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LEM AND DAN are the lead pair in a six-oxen team. Other members of the highly-trained team are Charley, Jerry, Spec and Doc. Owner and driver of the animals is Tommy Moran of Waveland who, with partners Clarence Fricke, also of Waveland, anc} Charles Mixon of Rocky Hill, operate Mixon Lumber Co. on Hwy. 603 some 15 miles north of US-90. The partners are proud of an ?old fashioned? operation which, in addition to the oxen, uses an old style sawmill.
(Staff photo - Edgar Perez)
OXEN POWER - The six-oxen team of Tommy Moran is tied to the other end of these ^Hnlns ?and supply the power for hoisting a huge pine log onto flatbed truck for transport to Mixon Lumber Company?s old fashioned saw mill on Hwy. 603. In addition to Moran, other partners in the operation are Clarence Fricke and Charles Mixon. Moran owns 12 oxen which are kept in two pens, one at the lumber mill and another in Lakeshore. (Staff photo - Edgar Perez)