| History: | Trade journals refer to the G. C. Holston lumber operations originating in Longview, Texas, during the 1920s. The mill, in 1921, was located at Louetta. The American Lumberman reported on January 1, 1921, that the G. C. Holston Lumber Company was operating “what might be called ‘The Duplex Logging Limited' in action near Louetta, Texas.” The company was running “a Duplex 4-wheel drive truck to work hauling the logs for a 35,000-foot capacity mill. The Duplex truck was was first equipped with flanged wheels and two and one half miles of steel track was laid. By the use of a turntable at the mill and one in the woods this truck now hauls six loads a day, averaging from 3,5000 to 4,000 feet a load. The two and one half mile trip to the mill with a load is made in a bout eighteen minuets, altho [sic] there are two grades of not less than 2 1/2 to 3 percent. The trailer equipment consists of two cars built on standard heavy railroad trucks, with one set of trucks used as a semi-trailer directly back of the Duplex. . . . A third car is left in the timber to be loaded while the Duplex hauls one car and semitrailer to the mill.”
How long Holston Lumber Company continued tram operations remains unknown. |