A. E. Bates
A. E. Bates bought, in 1948, on the former site of the Harvey Creek Lumber Company, a planer mill and house, various sawmill equipment, trucks, eighty-five thousand feet of rough lumber, an edger, fifteen thousand feet of pine logs, a 1936 Ford Truck, a 1941 Ford Log Truck, a 1945 Ford Lumber Truck, a trailer, a log loader, a shed, and ten tenant houses.
This is probably the company that M. Cooper remembered as the Broaddus Lumber Company at Broaddus during the 1940s. The company had a commissary and a few tenant houses.
Mill Details
Alpha Numeric Key:
SA
Owner Name
A. E. Bates. Harvey Creek Lumber Company. Probably Broaddus Lumber Company before.
Location
Two and one half miles southwest of Broaddus on State Highway 147
County
San Augustine/Shelby
Years in Operation:
8
Start Year:
1948
End Year:
1955
Decades:
1940-1949,1950-1959
Period of Operation:
1948 to the early 1950s
Town:
Broaddus
Company Town:
1
Peak Town Size:
Unknown
Mill Pond:
2