Beaumont Lumber Company
Upon the sale of the Smyth's Brothers' Eagle Mill to Texas Tram and Lumber, the brothers began a tram logging operation at Wiess Bluff. Owning more than 13,000 acres of good timberland, they harvested trees with a locomotive, thirteen logging cards, and five miles of trackage. In 1888, Wiess Bluff Tram was sold to Beaumont Lumber Company.
The Handbook of Texas noted that until the Kirby tram road, the Gulf, Beaumont & Kansas City, penetrated the area, the logging community numbered more than 2,000. With the tram road in place, the logging town quickly decreased in size.
Mill Details
Alpha Numeric Key:
HD
Owner Name
Wiess Bluff Tram Company, George W., Jr., and J. G. Smyth. Sold to Beaumont Lumber in 1888.
Location
Wiess Bluff on the Neches River, sixteen miles north of Beaumont
County
Hardin
Years in Operation:
11
Start Year:
1883
End Year:
1893
Decades:
1880-1889,1890-1899
Period of Operation:
Wiess Bluff Tram, 1883 to 1888. Beaumont Lumber, until the 1890s
Town:
Wiess Bluff
Company Town:
1
Peak Town Size:
About 2,000
Mill Pond:
0