Evans Lumber Co.
The W. P. Evans Lumber Co. of Coldspring was the forerunner of the Evans Lumber Co. there. In 1944, W. P. Evans Lumber mortgaged to the Peoples Bank of Shepherd a Red Seal diesel engine, a portable sawmill with a carriage, edger, and cutoff saw, and a 1937 Buick motor. The mill had been from C. M. Yates on May 20, 1944. Yates had been sawing the year before in Timpson, where he had bought the sawmill outfit.
The Evans Lumber Co appeared in the 1957 edition of Nelson T. Samson's Directory of Wood-Using and Related Industries in East Texas and in the Directory of Texas Manufacturers 1956-1958.
Mill Details
Alpha Numeric Key:
SJ
Owner Name
Evans Lumber Co. C. M. Yates.
Location
The J. C. Hogue pasture near Coldspring
County
San Jacinto
Years in Operation:
15
Start Year:
1944
End Year:
1958
Decades:
1940-1949,1950-1959
Period of Operation:
1944 to about 1958
Town:
Coldspring
Company Town:
2
Peak Town Size:
Unknown
Mill Pond:
2