| sawmill id: | 9567 |
| alpha-numeric key: | AN-60 |
| corporate name: | R. L. Jowell Lumber Company |
| local name: | |
| owner affiliation: | R. L. Jowell Lumber Company |
| location: | Frankston |
| county: | Anderson |
| years in operation: | 1 |
| start year: | 1934 |
| (qual) | * |
| end year: | 1934 |
| (qual) | * |
| decades: | 1930-1939 |
| period of operation: | 1934 |
| town: | Frankston |
| company town: | ? |
| peak town size: | 3000 in 1928; 1109 in 1934 |
| mill pond: | |
| type of mill: | Rough and finished lumber |
| sawmill: | Yes |
| pine sawmill: | Yes |
| hardwood sawmill: | |
| cypress sawmill: | |
| planer: | |
| planer only: | |
| shingle: | |
| paper: | |
| plywood: | |
| cotton: | |
| grist: | |
| unknown: | |
| other: | |
| power source: | Probably steam |
| horse: | |
| mule: | |
| oxen: | |
| water: | |
| water overshot: | |
| water turbine: | |
| pit: | |
| steam: | |
| steam circular: | |
| steam band: | |
| gas: | |
| diesel: | |
| electric: | |
| other: | |
| unknown: | Yes |
| maximum capacity: | |
| (qual) | |
| capacity comments: | Unknown |
| rough lumber: | Yes |
| planed lumber: | Yes |
| crossties: | |
| timbers: | |
| lathe: | |
| ceiling: | |
| unknown: | |
| beading: | |
| flooring: | |
| paper: | |
| plywood: | |
| particle board: | |
| treated: | |
| other: | |
| equipment: | Planing mill and sawmill |
| company tram: | No |
| associated railroads: | Southern Pacific |
| historical development: | R. L. Jowell Lumber Company was listed in the Lumbermen?s Credit Rating Book, October 1934 as sawing and planing lumber at Frankston. This company may have evolved from Jowell & Billingsby or Jowell & Houston, both of which had been manufacturing lumber in Frankston as late as the early 1930s. This may have been the sawmill that M. Cooper remembered in Frankston about 1918. He believed its name was ?Lee Joel Lumber? and that it had four company houses. |
| research date: | MCJ 03-06-96 |
| research by: | M Johnson |
| historical interpretation: | |
| interpretation by: | |
| interpretation date: | |
| bibliography: | Lumbermen?s Credit Rating Book, October 1934. Chicago: Lumbermen?s Credit Association, 1934. 18. M. Cooper Oral Interview with Vernon L. Beasley. August 29, 1994. Lufkin, Texas. Tape at Texas Forestry Museum. Lufkin, Texas. |
