| History: | Lodwick Lumber Company succeeded Grogan Lumber Company at Lodwick, about 1902. Grogan Lumber had built trams earlier to access their stands of timber. Glen Lumber Company, located about seven miles west of Lodwick, had acquired a Torrans Manufacturing Company plant there in 1901. Both companies continued to operate their trams for logging but apparently had not connected them to the Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas at Lasater.
In 1906 and 1907, Lodwick Lumber contracted with Anthony Bolton, L. Amstrong, and others in order to construct a right-of-way for its tram engines to the company pineries.
In 1908, the Glen Lumber Company, located in the southwestern part of the county seven miles west of Lodwick, entered into an agreement with Lodwick Lumber Company. The Glen Lumber tram ran from its mill to within four miles of Lasater in the northern portion of the county, crossing Cypress River and Johnson Creek. Glen Lumber and Lodwick Lumber agreed to contact the Lodwick tram to the that of the Glen tram, and then construct together the remaining miles of track to Lasater. Keeling noted that Glen Lumber operated one geared locomotive. |