History: | In 1908, Aldridge Lumber Company mortgaged for steel rails, angle joints, and spikes. In 1907, Aldridge Lumber purchased a locomotive and tender for $3,150. Aldridge's d value on its tram road and equipment combined was $6,500, including six miles of road in 1908, according to Form E, “Assessment of Railroads, Street Railroads, . .”, etc. In 1909, the tax roll showed only three and three quarters miles of tram roads, but the value had gone up to $8,375. The county tax roll for that year revealed that Aldridge Lumber owned twenty-four horses and mules, eighteen cattle, and six wagons.
In 1910, the county chattel mortgage register recorded that Aldridge Lumber Company mortgaged to Geo. M. Dilley & Son for tram building equipment: to wit, 376 steel rails, joints and twenty-one keys and spikes. The purchase price was $1,556.75.
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