Dayton Lumber Company [Postcard]
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Dayton Lumber Company [Postcard]Context
The Dayton Lumber Company was organized in December, 1905, the erection of its mill was begun immediately and it began sawing in July, 1906. The officers of the company are: President, L. Fouts, Dayton, vice president and treasurer, Alf Bennett, St. Louis, Mo.; secretary, C. L. Rutt, Beaumont, Tex. The timber holdings of the company, aggregating about 23,000 acres, estimated to cut 250,000,000 feet, begin about ten miles north of the plant. The timber is mainly shortleaf yellow pine, though the holdings have a scattering of something like 60,000,000 feet of white and red oak, ash, hickory and gum. The pine is of good size and excellent quality, averaging 50 percent upper grades. The timber holdings are located in Liberty county, Texas, on the west side of the Trinity river. The original purchase was about 21,000 acres, subsequent purchases bringing it up to 23,000 acres, the average standing being from 10,000 to 12,000 feet to the acre. Logging operations are being carried on at a camp about twelve miles north of the mill, ninety oxen and a few mules being used. Logs are loaded by an American loader and are hauled to the mill by the Trinity Valley & Northern railway. Thirty-five Marshall skeleton logging cars and one locomotive are used. The company's railway, which has a mileage of thirteen miles, employs a 60-ton rod engine and operates a passenger car in connection with its logging business. At the saw mill the logs are handled direct from the logging cars on the mill switch to an incline to the log deck without being placed in a pond; water not being available for that purpose.Category
Lumber Industry
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