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The railroad of the Louisiana & Pine Bluff Railway Company, herein called the Louisiana & Pine Bluff, is a single-track, standard-gauge, steam railroad, extending from a connection with the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company's tracks at Huttig, Ark., northwesterly to a connection with the same company's tracks at Dollar Junction, Ark., 1.879 miles. In addition, the company owns 5.074 miles of yard tracks and sidings. Its road thus embraces 6.953 miles of all tracks owned, all of which are used by the company. By means of trackage rights, the company operates logging trains over 128 miles of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the points reached being Monroe and Farmersville, La., and Louann, Ark. The Louisiana & Pine Bluff is an industrial railroad. It reports for the year [...]


CORPORATE HISTORY

The Louisiana & Pine Bluff was incorporated April 4, 1905, under the laws of the State of Arkansas, for a period of 15 years, for the purpose of building, owning, and operating a railway from a point at or near Huttig in a northerly and northwesterly direction to a point at or near Wilmington, all in Union County, Ark. The date of organization is not indicated by the records reviewed.

DEVELOPMENT OF FIXED PHYSICAL PROPERTY

The owned mileage, consisting of 1.879 miles, was constructed about 1905 and 1906 and was placed in operation in 1906.

HISTORY OF CORPORATE FINANCING