Jefferson Lumber Company
The Jefferson Lumber Company was reported to be cutting 40,000 feet daily in 1893 at its Jefferson plant and 50,000 feet daily at its Kildare plant. Reed reports that Jefferson Lumber had its own logging tram, the Kildare & Linden Railway Company, which operated from 1889 to 1901, when it was abandoned, according to Zlatkovich. In fact, the Jefferson & Northwestern Railway Company, the steam logging tram road of the Clark & Boice Lumber Company at Jefferson, acquired the Kildare & Linden. Jefferson Lumber Company also owned the Atlanta & Mt Pleasant Railway Company, another tram road.
W. B. Ward and James Hervey Bemis, both primary owners at Jefferson Lumber, sold the company acreage as early as 1885, according to county records.
Mill Details
Alpha Numeric Key:
CS
Owner Name
Jefferson Lumber Company with James Hervey Bemis. Kildare Lumber Company
Location
Kildare (mills also at Atlanta, Jefferson)
County
Cass
Years in Operation:
17
Start Year:
1885
End Year:
1901
Decades:
1880-1889,1890-1899,1900-1909
Period of Operation:
1885 to 1901
Town:
Kildare
Company Town:
1
Peak Town Size:
Unknown
Mill Pond:
2