A&D Munro sawmilling operation at Emu Creek

While A&D Munro's principal timbergetting and milling activities in the early 1900's were centred around the Perseverance and Ravensbourne areas, they did conduct operations further afield having mills at Cooyar and at Emu Creek, as indicated on the map below.

Our source of information relating to the Emu Creek mill comes from Kevin Ahearn's "From Crosscut to Chainsaw" Book 1. In that book Kevin mentions that Munro's were granted a licence in 1910 to cut and remove Hoop Pine from within an area on the Upper Emu Creek, east of Emu Vale. He also mentions that Munro's were in the process of constructing a mill about 5 miles away from that area in January of 1911. And that fits well with in an article dated 10 June 1911, in which the Warwick Examiner and Times' Emu Vale correspondent makes mention of the pending commencement of operations at that mill:

Credit: National Library of Australia

So circa 1911 their operations ranged from Cooyar in the north to Emu Creek in the south.