 Spaulding 400 square miles of virgin timber that ran from the current site of Owen north through Taylor County and into Rusk County.Near where the railroad crossed Brick Creek and that creek flowed into the Popple River, the company built a warehouse, a boarding house, and five log buildings clustered around the rail line.They dammed Brick Creek to make a mill pond and built a sawmill, a planing mill, and a company store.