L. T. Sloan, and his son, Arthur, operated a sawmill at Elwood or Elmwood, in Polk County, in 1880, when the Houston East & West Texas constructed its tracks through the county. They also operated a larger sawmill at Pine Valley from about 1894 and 1900. This L. T. Sloan may be the L. T. Sloane at Phelps in 1893.
Peebles states that his tram road connected with the Houston East & West Texas.
The Sloans were still in the feed and chop business in Livingston in 1909. They held the controlling interest in the newly-formed Light & Power Company, a part of a corporation, the Livingston Manufacturing Company, that included their feed and chop operation. The Polk County Enterprise reported that a twenty-horsepower gasoline engine would power the electrical output, which would generate the energy for the business and the community.