Davisville Lumber Company
In March 1909, John S. Doughtie of the Davisville Lumber Company at Davisville, about five miles north of Lukfin, queried the Angelina County Lumber Company if it could �handle� his company for �thirty - ($30,000) thousand dollars.� His properties on 446 acres included wood assets of eight million board feet of standing timber, five hundred thousand feet of stacked logs, and seven hundred thousand feet of lumber.
The logging equipment included a twenty-ton Shay engine, five log car, and a completed four-mile tram road of 35# leased and bought steel rails.
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Davisville Lumber Company . John S. Doughtie
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Ca. 1907 to ca. 1910 or 1911
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Davisville, on FM 2021 off Highway 59 in Angelina County.
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In March 1909, John S. Doughtie of the Davisville Lumber Company at Davisville, about five miles north of Lukfin, queried the Angelina County Lumber Company if it could �handle� his company for �thirty - ($30,000) thousand dollars.� His properties on 446 acres included wood assets of eight million board feet of standing timber, five hundred thousand feet of stacked logs, and seven hundred thousand feet of lumber.
The logging equipment included a twenty-ton Shay engine, five log car, and a completed four-mile tram road of 35# leased and bought steel rails.