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Durham Transportation Company

The Durham Transportation Company, logging for the A. Harris sawmill, located at Tyler, Smith County, was listed by the American Lumberman Industrial Statistics List of Steam Logging Roads in 1906. It may have evolved from Thomas Durham’s Sweetgum, Yubadam, & Hoo Hoo railway of the previous decade. Louis Lipshitz was listed as president.

Durham Transportation company sold a Baldwin locomotive to the Chronister Lumber Company sawmill at Wildhurst in 1908 for $8,200. [L. Lipshitz and A. Harris, the former’s son-in-law, were the primary stockholders in Chronister.]

Keeling lists the Durham Transportation Company as the Chronister Lumber Company logging tram road at Wildhurst and Forest, Cherokee County, with three rod locomotives and twenty-seven miles of track.

Code

143

Corporate Name:

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Incorporated:

No

Ownership:

A. Harris.

Years of Operation:

1906 to 1908

Track Type:

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Track Length:

Seventeen

Locations Served:

Tyler Smith

Counties of Operation:

Smith, Harrison

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History:

The Durham Transportation Company, logging for the A. Harris sawmill, located at Tyler, Smith County, was listed by the American Lumberman Industrial Statistics List of Steam Logging Roads in 1906. It may have evolved from Thomas Durham’s Sweetgum, Yubadam, & Hoo Hoo railway of the previous decade. Louis Lipshitz was listed as president.

Durham Transportation company sold a Baldwin locomotive to the Chronister Lumber Company sawmill at Wildhurst in 1908 for $8,200. [L. Lipshitz and A. Harris, the former’s son-in-law, were the primary stockholders in Chronister.]

Keeling lists the Durham Transportation Company as the Chronister Lumber Company logging tram road at Wildhurst and Forest, Cherokee County, with three rod locomotives and twenty-seven miles of track.

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