The company was organized by Daniel Buck of Bellefonte, James Hockenberry of East Waterford, and a third partner, named Brown, about 1905.
This town was served by the narrow gauge Tuscarora Valley Railroad, which provided an outlet for finished lumber from the mills.
[1] To bring timber to the mills, the company planned a logging railroad from a connection with the Tuscarora Valley at East Waterford toward its timberlands.
[1] The railroad was built using a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge, the same as the connecting Tuscarora Valley.
McNitt entered into partnership with H.C. Hower, the lumber broker who disposed of much of the timber shipped over the Tuscarora Valley Railroad, and they formed the Juniata Lumber Company to log a tract in Maryland.