Here is a sample of the items that were discovered during restoration.  In the walls were found about a hundred salvageable agent ticket stubs, 2 salvageable Santa Fe envelopes, and 16 cardboard baggage strap checks.  In a lower drawer of the operator's desk, I found about 30 scale tickets from Lakeside.  I also found a lot of white cardboard squares - an example appears at the right side of this page.  I have no idea what their purpose was.   Included at the bottom are some items found in the trash pile under the freight room and a board from the baggage room.

Tickets were stamped on the back with a "dater" which had the railroad name and location, and an adjustable date field.

         March 8, 1912 Ticket.
Reverse side stamped with "Cane Belt Railroad" dater.  It is the only one that I recovered with this stamp.  All of the others had the GC&SF dater stamp from Eagle Lake.

Each month, the agent would collect the stubs from the passenger tickets and baggage, place them in an envelope, and label it with the month and year.  These were kept on file for when the traveling auditor came to check the financial records.  I left this envelope with the contents intact as it was one of only two that I found complete.

 

 
Scale Ticket from Lakeside Texas - July 19, 1916.
Car # 46730 was from the Erie Railroad.

G.C.&S.F. Baggage Tag.
A strap used to identify checked passenger baggage.

G.C.& S.F. Interline Ticket to Oakwood, TX.
Routing via Cane Belt to Sealy, G.C.&S.F. to
Milano Junction, and finally the I.&G.N. to Oakwood.

G.C.& S.F. Interline Ticket to Port Lavaca.
Routing via Cane Belt to Wharton
then G.H.&S.A. to Port Lavaca.

G.C.& S.F. Interline Ticket to Blessing, TX.
Routing via Cane Belt to Bay City,
then via the "Brownie" to Blessing.

G.C.& S.F. Interline Ticket to Palacios, TX.
Routing via Cane Belt to Wharton
then G.H.& S.A. to Palacios

G.C.& S.F. Interline Ticket to Austin 
The routing would be via the old Cane Belt to Sealy,
then the G.C.&S.F. to Brenham Union Depot,
and finally the H.&T.C. to Austin.

"Cardboard Square"
Don't know the purpose of these, but I found plenty of them in the desk.  All were identical to this one.

Above:  This board was used in the ceiling of the baggage room to mount an electrical junction box.  It is marked "G.C.& S.F. Ry c/o W. L. Cunningham -  Foreman - Eagle Lake, Tex."  No doubt this was part of a wooden crate shipped to the depot construction site, and the lumber from the crate was reused in the depot where ever a scrap piece was needed.
 

Above:  Two "Crow's Foot" zinc electrodes from the telegraph battery.     Right:  A liquor bottle.

These items were found in the trash pile under the freight room floor.  The telegraph battery consisted of a glass jar filled with water and chemicals. A zinc electrode was on top and a copper electrode at the bottom.   The chemical action of the battery would slowly eat away at the zinc electrode and it would need replacement.  The old ones were discarded in the trash pile.