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Code:	343
Corporate Name:	Otho S. Wooley
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Ownership:	Othos S. Wooley. Ellis A. Oualline. Coulsen-Bradley Lumber Company.
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Track Type:	Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
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Locations Served:	Conroe (Montgomery Cty)
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Track Information:	Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
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History:	Coulson-Bradley Company was listed as operating a hardwood mill at Conroe in 1934 by The Lumbermen's Credit Rating Book, October 1934. In fact, the mill had been located at Old Security in the Bennette addition in 1928 and purchased from Ellis A. Oualline in 1928. Oualline had foreclosed on Otho S. Wooley, a sawmiller from Shelby County. Wooley's sawmill had a steam engine, two boilers, a carriage and steam feed, a saw husk and saw works, cutoff saws, log cars, lumber dollies and rails on Wooley's tram road. Otho S. Wooley had operated sawmills in that part of East Texas from southern Shelby County and northern San Augustine County, including mills in the Neuville and Bland Lake area. It is known that he operated a tram road in Shelby County, because Ellis A. Oualline from Montgomery County had foreclosed on Wooley's sawmill in Shelby County before 1928. Oualline removed to Conroe the sawmill, the steam machinery, log cars and rails from the Wooley sawmill. Oualline then sold the material to Coulsen-Bradley Lumber Company.