total combined wage of $6,000. Logging was done adjacent to the Sabine River, and the sawtimber was floated in rafts down the Sabine.

Brasher & Campbell-Owner/Company Affiliation: J. S. Brasher and J. N. Campbell. J. S.                  1894-1907                                         Brasher and R W Wynn, Jr
Location: Three miles south of Gladewater at Camp Switch next to the Texas & Pacific
They sold a bill of lumber there in 1894 to W. R. Bass and A. B. Rucker. J. N. Campbell replaced Wynn in the firm before 1896. In 1896, the firm of Brasher & Campbell sold some lumber to J. N. Campbell in order to clear indebtedness of the firm to Campbell.

Carter's Mill-Owner/Company Affiliation: C. B. Carter & Son or Carter & Co
1879-1880                   Location: Precinct 3 at Carter's Mill, office in Longview
Capacity Comments: Produced 2,500,000 feet during the reporting period of the Census
Power Source: Steam    The census enumerated the value of the mill as $23,000 and cutting two and a half million feet of lumber during the reporting period of twelve months for a gross value of $27,500, from $14,150 worth of raw materials. The mill employed fifteen to thirty-men to operate the mill at three-quarters time for the year. They were paid a combined total wage of $6,000 at a rate of $1.35 to $3.00 per day per eleven-hour shift. The company did its own logging in the vicinity of the mill.

C C Burns-Owner/Company Affiliation: C. C. Burns
1880

C C FORD- still operating 1907
Location :  Longview

Camp Brothers----steam powered---The Camp Brothers sawmill was listed at Longview in an 1880 Chicago lumberman directory with the county either Gregg, Harrison, or Upshur. The mill was probably located at Camp Switch, about three miles south of Gladewater, in Gregg County.

Campbell & Philer-----1907

The sawmill firm of Campbell & Philer appeared in the 1907 LCA listing. This Philer may have been one of the Philers operating a sawmill and cotton gin in Panola County during the same time period.

Castleberry & Flewellen Planing Mill Company-1879 to 1915
Location:  Longview: Second and Cotton streets
1,000,000 board feet produced during the reporting period of the Census in 1880. In 1893, 15,000 feet daily. 20,000 feet daily in 1915.  Finished products of yellow pine, red oak, and white oak.
Power source: 1880: 30-horsepower steam engine. 1906: 80-horsepower steam engine
Equipment: 1880: three-saw gang and two circular saws. 1905: Sawmill and later a planing mill
The Costleberry (Castleberry) sawmill was listed in an 1880 Chicago lumberman directory, and the census of 1880 identifies the mill as being in Precinct 1 with Longview as its post office. The records reveal that the mill used a 30-horsepower steam engine to run a three-saw gang and two circular saws. Thirty men worked eleven-hour days for daily wages from $1.35 to $4.00. They were paid a combined total wage of $10,000. During the reporting period, the mill cut 1,100,000 feet of lumber, valued at $18,180, from $15,000 worth of raw materials. The woods crew did its logging in "Eastern Texas." The mill was reported in the Galveston Weekly News of April 13, 1893, to be cutting 15,000 feet daily. The sawmill firm was known as Castleberry & Lawrence in the 1905 and the 1907 Reference Book of the Lumbermen's Credit Association ratings. The firm absorbed J. J. Flewellen's shingle and lumber company at Longview, and changed the name to Castleberry and Flewellen Planing Mill of Longview. The company also had expanded to Gladewater by 1907. By 1915, a plant was no longer listed at Gladewater in the company name. A map published in 1906 places the mill in Longview ninety-five feet southwest of 2d Street and the International & Great Northern tracks. The plant included a sawmill, a machine shop, and an 80-horsepower steam engine. One of its planing mill customers in 1906, according to Gregg County records, was the sawmill firm of Sanders and Pruitt. In 1915, according to the Directory of American Sawmills, Castleberry & Flewellen had become a planing company only, cutting 20,000 feet daily of pine and oak. According to Webb, the Longview area had settlers before the Texas Revolution. Early a plantation area, its location was considered estimable by officers of the the Texas & Pacific Railroad, who gave it the name of Longview because of "the long-distance view . . . from the village."

Cheyley & Bobo----1893
Location: Longview: Ward and Memphis streets
In 1893, Cheyley & Bobo were cutting 25,000 feet daily of lumber at Longview.

Clark & Angwin---1877-1882
Location---unknown
The Marshall Manufacturing Company on March 1, 1877, sold a re-saw and a planer to Clark & Angwin. This mortgage was cancelled on January 4, 1882. The firm of Clark & Angwin was probably a planing mill operation located at or near Longview and adjacent to the tracks of the Texas & Pacific.

Cooper, Hardin, & Co  - 1878-1880 -  owners or affiliates: . F. J. McCord and John M. Duncan. William Keechle. P. E. King. Jacob Mauthe.
Location-Eight miles west of Longview at Merrill Lake

Jacob Mauthe had two steam sawmills located in Gregg County in the latter 1870s. The Monkey Lake Mill, or Neal Mill, was located about eight miles west of Longview on the Alvice tract of land at Merrill Lake. The second was a portable sawmill identified as the "Mauthe Mill No. 2," and it was situated at the International & Great Northern crossing over the Sabine River. Mauthe sold both mills to William Keechle for $2,500. The sale also included forty oxen and five log wagons. These mills were transferred from Wm Keechle to Cooper, Hardin & Co (John W. Cooper, A. H. S. Hardin, and French Cooper). They sold both mills and 1,650 acres to F. J. McCord and John M. Duncan for $19,500. Ownership of the mills becomes confusing. A railroad directory in 1880 lists both Jacob Mauthe and Hardin, Cooper & Co at Gladewater but not McCord and Duncan.

 Also had sawmill at: Armstrong tract of land on the north bank of the Sabine River.

Equipment: Sawmill, two lath machines, three planers, two resaws, a band saw, a spoke lathe, three sets of blacksmith tools, three mules, ninety-six oxen, two two-horse wagons, five tram cars and sets of harness, and a log turner.

Jacob Mauthe had two steam sawmills located in Gregg County in the latter 1870s. The first one was known as the Monkey Lake Mill, or Neal Mill, located about eight miles west of Longview on the Alvice tract of land at Merrill Lake. The second was known as Mauthe's Mill No 2: this was located on the Armstrong tract of land on the north bank of the Sabine River. Its equipment included steam machinery, the sawmill, two lath machines, three planers, two resaws, a band saw, a spoke lathe, three sets of blacksmith tools, three mules, ninety-six oxen, two two-horse wagons, five tram cars and sets of harness, and a log turner. Mauthe sold his two steam sawmills to William Keechle for $2,500. The sale also included forty oxen, five log wagons. The Monkey Lake mill of Mauthe's had come into the hands of by P. E. King. He mortgaged it for $1,000 in March 1878, due March 12, 1879. Equipment included five log wagons and forty oxen. Both mills were transferred later from Wm Keechle to Cooper, Hardin & Co (John W. Cooper, A. H. S. Hardin, and French Cooper), who sold them to F. J. McCord and John M. Duncan. Ownership of the mills becomes confusing. A railroad directory lists both Jacob Mauthe and Hardin, Cooper & Co at Gladewater but not McCord and Duncan.

Crutcher & Harrison----1881 to 1890
Location: One mile east of Longview along the main tracks of the Texas & Pacific.

Crutcher and George Harrison. W. S. F. Wilkins, Sr.

Rough and finished lumber and shingles
Planing mill east of Longview about one mile. Sawmill and shingle mill about two and a half miles north of O'Byrne Switch.
Henry C. Ferrell sold the old O'Byrne sawmill for $900 to George Harrison and a Mr. Crutcher, located about two and a half miles north of O'Byrne Switch, in 1881. The firm was soon in business, selling lumber to J. M. Carnes, a local contractor. Linkham & Co (D. Linkham and E. Rice) had a shingle mill, which was forced to public sale when they lost a suit to L. McNaughton. For $130, R. D. Welborn and R. C. DeGrafenreid bought the mill, and resold it to Crutcher & Harrison for $175, in 1882. Crutcher & Harrison, in 1884, bought W. S. F. Wilkins, Sr., planing mill, which was located one mile east of Longview between the tracks of the Texas & Pacific and the Gulf, St Louis & Sabine. The steam outfit powered the planer, a surfacer, and a resaw. During the later 1880s, J. D. Crutcher took a mortgage for H. H. Lincoln on some of Lincoln's equipment that the latter used about his sawmill, some three miles north of Camp Switch on the Texas & Pacific.

Another mill owned by same company was located at: two and a half miles north of O'Bryne Switch.

Crutcher and George Harrison. Henry C. Ferrell.

1881 to 1884

D. S. Roach---1884
Location:  Longview

E. B. Prothro---1894
Location: Prothro Switch on the tracks of the International & Great Northern

Elderville Lumber Company----1906

Location:  Duke Spring, Elderville
This plant was producing 15,000 feet daily in 1906.

Evans & Hearn----1905 to 1907
Location:  Elderville

F. B. Martin & Co----1888
Location: About two and a half miles north of Kilgore
A. A. Killingsworth sold a steam sawmill and planing mill located about two and a half miles north of Kilgore to F. B. Martin & Co. Property included some tenant houses, nineteen oxen, and a log wagon.

G. T. Merrill----1885 to 1885
Owners: W. S. Robinson. G. T. Merrill
Location: Planing mill located just west of Crutcher & Harrison on tracks of Texas & Pacific in Longview
Finished lumber and shingles

Planing mill and shingle mill with two planers, resaw, picket header, swing saw, and whip saw.

The W. S. Robinson saw-, planing, and shingle mills were listed in a railroad directory in 1884 at Longview. Robinson had two mills, according to Harrison County records. This mill seemed to a planing mill only. On October 2, Robinson sold this mill to G. T. Merrill. Property included the planing mill equipment (Keystone surfacer and matcher, two resaws, a boiler, and an engine.
The W. S. Robinson saw-, planing, and shingle mills were listed in a railroad directory in 1884 at Longview. Robinson had two mills, according to Harrison County records. One mill seemed to a planing mill only, located three-quarters of a mile from Longview. The second mill was located eleven miles southeast of Longview on the Barnen mill site. On October 2, Robinson sold both mills to G. T. Merrill. The sawmill at Barnen included the boiler, a 12-inch by 14-inch steam engine, a gang edger, a cut-off saw, a lath mill, twenty-nine oxen, six wagons, and 960 acres of white oak and pine timber.
e), located on the tracks of the Texas & Pacific. Merrill also bought Robinson's sawmill site eleven miles from Longview, in Gregg County (see entry). A map of 1885 shows the planing mill to be located just west of that of Crutcher & Harrison on the the tracks of the Texas & Pacific, about a mile east of Longview. Steam-powered equipment included two planers, resaw, picket header, swing saw, and whip saw.

Another mill owned by G T Merrill, W S Robinson  and Mr. Barnen       1884
Location: Eleven miles southeast of Longview on the Barnen mill site.

Rough lumber

12-inch by 14-inch steam engine and a boiler

Sawmill, a gang edger, a cut-off saw, a lath mill, twenty-nine oxen, and six wagons

G. T. Ross----1879 to 1880
Location:  Precinct 3

1,800,000 feet of lumber in reporting period of the Census
Rough lumber
35-horsepower steam engine
Circular and muley sawmill

G. T. Ross, according to the Special Census Records of 1880, operated a sawmill, with a declared value of $10,000, in Gregg County in Precinct 3. He employed twelve to eighteen men, who earned $1.35 to $3.00 for ten-hour shifts; he paid them a combined wage of $3,800 that year. The mill logged and rafted its harvest on the Sabine River. The mill operated, during the reporting period, fulltime for five months and part-time for two months. Using $9,200 worth of raw materials, the sawmill manufactured 1,800,000 board feet of lumber valued at $18,360.

G. V. Utzman----1905 to 1907
Location:  Longview

Lumber and shingles

H. D. Skipper---1906
Location:  Kilgore

H. H. Lincoln---1890
Location: About three miles north of Camp Switch

Finished and rough lumber
Sawmill, planing mill, resaw

During the later 1880s, J. D. Crutcher accepted a mortgage for H. H. Lincoln on some of Lincoln's equipment that the latter used about his sawmill, about three miles north of Camp Switch on the Texas & Pacific. Lincoln, according to the filed deed of trust, had a sawmill, a planing mill, a resaw, twenty-five oxen, three mules, and log wagons.

H. T. Elder & Son-----1906 to 1928
Location: East of Kilgore: Elderville-Peatown Road, near Elderville

Shortleaf yellow pine lumber

Circular sawmill, 1906. 1928: Circular sawmill, edgers, trimmers.
This plant was producing 15,000 feet daily in 1906 and 25,000 in 1928.

Howell, Jewitt, & Co---1893
Location: Longview: Cotton and Spur street
90,000 feet daily [probably a misprint for 9,000 feet daily]

Hugh Echols----1906 to 1907
Location:  Longview

During 1906 and 1907, operated a sawmill at Longview capable of cutting 5,000 board feet daily.

I. N. Stephen-----1905 to 1907
Location:   Longview

Shingle Mill

J G Talley------1884
Location:  Longview

J H Rucker---1880 to 1907
Location:  Longview

J L Henderson-----1893 to 1928
Location:  Longview

Shortleaf yellow pine
Circular sawmill
The firm of J. L. Henderson, possibly a father-and-son outfit, operated at Longview from 1893, when it was cutting 8,000 feet daily, until 1928, when it was listed with a 12,000-ft capacity.

J. M. Hoskin Planing Mill and Corn Mill------1885
Location: Northeast corner of Tyler and High, north of Texas & Pacific tracks

Finished lumber and flooring products
Planing mill with a planer, a band saw, a pony planer, a ripsaw, a resaw, a flooring machine, a turning lathe.

J. W. Killingsworth or Killingworth & McFarland----before 1900
Location:  Longview

The sawmill of J. W. Killingsworth near Longview burned on October 4, 1900. The American Lumberman announced that the sawmill of Killingsworth & McFarland at Longview had burned with a partially insured gain of $1,000 offset by the $5,000 loss.

James O'Bryne---1879 to 1884
Location:  Longview

1,200,000 board feet during the reporting period of the 1880 Census

30-horsepower steam engine

In the 1880 schedule of manufacturers in Precinct 3 of Gregg County during the 1880 Census. His sawmill, valued at $1,500, was powered by a 30-horsepower steam engine and boiler. The mill in the twelve-month reporting period employed twelve to twenty men who earned a wage of $1.25 to $2.00 for an eleven-hour day. The men were paid a total combined wage during the period of $2,400. The mill cut from $6,100 worth of raw materials a total of 1,200,000 board feet of lumber valued at $11,968. O'Bryne did his logging near his mill.

James White----1876
Affiliates: James White. Horatio Brown. E. Jeter

Portable sawmill

According to Gregg County records, James White bought a small portable sawmill and stumpage on land to belonging to Horatio Brown. E. Jeter acted as seller and trustee.

John Roach-----1882 to 1884
Location: On the tracks of the Texas & Pacific

John D. Roach's mill was located on the Texas & Pacific tracks. He sold a bill of lumber to C. C. and J. B. Carter. It is not known if this mill was the D. S. Roach sawmill listed in a railroad directory in 1884 at Longview.

L. J. Everett----   1893 to 1894
L. J. Everett. O. J. Bruce

Location: Southwest of Longview: Highways 1252 and 135

Shingles and finished lumber

L. J. Everett bought O. J. Bruce's shingle mill and drag saw, located six miles southwest of Longview, in 1893. He seemed to be running a "finishing" mill as well, for in 1894 he bought some lumber from J. E. Robinson that the latter had received from the Todd Bros sawmill at Gladewater

LaRoe Brothers---1901
C. A. and J. D. LaRoe. Erwin & Hamilton.

Lumber and shingles
12-inch by 12-inch engine and a 44-inch by 12-ft boiler

C. A. LaRoe had a sawmill that he sold to P. E. Barton for $4,800, in 1901. Equipment included a 112-inch by 12-inch engine and a 44-inch by 12-ft boiler, a shingle mill, a planer, twenty cattle, and two log wagons.

Longview Crate & Woodenware Company
Location:  Longview

Crates, boxes, woodenware

operated a factory at Longview in the early 1900s.

Longview Lumber Company---1893
Location: Longview: Northcutt and Methvin streets

Longview Lumber Company had a sawmill at Longview in 1893, cutting 70,000 feet daily. That same year, according to county records, it leased an one-half interest in R. R. Chaney's planing mill at Longview Station.

Longview Manufacturing Company-----1878
H. M. Miller, T. R. Fridelle, and Northcutt Young & Co (W. G. Northcutt, T. S. S. Young, F. L. Whaley).

Location:  Longview
Milled lumber for buggies and wagons

Sawmill, planing mill, spoke mill, lathe mill
This may have been the genesis of the Longview Lumber Company milling 70,000 feet daily at Longview in 1893.

Mayfield & Durham-----1875 to 1893
William Durham and Byron T. Durham

Location: Foote Switch (Foote's Switch, later known as Snyder's Switch, about four miles south of Longview)

A sawmill firm of Foote & Moberly had an operation, according to the Gregg County records, at Foote Switch on the trackage of the Texas & Pacific. Byron T. Durham gave a deed of trust to Thomas Hope in 1875 for $1,300 for the sawmill, the steam engine, etc., the mill house having earlier burned down. William Durham was partnered to Byron T. Durham, according to Gregg County records, as they repaired the mill site, located at Foote's Switch (later Snyder's Switch) about four miles south of Longview. Local railroad and lumber entrepreneurs Brad and Eli Barnes along with A. Waldrond provided materials for the construction of the new steam mill. A. Waldrond provided material to Byron T. Durham, who built a steam sawmill at Longview. The Durham & Durham sawmill was probably the genesis of the Mayfield & Durham, which was cutting 15,000 feet daily of lumber at Longview in 1893.

Moore & Brown---1873
Affiliates/Owners: Samuel Moore and Isaiah Brown. S. Durham and Sam Fleming.

According to Gregg County records, Samuel Moore and Isaiah Brown gave a mortgage to S. Durham and Sam Fleming for their steam sawmill and two road wagons.

P. Kilfoile----1884
Location:  Longview

P. Kilfoile had a shingle mill at Longview and was listed in a railroad directory in 1884.

Pierce & Reynolds----1873
Location: About three miles east of Longview

Pierce & Reynolds, through Jno. B. Reynolds, according to Gregg County records, bought in 1873 the former Thompson & Slater sawmill located on 320 acres about three miles east of Longview on the tracks of the Texas & Pacific. Reynolds gave a deed of trust to W. H. Beaumont to secure the company's indebtedness to W. G. Randall & Brother.
 

Pool, Watson, & Burton-----1906
Location:  Kilgore

The Pool, Watson, & Burton plant was producing 5,000 feet daily in 1906.

Powers Lumber Company---1899 to 1903
Location: Four miles south of Gladewater

Owner/Company Affiliation: Powers Lumber Company. J. B. Rowe, S. H. Vernon, and Wroten & Grain Lumber Company. .

Powers Lumber Company, with George Millerish, was a Terrel-based company in Kaufman County. As early as 1899, it had a sawtimber lease on the 1,280 acres known as the Leonard Perkins survey in Gregg County, four miles south of Gladewater. Rather than build its own mill and harvest the timber, Powers Lumber Company leased the timber to others, who would cut, haul, mill, and ship the product to Terrell along the tracks of the Texas & Pacific. Some who leased from Powers Lumber were J. B. Rowe, S. H. Vernon, and Wroten & Grain Lumber Company.

Pratt Nicholson----1899
Location: Six miles south of Longview and two miles from the International & Great Northern

Pratt Nicholson sold lumber to Ras Young from his sawmill.

R. G. Brown----1890?s to 1908
R. G. Brown and J. J. Flewellen

Location: Longview: Methvin and Sixth streets

Yellow pine lumber
Sawmill and general store and planing mill

R. G. Brown and J. J. Flewellen, both of Harrison County, partnered early in lumbering at Longview in Gregg County. They bought land in Upshur and Gregg counties, and Brown was running a tram road eleven miles into Upshur County by 1893 to the banks of the Little Cypress Bayou. Brown bought out Flewellen sometime before 1900. The "Lumber Mills of Texas," Southern Industrial and Lumber Review noted that the R. G. Brown sawmill was cutting 20,000 feet daily in 1906. Also listed in the LCA for 1905 and 1907, the mill was a member of the Yellow Pine Manufacturers Association. A map published in 1907 places the mill to the south of the Texas & Pacific tracks and to the east of the end of Methvin and North streets. Equipment included two 60-horsepower steam engines for running the sawmill and a 50-horsepower steam engine for the planing mill. The Brown and Flewellen Lumber Company of Longview dissolved in January 1908 when R. G. Brown bought out J. J. Flewellen. The sale included a nine-mile tram that ran nine miles north from Longview, all sawmills, planers, warehouses, commissaries, etc. The sale price was $5,000.

R. R. Chaney-----1888 to 1893
Location:  Longview

Rough and finished lumber
Sawmill and planing mill

R. R. Chaney, a noted sawmiller in the counties of Gregg, Harrison, and Panola, had a manufacturing plant located at Longview in the 1880s and 1890s. His "Cherokee mill" was located on the tracks of the Texas, Sabine Valley & Longview. He sold a bill of lumber, manufactured at the mill, to Armstrong & Evans for $4,444.40, in 1888, according to county records. R. R. Chaney, in 1893, was cutting 12,000 feet daily of lumber at Longview. Later that year, Chaney leased one-half of his interest in his planing mill at Longview Station to the Longview Lumber Company.

R. R. Philes----1905 to 1907
Location:  Longview

Rumsey & Wolfkill----1884
Location:  Longview

Rush------1880
Location:  Longview

Sabine Mills Lumber Manufacturing Company----1880 to 1883
Company with George Pheuffer, John Otto Buenz, and B. Snyder.

Location: Foote's Switch, later known as Snyder's Switch, about four miles south of Longview

B. Snyder's sawmill and planing mill at Foote's Switch were listed in an 1880 Chicago lumberman directory. Snyder formed the Sabine Mills Lumber Manufacturing Company with George Pheuffer and John Otto Buenz. It was located about four miles from Longview, Foote's Switch being renamed Snyder's Switch. It was sold by District Court order in 1883. Some of the property included three tram cars, a log wagon, and 500 hogs.

Sebe King-----1906
Location:  Kilgore

The Sebe King plant was producing 10,000 feet daily in 1906.

Thomas Harvey Etheridge-----1855   (before Gregg actually became County---probably one of the first sawmills in the area)

Location: Near the Sabine River at Camden (Walling's Ferry, later Easton)

Lumber and cornmeal
Sawmill and grist mill

Thomas Harvey Etheridge wrote his brother, Benjamin Etheridge of Tennessee, in June 1855 that he owned a steam sawmill and grist mill, located at Camden (Walling's Ferry, later Easton). Etheridge shipped lumber as far as Hunt County, more than 140 miles away.

W. C. Robinson-----1893
Location:  Longview

W. C. Robinson was cutting 15,000 feet daily in Longview.

W. C. Smith-----1880
Location:  Longview

W. R. McKay----1905 to 1907
Location:  Longview

Rough Lumber

W. S. Wilkins & Son-----1879 to 1884
W. S. Wilkins and W. S. Wilkins, Jr.

Location: Northwest of Longview, office at Longview

Pine, rough and dressed lumber, shingles
Sawmill, planing mill, shingle mill

According to Gregg County records, S. and W. S. Wilkins, Jr., mortgaged to Buckeye Engine Company on their sawmill machinery located seventeen miles south by east from Gilmer on the C. H. Alexander Headright, a little to the northwest of Longview. The Wilkins & Son mill was listed in a railroad directory in 1884 at Longview. In 1880, W. F. S. Wilkins had a sawmill in nearby Precinct 4 of Harrison County.
 

Yates & Noble------1889 to 1894
Location: Longview: Bonner and Cotton streets

The Yates and Noble lumber manufacturing company at Longview was operating at least by 1889, for in that year it sold a narrow gauge steam locomotive to the Burnett Lumber Company of Lufkin. In 1893, Yates and Noble were cutting 25,000 feet daily of lumber at Longview. The Beaumont Journal in an article the next year noted that Yates and Noble were present at the organizational meeting of the Texas and Louisiana Lumbermen's Association, held at Palestine.