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Murry Hammond is working to produce Rusty Rails & Dusty Trails history newsletters on various Jasper County subjects. In general, I am looking for photographs to illustrate the histories, and surviving family stories to personalize them. If you have any pictures or stories on the old log railroads or sawmill life that you would be willing to let us copy for our publication, I'd love to speak with you by mail or e-mail or telephone. Contact: Murry Hammond (click for e-Mail) or call anytime at 818-653-4626.

Here are our needs:

Kirby Lumber Company at Bessmay
Kirby Lumber Company at Evadale
Log camps at Browndel, Bon Ami, and Roganville

Thank you!

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory

1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1919 Dun's Mercantile Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1919 Dun's Mercantile Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory

Evadale, Texas, 1955 (USGS)
Source: United State Geological Survey.

A Visit to the Kirby Mills (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
With Frost At Jasper (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
Something New At Jasper (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
With Kirby at Bessmay (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
Timbered Texas (Galveston Daily News, 1900)

Logging Railroads of East Texas, 89-Page Magazine on CD-Rom Format.
The history of the logging railroads and tram operations in East Texas between 1840 and 1964. PDF file containes 100 photographs in 89 pages, on a CD-Rom.