Code: | 294 |
Corporate Name: | Newton County Lumber Company |
Folk Name: | |
Incorporated: | |
Ownership: | Newton County Lumber Company |
Years of Operation: | 1944 to 1949 |
Track Type: |
Standard Gauge |
Wooden Rails |
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Track Length: | Unknown |
Locations Served: | Deweyville, Newton
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Counties of Operation: | Newton |
Line Connections: | International and Great Northern at Hufsmith |
Track Information: |
Tram Road |
Logging / Industrial |
Common Carrier |
Logging Camp |
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Equipment: | |
History: | Records filed in the Newton County Lumber Company Papers, archived in the Angelina County Lumber Company records, revealed that the Deweyville mill of Newton County Lumber Company averaged about 70,000 board feet per day during the first seven months of 1944. The highest daily cuts were two days over 80,000 feet. The company carried an ad in The Gulf Coast Lumberman in 1949.
Keeling notes that the company operated a tram road. |