Tom-Lee Lumber Company
The Bennette-Davison Lumber Company owned a sawmill at Butlersburg, presumably near Conroe, in 1920. In 1923, Tom S. Falvey bought the facility for his Tom-Lee Lumber Company. It also owned part of the old J. O. H. Bennette tram road, the Conroe, Byspot & Northern (see its entry in the East Texas Tram Road Data Base). Tom-Lee Lumber sold a Mogul type Panama Canal No. 213 locomotive to Kirby Lumber Corporation in 1923. In 1924, Tom-Lee Lumber sold seventy stacks of lumber, which it contracted to dress and ship by railroad, to Foster-Bushman Lumber Company, for $5,000. The company soon thereafter had financial difficulties. In July, 1926, Lila Cochran, perhaps with interests in the nearby Grogan-Cochran Lumber Company, bought from H. C. Lilley, as a result of a sheriff's sale, a number of tenant houses, a dry kiln building, and the dollyways of Tom-Lee Lumber Company. The dollyways ran from the dry kiln to the San Jacinto Tie & Preserving Company.
H. S. Lilley mortgaged, in 1924, 2,500 crossties to the First National Bank of Cleveland, the ties located on the Tom Lee Lbr Co tram road in San Jacinto County.
Mill Details
Alpha Numeric Key:
MO
Owner Name
Tom-Lee Lumber Company, Tom S. Falvey, President. Bennette-Davison Lumber Company.
Location
Butlersburg, near Conroe
County
Montgomery
Years in Operation:
7
Start Year:
1920
End Year:
1926
Decades:
1920-1929
Period of Operation:
1920 to 1926
Town:
Butlersburg, near Conroe
Company Town:
1
Peak Town Size:
Unknown
Mill Pond:
2
