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Valley
Lumber Co.
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Standard gauge, 30 to 56-lb rail
Headquarters: Camden, Ark.
Mill Location: Gloster, MS (Amite County)
Mill Capacity: 0,000 ft/day
Years of Operation: 1913-1915
Miles Operated: 11 miles
Locomotives Owned:
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Also see: W. L. Robinson
Lbr. Co.
Gloster Lumber Co.
Equipment:
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History
by Gil Hoffman:
On
March 28, 1913, for $95,000 the Valley Lumber Company, of Camden,
Arkansas, bought 3,400 acres of timber land in the vicinity of Gloster,
Amite County, from the Boutin Timber Company, of Bayfield, Wisc. On June 9,
1913 the company bought the sawmill plant, logging railroad and equipment of
the W. L. Robinson Lumber Company, on the northern outskirts of Gloster. The
price was $33,000 which included lease of the mill site. Officers of the
company were: J. T. Sifford, vice president, and C. W. Niehuss, secretary.
On January 23, 1915, the Valley Lumber Company sold all
its timber holdings and rights-of-way plus other real estate and lands in
Mississippi to the Gloster Lumber Company for $100,000. Included in
this deal was the property bought by the Valley Lumber Company on June 9,
1913, from the W. L. Robinson Lumber Company and the timber bought from the
Boutin Timber Company on March 28, 1913.
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ROSTER by Gil Hoffman:
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Road
No.
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Type
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Builder
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C.N.
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Date
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Cyls.
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Dri.
Dia.
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Engine
Wt.
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Previous
Ownership
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Disposition
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1
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23-2
Shay
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Lima
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1610
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12/1905
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3-9x8
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26½
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43400
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W.
L. Robinson Lumber Co. #1, Gloster, MS
Valley Lumber Co. #1, on 6/9/1913.
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Southern
Iron & Equipment Co. #939,
on
8/11/1913.
Bowie
Lumber Co. #9, Bowie, LA,
on
4/11/1916.
Transferred as #9 to St. James, LA.
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3
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2-8-0
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Baldwin
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4926
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1/1880
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15x18
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36
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70000
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Denver,
South Park & Pacific #52
Built
36" gauge.
Re.
#192 in 1885.
Denver,
Leadville & Gunnison #192, in 1889.
Colorado
& Southern #32, in 1/1899.
J.
J. White #4, McComb City, MS, in 1901.
Changed
to standard gauge.
W.
L. Robinson Lumber Co. #3, Gloster, MS, ca. 1911.
Valley
Lumber Co. #3, on 6/9/1913.
Baldwin class 10-24 E 40
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Gloster
Lumber Co. #3, Gloster, MS,
on
1/23/1915.
Birmingham
Rail & Locomotive Co. #1097,
on
4/26/1916.
Mardez
Lumber Co., Benford, TX,
on 12/6/1916.
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5
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28-2
Shay
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Lima
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3-10x10
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56000
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Unknown.
Ship
Island Lumber Co. 1st #9, Sanford, MS
Southern
Iron & Equipment Co. #904
Valley
Lumber Co. #5, on 8/11/1913.
Cost $3,650 with $1,250 allowed in
trade on Shay #1.
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Dropped by 1/1915.
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