West Lumber Company
West Lumber Company, at Milvid, from about 1915 to 1928, may have bought some of Miller-Vidor’s Peach River shortline rolling stock there. West Lumber was operating about fifteen miles of tramroad in 1928.
The only Milvid sawmill that appeared in the U.S. Department of Commerce’s 1915 directory of sawmills was that of the West Lumber Company. West Lumber may have purchased the mill at Milvid from Union Lumber Company, which had acquired it from Miller-Vidor in 1913. Although the post office was discontinued in 1926, the West Lumber Company appeared at Milvid in 1928 in the Southern Lumberman’s Directory of American Saw Mills and Planing Mills.
[See interview of B. Barrett about his step-father’s experience as a logging camp and tram road repairman for Milvid in 1917.]
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West Lumber Company
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ca. 1915 to ca. 1928
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Milvid, in Liberty County.
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West Lumber Company, at Milvid, from about 1915 to 1928, may have bought some of Miller-Vidor’s Peach River shortline rolling stock there. West Lumber was operating about fifteen miles of tramroad in 1928.
The only Milvid sawmill that appeared in the U.S. Department of Commerce’s 1915 directory of sawmills was that of the West Lumber Company. West Lumber may have purchased the mill at Milvid from Union Lumber Company, which had acquired it from Miller-Vidor in 1913. Although the post office was discontinued in 1926, the West Lumber Company appeared at Milvid in 1928 in the Southern Lumberman’s Directory of American Saw Mills and Planing Mills.
[See interview of B. Barrett about his step-father’s experience as a logging camp and tram road repairman for Milvid in 1917.]