Fordyce Lumber Company collection, 1926-1963.

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Fordyce Lumber Company collection, 1926-1963.

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The collection consists of company president Edward C. Gates' personal copies of company records bound under assigned titles. Included are inter-office correspondence; production, promotional, and sales records; annual and monthly reports; labor relations notes; wage schedules; forestry management data; reports of the Fordyce and Princeton Railroad Company; and photographs of the Fordyce Lumber Company and of Fordyce, Arkansas.

65 ms. v.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6786530

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Gates, Edward P., Mrs., 1888-

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Fordyce and Princeton Railroad Company.

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Fordyce Lumber Company.

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Dr. John Wenzel Watzek, Charles Warner Gates, and Edward Savage Crossett founded the Fordyce Lumber Company at Fordyce, Dallas County, Arkansas in 1890. In the same year and as part of the same investment, the Fordyce & Princeton Railroad Company was organized and laid a track from the Cotton Belt Railroad System to the Fordyce mill one mile away. When the mill was opened the track was extended northward from the mill into the timber for a distance of 221 miles for the purpose of hauling log...