Crockett Tram and Lumber Company Charter Filed
A brief record of a new East Texas lumber and tramway corporation chartered with $100,000 capital, naming its investors and its planned logging and milling operations.
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The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Page 5
1 min readThe charter of the Crockett Tram and Lumber company of Crockett, Houston county, was filed yesterday. Capital stock, $100,000. This corporation's purpose is the cutting of logs and lumber and conveying the same to market, building and operating mills for sawing and cutting lumber, shingles, ties and other products manufactured from lumber, constructing and operating tramways to be run either by steam or horse power, to do a general milling, logging, lumbering and timber business anywhere in the state of Texas. Incorporators: W. C. Teter of Minneapolis, Minn.; D. A. Nunn, A. H. Wootters, John B. Smith, A. A. Aldrich of Crockett, Tex.; J. H. Ratcliff of Ratcliff, Tex., and T. F. Join of Coltharp, Tex.
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