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Code:	128
Corporate Name:	C. E. Slade Logging Company tram road at Camp Quigley
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Ownership:	C. E. Slade Logging Company.
Years of Operation:	1905 to 1909
Track Type:	Standard Gauge Wooden Rails
Track Length:	Several
Locations Served:	Quigley, Myrtle Springs Jasper
Counties of Operation:	Jasper
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Track Information:	Tram Road Logging / Industrial Common Carrier Logging Camp
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History:	The American Lumberman noted on January 28, 1905, that C. E. Slade had operated tie camps along the Orange & Northwestern for several years. He is building a two-mile long tram road to harvest almost 24,000,000 feet of standing timber near his camp at Myrtle Springs. Established by C. E. Slade in 1905, this camp was supplying twenty-four carloads of lumber to the Miller-Link Lumber Company's mill at Orange. C. E. Slade must have been working primarily with wooden tram roads and animals in Jasper County. The 1908 tax assessor's roll revealed one mile of tram road, worth $1,000, and $500 worth of “Proportionate Amount of Rolling Stock in the County.” Another tax roll for that year in Jasper County revealed that he had thirty-five horses or mules, and seven wagons rendered for taxation. In 1909, the camp closed and was transferred to Bunker Hill, Jasper. The loggers and family members numbered about 150. In September, 1908, the Southern Industrial and Lumber Review reported that Miller-Link was doing its own logging.