Louisiana Central Lumber Company, Clarks, Louisiana, Records

C Louisiana Central Lumber Company, Clarks, Louisiana, Records, 1901-1956

3660 72 linear feet; 268 volumes on 156 rolls of microfilm

MICROFILM (Volumes only)

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INTRODUCTION

Records of the Louisiana Central Lumber Company and associated companies. The

papers include correspondence, 1901-1945, financial records, company reports, maps, photo-

graphs, and other materials related to the southern lumber industry.

DONOR INFORMATION

The records were donated to the University of Missouri by the Louisiana Central Lumber

Company on 27 November 1961 (Accession No. 3497).

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND HISTORY

The Louisiana Central Lumber Company with sawmills in Clarks and Standard,

Louisiana, was one component of a group of lumber companies headquartered in Kansas City,

Missouri. The main company, which acted as the sales agent for the lumber produced by the

subsidiary lumber mills, was the Missouri Lumber and Land Exchange Company, which was

later renamed Exchange Sawmills Sales Company. The parent lumber company was the

Missouri Lumber and Mining Company with mills in Grandin and West Eminence, Missouri.

Another Missouri mill was the Ozark Land and Lumber Company in Winona, Missouri.

The Missouri lumber group expanded its operations into Louisiana by buying up lumber

mills and timber or by constructing its own mills. The Louisiana Central Lumber Company was

established in Clarks in 1902 with the Standard mill following in 1906. The Standard mill closed

in 1933, the Clarks mill in 1953.

Associated with Louisiana Central Lumber Company were other Louisiana subsidiaries:

the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company with mills in Fisher and Victoria; the Forest Lumber

Company with a mill in Oakdale organized in 1913; the Louisiana Sawmill Company in Glen-

mora organized in 1918, closed 1929; and the White-Grandin Lumber Company in Slagle, near

Leesville (also organized in 1918), closed 1931.

Each lumber company had several basic divisions: the land office which oversaw the

purchase and sale of land and timber rights; the lumber camps and tree cutting operations; the

railroad division which transported the timber from the lumber camps to the sawmill; the saw-

mill which processed the lumber; and the hotels, hospitals, stores, churches, schools, houses, and

other activities associated with company towns.

The lumber mills had subsidiary railroad companies to transport lumber from the mills to

the lumber yards. The Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad Company was a subsidiary of

Louisiana Central Lumber Company; and the Victoria, Fisher, and Western Railroad Company

serviced the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company.

The major stockholder and officer of this group of lumber companies was John Barber

White (1847-1923), of Kansas City. In 1919 J.B. White's health began to fail and his son,

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Raymond, became active in the lumber business eventually taking his father's place as chief

officer of the lumber companies.

C.E. Slagle was general manager of the Louisiana Central Lumber Company in Clarks

and Standard from 1902 until his retirement in 1927. He was succeeded by C.C. Sheppard, who

had been manager of other saw mills in the system in Missouri and the Louisiana Sawmill

Company in Glenmora. Upon Sheppard's death in 1949, Mayo M. Iles became the third and last

general manager of LCLC. J.W. Clarkson was the land superintendent in charge of all land

transactions.

Lumber production at LCLC reached its highest levels during World War I and in the

1920s. The industry was hard hit during the economic depression of the 1930s, and following

the end of government controls after World War II, production continued to decline.

By the 1950s virtually all of the company's land holdings had been sold and most of the

lumber operations ceased. The sawmill in Clarks closed in 1953, ending 51 years of operation.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The records of the Louisiana Central Lumber Company are an exceptionally complete

collection of business records that document the history of one of the largest lumber concerns in

Louisiana and provide insight into the workers' lives.

The bulk of the collection deals with the Louisiana Central Lumber Company, although

the collection includes correspondence with and assorted financial records of other sawmills in

J.B. White's lumber organization such as the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Co., the Forest

Lumber Co., the Louisiana Sawmill Co., and the White-Grandin Lumber Co.

The records furnish a comprehensive picture of the company's land and timber transac-

tions, sawmill and lumber operations; financial organization; interaction with other lumber

companies and lumber operators' organizations in the region; relations with company employees

and labor unions; social relations with employees; and interaction with local, state, and federal

government agencies.

The collection should prove valuable not only to those interested in business and

industrial history, but also to those studying work and organized labor, social and community

history, the environment, race relations, and southern history.

Although founded in the early twentieth century, Louisiana Central Lumber Company had

much in common with nineteenth century industrial practices and theory. It was a paternalistic

company, attempting to extend maximum control over its labor force both in the workplace and

in the private lives of its employees, most of whom lived in company housing in company towns

and camps.

The company was strongly opposed to labor unions and actively worked to prevent the

organization of its workforce into labor unions. The collection provides significant information

on the formation and repression of southern labor unions, particularly the Industrial Workers of

the World and the Brotherhood of Timber Workers.

As the company prospered, it reflected national business trends and events; railroad

strikes, fluctuations of the domestic lumber market, the depression of the 1930s, World Wars I

and II, and the growing intrusion of federal and state government in company activities are all

illustrated in the collection.

The collection also documents the general resource utilization and environmental

practices (and lack of ecological awareness) of Southern lumbermen during the early part of the


twentieth century.

Black workers formed a large portion of the workforce in the southern lumber industry.

The collection documents racial aspects of company labor practices, the labor union movement,

and social relations in the segregated company towns.

The collection is arranged into six series: Correspondence, Financial Records,

Reports, Photographs and Maps, Economic and Lumber Industry, and Volumes. A series

list follows.

Series List I Correspondence, 1901-1945 f. 1-2948 II. Financial Records, 1904-1953 f. 2949-3139

A. Annual Statements, 1916-1953 f. 2949-3005 B. Audit Reports, 1908-1945 f. 3006-3027 C. Voucher Letters, 1914 f. 3028-3068 D. Miscellaneous Records, 1904-1953 f. 3069-3139

III. Reports f. 3140-3477 A. Employee Reports f. 3140-3183

1. Wage Schedules, 1915-1920, 1951 f. 3140-3150 2. Employee Accident Reports, 1915-1928 f. 3151-3183

B. Plant Inspection Reports, 1903-1934 f. 3184-3212 C. Appraisal Reports, 1921, 1936-1951 f. 3213-3230 D. Inventories, 1922-1942 f. 3231-3263 E. Lumber Reports, 1908-1939 f. 3264-3275 F. Oil and Gas Reports, 1935-1939 f. 3276-3279 G. Salesmen's Reports, 1916-1937 f. 3280-3288 H. Forest Fire Reports, 1927-1939 f. 3289-3309 I. Land Records/Reports, 1906-1939 f. 3310-3411 J. Insurance Policies, 1924-1950 f. 3412-3471

IV. Photographs and Maps f. 3471-3477a V. Economic and Lumber Industry, 1905-1939 f. 3478-3836 VI. Volumes (All volumes have been microfilmed) v. 1-268

A. Letter books, 1902-1915 v. 1-124 B. Newspapers, 1913-1914 v. 125 C. General Journals, 1902-1928 v. 126-133 D. Cash Journals, 1916-1956 v. 134-141 E. Voucher Records, 1906-1953 v. 142-175 F. Purchase Journals, 1925-1952 v. 176-181 G. Customer's Journals, 1935-1953 v. 182-187 H. General Ledgers, 1902-1953 v. 188-243 I. Petty Journals, 1909-1913 v. 244-245 J. Assorted Journals and Ledgers, 1920-1953 v. 246-253 K. Railroad Journals, 1914-1948 v. 254-258 L. Land and Lumber Records, 1902-1940 v. 259-263 M. Smalley Tie and Timber Co., Records, 1916-1927 v. 264 N. Louisiana Sawmill Co., Records, 1925-1929 v. 265-267 O. Letter Register, 1908 v. 268


Because the Correspondence series is so extensive, no attempt has been made to index

or describe every significant company event. What follows is a general summary of the kinds of

topics that appear throughout the correspondence section. Specific noteworthy events are later

highlighted. The correspondence, arranged chronologically, dates from 1901 through 1945.

The correspondence series contains letters concerning the sale and purchase of land and

timber rights, deeds, descriptions of land, maps, land prices, negotiations with landowners to

purchase land, and correspondence with lawyers concerning legal title to land. Letters from men

and women inquiring about job openings in the sawmill, on the railroad, in the town as doctors,

barbers, store and hotel managers, and in the office are also in the collection.

There is material on the construction of new sawmills at Clarks (1902-1903), Standard

(1906-1907), and Oakdale and Glenmora (1918-1919), and the rebuilding of mills after fires;

description of construction, specifications for buildings and materials needed, machinery and

equipment for mills and railroads, construction of railroads, correspondence with locomotive and

machinery makers, problems installing machinery and getting mills into operation, breakdowns

in equipment, financial problems and difficulties in meeting loans and making payments for

machinery. There are also letters about repairing, replacing, and upgrading machinery already in

operation, and making buildings and machinery fire and accident safe.

Railroad and freight rates; shipping costs; problems with railroad car shortages; the

Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad Company; the Louisiana Railroad Commission concerning

railroad rules and regulations, shipping rates and routes, depots, etc.; and the Interstate Com-

merce Commission are covered in the correspondence.

Taxes and tax assessments, local parish and state tax assessment and tax policies, war

profits taxes during World War I as well as banking transactions and financial arrangements,

company dividends and stock offerings, lists of stockholders can be found in the series.

Lumber industry organizations such as the Southern Lumbermen's Association, Southern

Lumber Manufacturers' Association, Southern Lumber Operators' Association, Yellow Pine

Manufacturers' Association, and Texas and Louisiana Saw Mill Association concerning freight

rates, control of competition, maintaining uniform grades of lumber, uniform terms of sale, the

labor situation and prevention of unionization, shortage of railroad cars, uniform wages and

hours, and other forms of cooperation among lumbermen, especially during World War I are a

part of the series.

Union activities are covered as well. During 1911 and 1912 the Brotherhood of Timber

Workers (BTW), led by Arthur Lee Emmerson, was active in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and

Arkansas. The labor union sent representatives to lumber camps and mills to organize locals and

sign up members. The BTW organized both black and white workers and the position of blacks

in the union was often an issue. In 1912 the BTW became associated with the Industrial Workers

of the World, also known as the Wobblies.

In this collection, most of the information about the union is contained in documents

representing the operators, who were strongly opposed to having their industry unionized. To

combat the labor union, mill owners and managers formed the Southern Lumber Operators'

Association, which coordinated efforts to suppress the union. Undercover detectives were sent to

the lumber camps and towns to identify union sympathizers, who were later fired and blacklisted.

The SLOA regularly reported to its members on union strength and sympathy among workers in

lumber mills throughout the region and on the degree of support the union received from mer-

chants and town people. Worker interest in labor unions, especially the IWW, continued


throughout the 1910s and the company persisted in trying to weed out union sympathizers.

Lumber grades and quality, costs of shipping and railroad rates, shipping and filling

orders on time, correspondence with salesmen about dissatisfied customers appear as subjects in

the correspondence.

Clarks, Standard, Slagle, Glenmora, and the numerous lumber camps were essentially

company towns, under the direct control of the company. The company played a leading role in

establishing churches and schools, operating stores, garages, and barbershops, running hotels and

boarding houses, building and renting houses, and supplying medical care. At various times the

company tried to control drinking and gambling and other leisure activities of its workers. Such

town activities are described in this series.

Workmen's compensation is a subject in the correspondence. Lumber mills were

dangerous places and workers were frequently injured on the job. The company was reluctant to

admit fault and to pay compensation to workers and their families for injuries or deaths. In 1915

the state of Louisiana mandated workmen's compensation and the regular reporting of accidents

by the company doctor to an insurance company for payment to the injured worker or his family.

The correspondence is a source of letterhead stationary containing drawings of lumber

mills, lumber, trees, forests, and logs; railroads; machinery, stores, hotels, wagons, and loading of

goods.

The Financial Records series includes annual statements for the Louisiana Central

Lumber Company and other subsidiaries dating from 1916 to 1953. The statements include

records of log and lumber sales, land and timber accounts, cost of manufacturing, lumber ship-

ments, profit and loss statements, inventory of houses, and financial records of the company store

and ice plant. Statements for some years are missing.

There are also audit reports for the years 1908 to 1945 and voucher letters for 1914.

Voucher letters authorized payment of bills and other disbursements and often contained corres-

pondence and a description of the charges; includes records of company stores, ice plant, and

railroads.

The miscellaneous records in this series contains financial records of the Louisiana

Central Lumber Company, Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad Company, Forest Lumber

Company, White-Grandin Lumber Company, Slagle Naval Stores Company, and the Exchange

Sawmills Sales Company. The records are organized chronologically and include sawmill,

payroll, investment, and insurance records; tax notices and receipts; balance sheets; store,

lighting, foundry, ice plant, and hotel accounts; manufacturing and industrial plant reports; and

bank balances.

The Reports series includes reports on employees, plant inspections, inventories, lumber,

oil and gas, and forest fires, as well as salesmen's reports, land records, and insurance policies.

Economic and Lumber Industry series has reports, bulletins, newsletters, statistical

compilations, promotional literature, periodicals, and other materials concerning the U.S. lumber

industry, the southern lumber market, and general U.S. and world economic and trade conditions.

The series is arranged alphabetically by topic, name of organization, or title of publication, and

chronologically thereunder. The bulk of the material dates from World War I through the 1920s.

The financial records of the Louisiana Central company, found in the Volumes series, are

exceptionally complete and comprise one of the most valuable sections of the records. The

general ledgers document all financial transactions from 1902 to 1953. Voucher records exist for

49 of the 51 years that Louisiana Central was in existence. Along with the cash and purchase


ledgers, customer's journals, and assorted financial papers, most of the company's financial

history is documented. The series also includes some financial documents of Louisiana Central's

associate companies. The volumes are on microfilm.

FOLDER LIST

Correspondence Series

f. 1-18 1901-1902

f. 3 Legality and validity of coupon system at company store at Clarks.

f. 8 Transfer of assets of Forest Lumber Company to Louisiana Central

Lumber Company.

f. 9 Establishment of company store at Clarks and its policies on credit and

ordering.

f. 10 Drowning death of L.L. Hunter, secretary of Missouri Lumber and

Mining Company, in Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois, on 20 May 1902;

prices of construction of company houses in Clarks.

f. 12 Workers refusing to work; threat of strikes and labor agitation.

f. 17 Chart of lumber shipment rates.

f. 19-65 1902-1903

f. 19 Discussion with Tremont Lumber Company about division of land in

Jackson Parish in order to reduce competition; lumber prices.

f. 21 Purchase of equipment, machinery, and engines for construction of

double band saw mill and kilns.

f. 22 Detailed specifications on mill equipment.

f. 22, 23 Labor problems, opposition of whites to hiring of black workers, threat

of violence.

f. 31 Details about bids on saw mill.

f. 40 Hiring Mexican laborers at Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company at

Fisher, Louisiana.

f. 41-42 Layout of town and mill at Clarks.

f. 47 Establishment of school in Clarks.

f. 65 Announcement of meeting to discuss uniform wage scale.

f. 66-105 1903

f. 66 Employee hospital and medical care.

f. 76, 80 Plans for company store.

f. 83 Death benefits and problems of widow following death of her husband

at the mill.

f. 85 Missouri Lumber and Mining Company mill at Grandin, Missouri,

shut down following strike and attempt by workers to organize labor

union; contracting for Mexican labor in Beaumont, Texas.

f. 89 Electrical specifications for saw mill.

f. 90, 92 Installation of electricity in saw mill.

f. 100-101 Giving company land for schools and churches in Clarks.

f. 100-102 Complaints from other saw mills about LCLC hiring away their


workers by offering higher wages.

f. 106-124 1903-1904

f. 106 Discussion of necessity of teaching high school courses at Clarks

school.

f. 107 Organized labor at mills in Texas.

f. 107-108 Sawyer injured in accident at mill, discussion of injury, recovery time,

and liability of company to pay medical costs and lost wages.

f. 111 Arrangements with other lumber companies concerning the height of

cutting stumps.

f. 114 Suggestion to cut wages because of decline in lumber industry and

ready supply of workers; grading lumber and material used in railroad

cars.

f. 122 Labor trouble at mill in Clarks caused by opposition of whites to hiring

of black laborers.

f. 125-193 1904-1905

f. 125 Discussion of huge investment in construction of mill at Clarks and

need to cut operating expenses and increase capital stock.

f. 125-126 Problem of over-production and surplus of lumber, other lumber

companies cutting prices, meeting of lumber operators to discuss

regulation of prices and competition.

f. 130 Establishment of school in Clarks and problems with school board.

f. 136 Plans for school building.

f. 137 Reducing wages and number of operating hours to deal with problem

of oversupply of lumber.

f. 138-139 Southern Lumber Manufacturers' Association, figures on output of

lumber and reducing output in southern states.

f. 139 Circular from National Association of Manufacturers concerning the

defeat of eight-hour bill and other labor bills in U.S. Congress.

f. 147-148 Memos to mill foremen and edgermen about cutting and trimming

boards to maintain standard quality of lumber; also in following

folders letters about grades and quality of lumber.

f. 155 List of wage scale at LCLC saw mill.

f. 170 Railroad rates for shipment of lumber.

f. 173 Attempt to organize labor union at LCLC.

f. 178 Organization of labor unions and reduction of workday to ten hours a

day.

f. 184 Beginning of process to incorporate Ouachita and Northwestern

Railroad Company, a subsidiary of LCLC.

f. 194-231 1905-1906

f. 194 Daily rains for two weeks.

f. 199 Proposed purchase of Urania Lumber Company.

f. 200 Outbreak of yellow fever.

f. 220, 221 Correspondence from C.E. Slagle to J.W. Clarkson about ways to run

railroad, timber, and logging operations more efficiently and economi-

cally. Continues in following folders.


f. 225 Proposed contract with Stubbs and Russell Attorneys to act as com-

pany lawyers.

f. 226 Detailed explanation of ordering and pricing policies of LCLC and

necessity of mills not to sell below prices set by the lumber exchange.

f. 231 List of officers of Yellow Pine Manufactures Association for 1906.

f. 232-244 1906

f. 232 Plans for meeting of Louisiana directors of Yellow Pine Manufacturers

Association.

f. 233 Proposed state law to provide for expropriation of property for logging

roads, sawmills, and other plants for developing timber resources of

the state.

f. 237 J.W. Clarkson complaining about poor quality of workers and prob-

lems they cause.

f. 243, 245, 251 Earthquake in San Francisco and impact on lumber industry and

insurance companies.

f. 243 Question of taxation of Missouri corporation if property located and

taxes paid in another state.

f. 244 Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company institutes ten-hour work day.

f. 245-308 1906-1907

f. 245, 247, 249 Outbreak of small pox in Monroe, Louisiana.

f. 246 Drop in orders and prices, surplus stock.

f. 250-252 Discussion of kind of housing to build for black workers.

f. 265 Purchase of Standard Lumber Company.

f. 266 Organization of Southern Lumber Operators' Association in response

to labor troubles and organization of labor union in Lake Charles,

Louisiana.

f. 269 Membership list and constitution of Southern Lumber Operators'

Association.

f. 271, 274 Reports on mills in Wisconsin and Minnesota that were inspected with

possibility of purchase by LCLC.

f. 271 Purchase of equipment for new mill in Standard, Louisiana, discussion

of design of mill, materials used in construction of buildings, cost, fire

prevention measures, etc. Correspondence concerning construction of

mill continues into 1907.

f. 279 Possible attempts to unionize loggers and teamsters in logging camp.

f. 286 Specifications for boilers and mill equipment at Standard.

f. 298 Shortage of railroad cars in the South. Discussion continues in follow-

ing folders.

f. 304-305 Arranging financing for final payment for purchase of Standard Lum-

ber Company.

f. 309-388 1907

f. 309 Statement of corporate relationship between Louisiana Long Leaf

Lumber Company and the Victoria, Fisher and Western Railroad

Company, also concerning the Hepburn Act.

f. 310 Politics of tax assessment and preventing increase in taxes on lumber


companies.

f. 310, 313 Serious shortage of railroad cars on Iron Mountain Railway.

f. 311, 313 Plan to deduct parish road taxes from employees' pay; plan rejected.

f. 314 Government investigation of lumber trust by Gifford Pinchot, Forest

Service, Department of Agriculture.

f. 316 Samples of metallic roof paints.

f. 323, 325 Description of sanitarium for treatment of drug and alcohol addictions;

loaning money to an employee for treatment at sanitarium.

f. 326, 329 Report and profit analysis of company store in Clarks; selling goods in

logging camps.

f. 326, 336-338 Continuing shortage of railroad cars, especially box cars.

f. 327,329-331,335, 340 Correspondence with employee, his wife, and doctors at sanitarium

about treatment for alcoholism.

f. 328 Report on timber lands near Acapulco, Mexico.

f. 338 Legal issues about sale of school lands.

f. 341 Dynamite explosion that destroyed two houses in camp on July 4th.

f. 348 Labor shortage and need to pay higher wages; cotton picking paying

better wages than saw mill work.

f. 349, 351 Railroad accident, one man killed.

f. 353 Estimates on cost of building forty miles of railroad, wages of

construction crew.

f. 356 More about railroad accident.

f. 359 Insurance inspection report on Clarks mill.

f. 360, 363 Specifications for ice plant at Clarks.

f. 367 Copy of 1904 contract between LCLC and St. Louis, Iron Mountain

and Southern Railway Company.

f. 369, 372 Meeting of local businessmen to discuss poor service on Iron Moun-

tain Railway.

f. 371-373, 375 Discussion of solutions to problem of lumber shrinking during drying

process.

f. 376 Continuing shortage of railroad cars.

f. 377-388 Nationwide financial problems; bank closures; shortage of currency

and inability to get loans; inability to pay workers or pay bills; dis-

cussion of reducing work week to three or four days; discussion of

reducing wages for skilled or unskilled workers; instead of cash

payments for labor, giving company checks that can only be used at

company store or for rent on company houses; discussion of closing

mills; depression in lumber industry with low prices, overstock of

lumber, and slow movement of railroad cars.

f. 379 Opening railroad depot and telegraph at Standard.

f. 381-382 Complaints about inequality of tax assessment increases.

f. 388 Continuing troubles with Iron Mountain Railway about adequate

number of railroad cars.

f. 389-406 1907-1908

f. 389-394 Continued discussion about hour and wage reductions; predictions of


continued hard economic times in 1908; closing Clarks plant from

mid-December to beginning of January.

f. 397 Communication with governor about taxation.

f. 398 Report on financial status and problems during 1907 in plants at Clarks

and Standard; chart showing running time of saw mills in January

1908.

f. 399-400 Information about sizes, grades, types, etc. of hardwoods; putting hard-

wood mill in operation.

f. 404 Formation of Texas and Louisiana Saw Mill Association; unequal tax

assessment of long and short leaf pine.

f. 407-466 1908

f. 407 More discussion about hardwood mill and putting it into operation;

expenses and losses, six-month lumber sales ending February 29,

1908.

f. 408-411, 413, 418 Fire in mill at Clarks, dry kilns and 6,000,000 feet of lumber de-

stroyed, $100,000 loss; rebuilding kilns; insurance settlements.

f. 417 Chart of railroad shipping rates for lumber in Kansas, Nebraska,

Colorado.

f. 418 Forest Service bulletin on shortleaf pine.

f. 419-421 Fire at Clarks and insurance settlements.

f. 422, 427-429 Fire and insurance settlements.

f. 422, 424 Low prices for lumber and financial losses for manufacturers.

f. 423 Hardwood mills at Fisher, Clarks, and Standard; list of members of

Texas and Louisianans Saw Mill Assn.

f. 428 Louisiana Federation of Women's Clubs request for support for

establishment of chair of forestry at a Louisiana university; circular

about benefits of forests.

f. 431-432 Distribution of stock of LCLC and whether corporation can hold stock

in another corporation or railroad; probe by Interstate Commerce

Commission concerning trusts.

f. 432 Celebration by blacks of Emancipation Day on June 19 at Clarks.

f. 433-434 Plan to whitewash houses in Negro and Italian section of Clarks.

f. 437-446 Accident at Clarks mill with extensive damage to mill and machinery;

replacing machinery and repairing mill buildings.

f. 439 Weighing lumber.

f. 443 Chart of cost of production from 16 mills by Texas and Louisiana Saw

Mill Association.

f. 455 Merchandise bought for sale at company store at Standard.

f. 460 Instructions for new accounting system at Clarks.

f. 461 Reasons company will not pay workers time and a half for working on

Sundays; chart of wages paid to saw mill workers in the Northwest.

f. 463 Altercation between black and white workers; child labor laws.

f. 464, 466 Tax assessments on timber land, changes in the rates and categories of

timber land.

f. 465-466 Problems with drying kilns at Clarks mill.


f. 467-485 1908-1909

f. 467 Bookkeeping system for payroll records.

f. 468-470, 473-476 Tax assessments on timber land.

f. 468 Price list and description of bookkeeping supplies; contract for dust

collecting system.

f. 469 Railroad accident between engine and cow.

f. 470-480 Construction, efficient operation, and other problems with drying

kilns.

f. 474 Agreement on reduction of parish taxes.

f. 479 Discussion of shutting down mills around Christmas and New Years

because of slow sales.

f. 482 Grading and maintaining standards of lumber.

f. 484 Details about costs and methods of making molding.

f. 485 Chart comparing construction costs in major U.S. cities, 1907-1908.

f. 486-552 1909

f. 486 Using hardwood mill to saw yellow pine.

f. 487 Tariff revision and lumber industry.

f. 488 Wages in Clarks and Standard mills.

f. 493 Conditions at company store at Standard.

f. 494 Report about turpentine and rosin production.

f. 496 List of land recently purchased by LCLC.

f. 497 Issuance of corporation stock in LCLC, list of LCLC stockholders.

f. 498 Information from detective company describing investigative work it

will do on internal conditions in mills, employee loyalty, etc.

f. 509 Decrease in production, reducing operations.

f. 512 Damage caused by heavy rains and flooding at Standard.

f. 515 Chart of railroad cars of lumber shipped from LCLC and Missouri

Lumber and Mining Company mills.

f. 517 List of stockholders of Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad Company.

f. 518-519 Increase in tax assessment in Winn Parish.

f. 527 Mills running on short time.

f. 530 Construction costs in large U.S. cities, 1906-1909; Henry Hardtner,

president of Urania Lumber Company, elected as state representative.

f. 537 Agreement for telephone at Iron Mountain Railway depot in Clarks.

f. 538 Hiring special agents at Clarks; problems with detective.

f. 539 Plans for theater building in Clarks; employee accused of using mor-

phine.

f. 540-541 Appropriation of land for railroad right-of-way.

f. 540-543 Plans for showing motion pictures in Clarks.

f. 541 Lumber price list.

f. 544 Exchange of land between LCLC and Urania Lumber Company and

sale of land to Forest Lumber Company; competition between LCLC

and ULC.

f. 545 Railroad cars of lumber shipped during October 1909.

f. 549 Proposed deed of transfer of property from Louisiana Long Leaf


Lumber Company to Victoria, Fisher and Western Railroad Company.

f. 551, 554, 557, 558 Camp for students of Forest School of Yale University held at Clarks.

f. 553-561 1909-1910

f. 553 Conservation of forests, selling cut-over land to government for

reforestation.

f. 554-555 Extension of Oauchita Railroad.

f. 558 Books for public library at Clarks; horses, mules, and cattle at Stan-

dard; account of upkeep and of labor and equipment associated with

animals.

f. 559 Claims made against railroad companies over shipment of lumber;

reduction in operation of Standard mill, complaints that Standard mill

does not receive as much business as Clarks mill, fewer hours and

wages for workers, fewer railroad cars.

f. 560 Financial statement of White Hotel in Clarks.

f. 561 Plans to shut down Clarks and Standard plants for one day per week.

f. 562-599 1910

f. 562 Resignation, later withdrawn, of superintendent at Standard over

criticism of operation of mill.

f. 564-567 Corporation tax law.

f. 565-568 Uniform auditing and accounting system in all Missouri Lumber and

Land Exchange Company mills.

f. 566 Map of irrigation project of U.S. Reclamation Service in western U.S.

f. 573 Blue prints of ice and cold storage plant.

f. 577 American Lumberman article about yellow pine and low prices.

f. 579 Accounting and bookkeeping system for mills at Standard and Clarks;

railroad rates for commodities in Louisiana.

f. 580-581 Costs and sketch of house for superintendent at Standard.

f. 581 Taxation of timber land.

f. 588 Construction in major U.S. cities, 1909-1910.

f. 592 Implementation of new accounting system.

f. 593 Celebration of Emancipation Day, June 19, by blacks.

f. 593-594 Allowing time off with pay to company officers in case of illness or

death in family, two-week vacations.

f. 594 Analysis of timber land accounts, amount of timber and its value, cost

of timber and lands, stumpage cut and credited.

f. 598 Building railroad line twenty-five miles northwest of Clarks to connect

with Tremont and Gulf Railroad.

f. 600-637 1910-1911

f. 600 List of stockholders of Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad Company.

f. 609-610 Yellow Pine Manufacturers Association inspector's report on grades of

lumber from Clarks and Standard mills.

f. 611 By-laws and membership of Southwestern Short Line Railroad Asso-

ciation.

f. 621-622 Shut down of Clarks and Standard mills.

f. 626 List of stockholders and financial statement of Ouachita and


Northwestern Railroad.

f. 627-628 Arrangements for housing and water supply for Yale University, Forest

School camp.

f. 635-638 LCLC paying off loans made by G.W. Grandin.

f. 638-719 1911

f. 638 Mills closing down for five days.

f. 638 Inspection report by Louisiana State Board of Health concerning

sanitation and health conditions in Clarks, hookworm disease, how to

build a sanitary privy, poor condition of housing for blacks; inventory

of supplies for past three years.

f. 642 List of LCLC stockholders.

f. 643 Statement of trade conditions in yellow pine industry; financial state-

ment of Hotel White in Clarks.

f. 644 Financial statement of Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad.

f. 645 Report on attempts to form union; Yellow Pine Graders and Inspectors

Organization; statement of principles and goals of union.

f. 647 Financial statement of stores in Clarks, Standard, Fisher, and Victoria;

hospital and medical care at Clarks, Standard, and log camps.

f. 652-653 Young boys getting drunk in Clarks, Boy Scouts, other incidents about

people in Clarks.

f. 653 Sawyers wanting increased wages.

f. 655-656 Establishment of high school in Clarks.

f. 655-657 Information about organization of union, Brotherhood of Timber

Workers (BTW), by Arthur Lee Emmerson; report about formation of

International Timber Workers Association and demand for eight-hour

day; reports from Southern Lumber Operators Association (SLOA) on

union activities and ways to combat formation of unions; reports on

union activities and organizers.

f. 656-662, 664, 665, 673 Henry Hardtner and problem with thefts of oak for staves.

f. 657, 659 Meeting of SLOA concerning union organization and combating

union.

f. 659 Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company (LLLLC) forcing employees to

sign anti-union cards promising not to join union.

f. 660-661, 664, 671 Building lodge halls for blacks.

f. 664 Report on union activities of Emmerson and other BTW organizers.

f. 665 Building railroad depot at Standard.

f. 666 Operating plants four days a week as way to control unionization.

f. 667 Union activity at LLLLC in Fisher; amount of land and timber owned

by Tremont Lumber Company.

f. 668 Resolutions of BTW; "An Address to All Workers in the Lumber

Industry" by BTW; financial accounting of water and electricity usage

at Clarks, 1905-1911.

f. 669 Shipment of lumber from Missouri Lumber and Land Exchange

Company (MLLEC) mills.

f. 669 Report of meeting of SLOA on combating union activity; reports from


two detectives from Pinkerton's National Detective Agency sent to

Clarks and Standard to investigate union activity.

f. 670-675 Daily reports from Pinkerton detectives.

f. 671 Financial statement of operating and construction expenses of Oua-

chita and Northwestern Railroad.

f. 671, 680 Amount of lumber shipped from mills.

f. 676 Handbill, A.L. Emmerson, President of BTW, scheduled to speak at

Clarks and Standard.

f. 683 Comparison of average lumber prices, 1904-1908; report on union

activities in Clarks and Standard.

f. 686-691 Reports from SLOA on union organizing activity in Louisiana and

Texas; resolutions for dealing with union; union activity in Fisher at

LLLLC mill; resolutions of workers against union.

f. 690 Fire in planing mill at MLMC.

f. 693 SLOA membership list; list of union locals; reports of union organiza-

tion at Clarks.

f. 695-696 Reports of union activity at Standard; non-union resolution at Stan-

dard.

f. 699-700, 702 Reports of union activity.

f. 702-704 Daily reports from detective investigating union activity at Clarks.

f. 705 Annual statement and list of subscribers of Manufacturing Lumber-

men's Underwriters.

f. 709 Mills closed because of union problems now resuming operations;

reports of BTW loss of support and strength.

f. 711 Report from union, decision to return to work and continue union

organization efforts despite non-union promises made to operators.

f. 714, 718 Specifications and reports on locomotives LCLC may purchase.

f. 717 Train schedule of Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad.

f. 718 Reports on files kept by SLOA on sawmill workers and their union

affiliation.

f. 719 Report on declining strength of BTW.

f. 720-734 1911-1912

f. 720 Report about projected coal strike in 1912.

f. 721 Appeal of BTW for support of black workers.

f. 723 Financial statement of Hotel White, Clarks.

f. 724-725 LCLC donating money to band association in Clarks.

f. 727-729 Whether dentist should set up practice in Clarks.

f. 728 Accounting procedures for traffic department.

f. 729 Statement of non-productive labor costs, salaries of managers and

foremen, LCLC.

f. 733 Specifications and reports on locomotive Ouachita and Northwestern

Railroad may purchase.

f. 734, 740 Robberies at store at Clarks.

f. 734 Blueprints of ice and cold storage plants.

f. 735-828 1912


f. 735, 741 Report from Louisiana State Board of Health on water supply in

Clarks.

f. 736-739 Information and specifications for ice making plant.

f. 738 Price lists for lumber at MLLEC mills.

f. 744 Report on locomotive being built for LCLC; robbery at store at Stan-

dard.

f. 745 Financial statement about hospital fund at Clarks.

f. 750 Robberies at store at Clarks.

f. 751, 754, 757 Problem with drinking water at Standard and proposed solution of

building plant to distill water.

f. 754-757 Reports that lumber union is growing in strength and will begin

organizing efforts again; BTW holding convention in Alexandria with

speakers from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Bill Haywood

and Covington Hall; BTW votes to affiliate with IWW; list of dele-

gates (local and colored lodges) to BTW convention.

f. 758-759, 762 Plans to build water distillation plant at Standard.

f. 761 Description of system for heating buildings in Clarks with steam heat,

including map of Clarks; problem of excessive drinking and gambling

at Clarks log camp.

f. 762 Suggestions from SLOA on ways to combat union; reports from SLOA

on BTW and IWW activity.

f. 767-768 Reports about mill operations at Standard and Clarks, analysis of cost

and efficiency of men and operations of plants.

f. 773-776 Reports by SLOA on clash between BTW union sympathizers and

workers and company operatives at Galloway Lumber Company at

Grabow, Louisiana; four men were killed and forty were injured; A.L.

Emmerson, president of BTW, and eight other men were arrested,

jailed, and indicted for murder and conspiracy.

f. 776-777 Railroad car shortage.

f. 778 Inspection report on grades of lumber at Standard and Clarks mills.

f. 787 Wage scale established by the National Industrial Union of Forest and

Lumber Workers, IWW, in the Pacific Northwest.

f. 792 List of locals and assessments paid to BTW.

f. 801 Financial account of ice plant construction.

f. 803-817 SLOA reports and newspaper accounts of trial and acquittal in Lake

Charles of A.L. Emmerson and eight other BTW members for the

deaths at Grabow.

f. 805 Discussion of instituting semi-monthly pay day.

f. 806 Audit of financial records of store at Clarks.

f. 813 Circular about selling national forest timber.

f. 815 Efficiency reports on Clarks and Standard plants; number of men

doing specific jobs.

f. 816-818 Raise in wages for some workers.

f. 820 List of job categories and wages at Clarks.

f. 821 Brotherhood of Timber Workers circular about strike at Merryville


with appeal for funds and provisions.

f. 829-843 1912-1913

f. 829 Blacklist of employees at American Lumber Company with union

sympathies.

f. 830 Brotherhood of Timber Workers circular about strike at Merryville

opposing use of blacklist.

f. 830, 834-837 Report on inspection of boarding houses in Clarks and Standard,

condition in black boarding houses described as poor.

f. 834 Detective's report on BTW convention in Alexandria.

f. 838 Wage scale established by National Industrial Union of Forest and

Lumber Workers.

f. 839 List of jobs and wage scale at Standards.

f. 841 Chart of average wages in Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana.

f. 844-997 1913

f. 844 List of employees at Luddington lumber mill with union (BTW)

affiliation and sympathies.

f. 846 Building a lodge hall for Negroes at Clarks; list of employees at

American Lumber Company in Merryville and their union sympathies;

chart of costs per logs sawed in 1912.

f. 849 Report on sanitation of some buildings in Clarks.

f. 851 Monthly payroll statistics at Clarks and Standard.

f. 851-856, 861 Robbery of company safe in Standard and reports of investigations by

detectives.

f. 958 Annual report, Caldwell Parish public schools. 1911-1912.

f. 874 Specifications and descriptions of saw mill and power machinery for

use at new mill in Oakdale, Louisiana.

f. 872-907 Throughout April and May, plans for opening of the new mill at

Oakdale, including hiring of employees, buying machinery, and

building company offices.

f. 885 Inspection report of Standard plant concerning living conditions and

housing.

f. 892 Circular for dry kilns.

f. 912 Reprint of magazine article on labor unions and syndicalism, and the

IWW; strike in silk mills in Paterson, New Jersey.

f. 926 Building a church at Oakdale.

f. 928 Reports of difficult times for unions.

f. 932 List of subscribers to union newspaper The Lumberjack.

f. 940 Fire in little mill at Clarks with much loss of property.

f. 941 Floor plan of general store.

f. 943 Prospect of union organization activity in Oakdale.

f. 945-947 Discussion of whether to rebuild little mill at Clarks.

f. 953, 965 Lumber, furniture, and fixtures for post office building in Clarks.

f. 954 Financial report on Forest Lumber Company in Oakdale.

f. 955 Copy of deed of land for State Agricultural High School between Olla

and Standard.


f. 961 Specifications for saw mill machinery; discussion of building hotel or

boarding house at Oakdale.

f. 965 Cost of erecting post office building in Clarks.

f. 973 Floor plan of boarding house in Oakdale.

f. 976 Floor plans of fuel plant in Clarks.

f. 977 Photograph of first car of lumber shipped from Forest Lumber Com-

pany in Oakdale.

f. 988 Hiring a black teacher for Clarks.

f. 990 Evaluation of operation of new mill at Oakdale.

f. 995-997, 1002 Problems of Methodist preacher at Standard camps.

f. 997 Medical facilities at Oakdale.

f. 998-1018 1913-1914

f. 998 Purchase of Victrola and records, list of records ordered.

f. 1000-1009 Reports of detectives on union activity in Oakdale.

f. 1002 Statement of operating costs of Oakdale mill.

f. 1004 List of labor charges for Standard mill and railroad company.

f. 1006 Missouri Supreme Court revoked charters and levied fines on lumber

companies, including Missouri Land and Lumber Company, that

violated anti-trust laws.

f. 1011-1015 Mrs. Powell, reporter from Kansas City Star, in Clarks to do story on

lumber mill and town.

f. 1016 Schedules of movies to be shown at Clarks.

f. 1018 Requiring leases on company houses in Clarks.

f. 1019-1159 1914

f. 1019 Reports of union activities in Oakdale; lease agreement for making

turpentine from pine timber.

f. 1021 Discussion of turpentining.

f. 1024 List of stockholders of LCLC.

f. 1027 Payment of $2025 to parents of man killed at sawmill in Clarks;

discussion of eight-hour day and why it is not necessary in sawmills.

f. 1033 Hiring blacks and having a mixed labor force to discourage labor

organizing, more worker solidarity with a white labor force, recollec-

tion that strike at Clarks was successful because most workers were

white.

f. 1034, 1036 Contract for turpentining.

f. 1038 Drawings of house floor plans.

f. 1043 Building church for blacks at Oakdale.

f. 1052, 1054, 1056 Making improvements to park in Clarks.

f. 1060 Uniform marking of railroad cars.

f. 1065 Workers compensation act in Louisiana.

f. 1067 List of voters at Clarks.

f. 1068 Extending water service to the black quarters in Clarks; earnings of

camp stores.

f. 1069 Proposed standards for grading yellow pine timber.

f. 1083, 1084, 1086 Men in company housing at Standard and Clarks.


f. 1089, 1091 Building lodge hall for blacks in Clarks.

f. 1092 List of employees living in company houses in Clarks.

f. 1096 LCLC and other lumber companies forced to cancel membership in

Yellow Pine Manufacturers Association because of anti-trust decision

of Missouri Supreme Court.

f. 1105 Speech by Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma about lumber trusts.

f. 1112 War in Europe disrupting export lumber trade.

f. 1116 Cutting wages and hours because of war and poor market conditions.

f. 1117 Evaluation of skidding operations at Standard.

f. 1119 Physicians' salaries, fees paid by employees, and medical services

provided for mill employees.

f. 1124-1126 Establishing school for blacks at Clarks.

f. 1128 Lumber mills in Louisiana shutting down, curtailing operations,

working with reduced hours and wages because of war and poor

market conditions.

f. 1130 Curtailment in production, reduction to four days per week at Oakdale;

paying employees twice a month instead of monthly.

f. 1131 Assessments for black school at Clarks.

f. 1132-1136 Fire at Standard which killed two men and completely destroyed the

mill; plans to rebuild mill.

f. 1138, 1141 Reports from Internal Revenue Service about taxes due from 1911.

f. 1142 Report and list of wage reductions and positions abolished at Oakdale.

f. 1142, 1144 Reports of blacks drinking, gambling, and buying bootleg liquor;

maintaining "moral uplift of the community" and "motor cars are going

to ruin some of our employees".

f. 1148 Further reductions in operating expenses at Clarks.

f. 1148-1152, 1154 Reduction in rent at black boarding house in Standard; having single

blacks who live in the country move to town so company can have

better control over their labor; having married blacks move from

country into company houses in town.

f. 1152, 1154 Using cash registers at company stores.

f. 1152 Flier about dry kilns.

f. 1153 List of employees not living in company houses.

f. 1160-1178 1914-1915

f. 1160 List of mules and other livestock at Standard.

f. 1163 Making further reductions at mill at Standard; list of employees not

living in company houses.

f. 1164 Dissolution of Southern Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association and

formation of new association.

f. 1165, 1167, 1173 Details of Louisiana workers compensation law which goes into effect

January 1915; workers compensation rates and liability insurance.

f. 1177 List of employees including race and marital status.

f. 1178 Itinerary for lumber salesmen's visit to exchange mills in Louisiana.

f. 1179-1350 1915

f. 1179 Monthly earnings for one year; summary of lumber business for 1914,


market conditions, low prices, and poor sales.

f. 1182 Rules governing hospital department and medical care for employees.

f. 1186 Diagrams and description of sanitary privies recommended by Louisi-

ana State Board of Health; subscription contract with Southern Pine

Association.

f. 1190 Payments to stockholders for 1914.

f. 1193 Operating expenses of company stores of Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber

Company for 1914.

f. 1196 Sales of Missouri Land and Lumber Exchange Company for 1914.

f. 1204 Financial statement of hospital operations in Clarks for 1914.

f. 1206 Statement of school fund, salaries, supplies, and how money was spent

in Clarks.

f. 1211 Fire in store at Oakdale.

f. 1227 New mill at Standard begins operations.

f. 1228 Discussion of further reductions in wages, hours, and operation of

mills.

f. 1233 Deducting 25 per month from wages for workmen's compensation

fund.

f. 1234-1235 10% reduction in time for all mills in Missouri Land and Lumber Ex-

change.

f. 1236 Discussion of forming organization to promote sales of pine.

f. 1238 Reductions in work force at Oakdale.

f. 1244 Anonymous letter protesting hiring of blacks in planing mill at Clarks.

f. 1247 Fire at camp store and robbery at store in Clarks.

f. 1248 Reports of railroad accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission.

f. 1272 Arrangements with dealership and garage in Shreveport to sell automo-

biles in Clarks.

f. 1273, 1282 Catching and trial of suspects in store robbery in Clarks.

f. 1274 "Lumbermen's Safety First, First Aid Manual," a YMCA publication.

f. 1290 Job descriptions of railroad employees.

f. 1298, 1300 Arrest of log scaler at Clarks in order to test legality of log scale act

passed by legislature.

f. 1317, 1322 Suit for negligence brought by LCLC employee against doctor in

Clarks.

f. 1334 Tentative agreement for incorporation of railroad company by Forest

Lumber Company and Bowman-Hicks Lumber Company.

f. 1336 Question of legality and liability in accident involving worker under

age 14.

f. 1339, 1342 Report on profits and renewal of contract of two-year turpentine

project.

f. 1348 Lease for turpentining of pine timber.

f. 1348, 1349 Problems with drinking and gambling in Clarks over Christmas holi-

days. Note: Since fall 1915, improved market conditions and in-

creased sales and production.

f. 1351-1487 1916


f. 1352 Contract with Ford Motor Company for car agency in Clarks.

f. 1354 Figures on amount paid for liability insurance premiums and amount

paid out.

f. 1355 Problems with drinking and gambling in Clarks over Christmas holi-

days.

f. 1358 $22 per share paid to LCLC stockholders for 1915.

f. 1360, 1361 LCLC buying out privately owned store in Clarks.

f. 1361 Summary statement of profits and losses for Forest Lumber Company

for 1915.

f. 1362, 1363 Discussion of quality, strength, and density of long leaf pine lumber.

f. 1366 Report on operations and profits of store in Clarks.

f. 1369, 1371 Profits from hardwood plant at Fisher.

f. 1370 Discussion of arrangements and profitability of turpentining.

f. 1372 Attempts to reduce drinking and dancing in Clarks.

f. 1378 Turpentining at Forest Lumber Company in Oakdale.

f. 1383 Statement showing sales by salesmen of Missouri Lumber and Land

Exchange for 1915.

f. 1388 Extension of water main into black section of Clarks. Note: Through-

out the spring of 1916 there was much discussion of high production,

low demand, falling prices, and the possibility of curtailing production.

f. 1395 Architect's description of additions to Slagle's house in Clarks.

f. 1396 Slagle's opinions about Workmen's Compensation Act.

f. 1397 Assessment of financial situation at Forest Lumber Company in

Oakdale.

f. 1409 Statement of school fund, 1915-1916.

f. 1410 Problem of children loafing around town late at night.

f. 1426 Analysis of store accounts at Oakdale.

f. 1432-1434 Proposed railroad strike by American Railways and Train Service

Brotherhood.

f. 1433 Parish fair in Standard, LaSalle Parish.

f. 1436 Specifications and sketches of domestic science cottage to be built at

Standard/Clarks high school.

f. 1436, 1440 Giving preference to those employees living in town in company

houses and using company store in Clarks.

f. 1437 List of employees living in the country.

f. 1453 Severe railroad car shortage in fall 1916.

f. 1456 Salaries of teachers at Clarks.

f. 1460 Negro prostitutes at lumber camps.

f. 1461, 1464, 1465 Detective investigation and reports about cutting of belts in the mill.

f. 1462-1464, 1468 Investigations, timber estimates, financial reports, and negotiations to

buy Mississippi Lumber Company. Correspondence continues from

October 1916 through February 1917 about the proposed timber and

land purchase in Mississippi. The Long Lumber Company eventually

purchased the land in July 1917.

f. 1472 Completion of railroad line between Clarks and Standard.


f. 1472-1476 Discussion of pay increases; lists of job categories, wages, and raises.

f. 1474 Statement and chart showing liability insurance premiums and amount

of payrolls.

f. 1475 J.B. White expense account for September to November.

f. 1488-1564 1917

f. 1488 Local taxes paid for 1916; competition between farmers and lumber

companies for labor.

f. 1491 Industrial tractors using electric storage batteries.

f. 1492-1494 Appointment by President Woodrow Wilson of J.B. White to the

Federal Shipping Board.

f. 1496, 1497 About federal taxes.

f. 1498 Chart comparing the timber sales of different lumber companies.

f. 1508 Purpose, organization, and plans of the IWW.

f. 1512 Labor shortage and need to raise wages because of the war and

migration of blacks to northern cities; overproduction and shortage of

railroad cars causing surplus inventory; remodeling and enlarging store

building in Clarks.

f. 1513-1515, 1521 Increasing wages 10% and high cost of living.

f. 1518 Railroad car shortage.

f. 1520-1521 Extension of Oakdale and Gulf Railway from Oakdale to Mamou.

f. 1526 Report of gambling and dice games and "knocking these Negroes up"

in Standard.

f. 1526, 1527 Workers registering for the draft in World War I.

f. 1530 Reports of labor unrest and migration of black labor to the North.

f. 1532 Improving the streets in and around Clarks.

f. 1533 Extension of town limits of Oakdale.

f. 1534 Labor shortage and wage increases.

f. 1538, 1540, 1548 Difficulty in filling orders for government contracts for lumber for

building ships.

f. 1539 LCLC indicted by U.S. government for accepting rebates; resignation

of J.B. White from Federal Shipping Board.

f. 1541-1544 Discussions with Ford Motor Company about setting up a garage and

service station in Clarks.

f. 1546 Detective report on I.W.W. organizing activity and strategy in the

South.

f. 1552, 1556-1560 Suit against Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad over hauling coal and

rebates; discussion of verdict and appeal of railroad suit.

f. 1562 Discussion of the purchase of Brewer and Edenborn lands southeast of

Clarks known as Catahoula lands.

f. 1565-1580 1917-1918

f. 1565-1569 Purchase of Catahoula and Gould lands.

f. 1567 Suit about extension of town limits of Oakdale; labor organizing in the

Northwest and 8-hour day.

f. 1569 Chart of production and costs at Clarks and Standard mills for 1917.

f. 1572 Government seizure, control, and operation of railroads for duration of


World War I.

f. 1574 Forest Lumber Company operating mill 20 hours a day.

f. 1576 Railroad pass over Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad.

f. 1577, 1580 Chart of federal taxes, excess profits and income taxes for Forest

Lumber Company for 1917.

f. 1580 Discussion of labor shortage and training new sources of labor,

including women.

f. 1581-1652 1918

f. 1581 Reports of increased labor organization activity.

f. 1584 Statement of sales operations for 1917; summary of operations of

Missouri Lumber and Land Exchange.

f. 1585-1590 Negotiations for buying Gould lands; description of Gould lands

bought by LCLC.

f. 1585 Blue prints and description of portable cottage.

f. 1591 Formation of new company to buy Gould lands from Forest Lumber

Company; plans of Southern Lumber Operators' Association to begin

systematic campaign of welfare work to offset union activity.

f. 1593, 1603 Proposals and legal papers concerning formation of a new company,

Louisiana Sawmill Company at Glenmora.

f. 1597 Inventory of equipment and report on condition of mill of Louisiana

Sawmill Company at Glenmora.

f. 1599-1601 Purchase of Edenborn, Gould, and Pardee land and timber.

f. 1603 Report from lawyers about increasing stock.

f. 1604 Slagle urges company to buy Edenborn lands.

f. 1606-1607 Option to purchase Edenborn lands not renewed.

f. 1610 Sale of Gould lands; stock subscriptions for Louisiana Sawmill

Company; government fixing prices for lumber.

f. 1611 Report of principal assets of Louisiana Sawmill Company.

f. 1612 Report from the ICC on examination of accounts of Oakdale and Gulf

Railway.

f. 1613 List of stockholders of Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company.

f. 1613-1617 Income taxes, excess profits tax, and legality of paying dividends to

avoid taxes.

f. 1614-1616 Sale of Gould lands and Louisiana Sawmill Company.

f. 1624 Report of IWW trial of Bill Haywood in Chicago.

f. 1626 Formation of Louisiana Sawmill Company, Inc. by joining assets of

Louisiana Sawmill Company, Ltd. and Forest Lumber Company.

f. 1630 Shortage of labor and housing in Clarks.

f. 1634 Formation of International Union of Timberworkers affiliated with

American Federation of Labor; purchase of Gould lands and formation

of Louisiana Sawmill Company.

f. 1636, 1637 Influenza epidemic at Glenmora and Clarks.

f. 1637 Brochures about Wayne gasoline pumps and storage tanks.

f. 1640-1642, 1644, 1645 Capital Issues Board initial refusal to approve increase of stock of

Louisiana Sawmill Company and eventual approval.


f. 1649 Discussion of exchange of land and timber with Pickering Lumber

Company.

f. 1653-1670 1918-1919

f. 1653-1655 Formation of White-Grandin Lumber Company at Slagle, Louisiana,

near Leesville; closing of Missouri Lumber and Mining Company in

West Eminence, Missouri, and selling equipment to White-Grandin

Lumber Company; construction of new sawmill at Slagle.

f. 1657 Financial arrangements between Forest Lumber Company and Louisi-

ana Sawmill Company.

f. 1659 Closing the Gould land deal.

f. 1663 Use of the name "Slagle" for Slagle Naval Stores Company.

f. 1668 Capital needed to establish White-Grandin Lumber Company; discus-

sion of welfare work, movies, gymnasium, library, and YMCA at new

mill town of Slagle, Louisiana.

f. 1669 Federal taxes for LCLC for 1918.

f. 1671-1751 1919

f. 1671 Taxes paid in various parishes by LCLC.

f. 1676 Legal papers for sale of land by Louisiana Sawmill Company to White-

Grandin Lumber Company.

f. 1681 Timber trade between White-Grandin and Gulf Lumber Company.

f. 1685 Opening of White-Grandin Lumber Company store at Slagle.

f. 1687, 1688 Detective reports on union activity and job and wage satisfaction in

Clarks and Standard.

f. 1691, 1692, 1695 J.B. White's illness caused by stroke and high blood pressure.

f. 1696 Raymond White, son of J.B. White, to begin work at St. Louis office

of Missouri Lumber and Land Exchange.

f. 1704, 1705, 1708 Attempts to bring back to the South black laborers who migrated to the

North.

f. 1712-1729 Detective reports about making of staves from stolen timber in Sikes,

Chester, Clarks, Kelly, and Standard.

f. 1716 Eight-hour day and wage increase.

f. 1728 Agreement on timber trade and turpentining between Louisiana

Sawmill Company and Gulf Lumber Company.

f. 1731, 1741 Explanations of Gould land deal and division of land among various

lumber companies, total purchase price of over $9 million.

f. 1732 Organization of unions led by blacks.

f. 1733 Fear of union organization work at White-Grandin Lumber Company

near Leesville.

f. 1735, 1737 Copy of photograph of delegates to conference of International Union

of Timber Workers in Mississippi.

f. 1738 Petition to Slagle to find band leader and instructor for Clarks Brass

Band.

f. 1740 Detective report about International Union of Timber Workers in

Leesville; report on construction of mill of White-Grandin Lumber

Company in Slagle; blacks forming a race league or Producers and


Consumer Alliance near DeRidder.

f. 1741 Detective report on organization of race league or union in DeRidder.

f. 1742-1745, 1751 Discussion of oil leases, oil drilling, and the oil business.

f. 1745 Financial statement for White-Grandin Lumber Company.

f. 1749 Louisiana Supreme Court decision reducing tax assessment on lands

owned by Forest Lumber Company

f. 1750-1756 Oil business and drilling on Louisiana Central land.

f. 1751 Business climate in Germany; taxes for Louisiana Central for 1919.

f. 1752-1765 1919-1920

f. 1757-1760 Sawmill at Glenmora burns down, discussions regarding rebuilding.

f. 1762 International Union of Timberworkers activities in Florida; lumber

prices.

f. 1763 1919 net profit for Louisiana Sawmill Company

f. 1765 Louisiana Central profit and loss statement for 1919.

f. 1766-1883 1920

f. 1766 Forest Lumber Company statistics, 1919, and listing of lands.

f. 1768 Louisiana Central paying Missouri tax; rebuilding Louisiana Sawmill

Company mill at Glenmora.

f. 1772 Use of black labor at White-Grandin mill at Slagle, La.

f. 1774 Assessment of the lumber market by the Southern Pine Association.

f. 1775 Timber theft in Slagle

f. 1778, 1780 Influenza epidemic at White-Grandin mill in Slagle

f. 1788 List of stockholders of Louisiana Sawmill Company.

f. 1801 Statement of assets and liabilities, Louisiana Sawmill Company;

selling of cut-over lands.

f. 1809-1815 Proposed severance timber tax by state of Louisiana.

f. 1820 Report on annual convention of International Union of Timberworkers.

f. 1842 Lumber market conditions.

f. 1852 Plans for YMCA facilities at Clarks, Standard, and Leesville.

f. 1857 Blacks and labor radicalism.

f. 1873 Listing of southern labor union locals and their conditions.

f. 1875 Union activities in southern lumber mills.

f. 1878 General assessment of lumber market and condition of Louisiana

Central.

f. 1883 First aid instruction in the Louisiana Central mill.

f. 1884-2051 1920-1922

f. 1894 Wage scale for mill, railroad, and timber workers.

f. 1906, 1907 Wage reductions in southern mills contemplated.

f. 1935 Pinkerton Agency report on the Socialist Party in the South.

f. 1941-1944 Louisiana Constitutional Convention.

f. 1952-1961 Company informer reports on worker's attitudes.

f. 1989 Proposal by Louisiana Lumber Company to introduce dairy farming on

cut-over lands in Louisiana.

f. 2015 National legislation concerning forestry.

f. 2044, 2046, 2051 Lobbying efforts for the lumber industry in Louisiana.


f. 2052-2162 1922-1923

f. 2105 Southern Lumber Operators' list of radical labor organizations and

political parties; list of acreage held by Louisiana Central and Forest

Oil and Gas Company.

f. 2136, 2140 Wage scale for mill workers.

f. 2138 Reports on activities of the IWW.

f. 2142, 2144 Assessment of economic conditions and timber stands in Mexico.

f. 2148 Trustee's report on the Clarks Colored School; report on IWW

activities in the northwest U.S.

f. 2162 Southern Lumber Operators' Association discussion concerning black

labor and the Negro Advocate.

f. 2163-2311 1923-1925

f. 2172, 2185 Discussion of Louisiana Central investing in timberlands in the

western U.S. and reports on tracts of timber in that region.

f. 2189 Report on the Youth Worker's League of the Communist Party of the

U.S.

f. 2208 List of stockholders in Louisiana Central.

f. 2227 Reports on lumber companies and timber tracts in the western U.S.

f. 2242 Fire destroys the sawmill at Oakdale

f. 2282 Table showing number of railroad cars of lumber shipped and distribu-

tion by states of Exchange Sawmill companies, 1903-1924.

f. 2311 Forest Lumber Company purchases the Modoc Pine Company of

Oregon.

f. 2312-2564 1926-1928

f. 2402 Copy of an official order for the Executive Committee of the Com-

munist International regarding the communist struggle and labor

unions in the U.S.

f. 2408 Report on labor union activities in Chicago and Philadelphia.

f. 2424 List of all Louisiana Central associate companies.

f. 2451 Plans to close down the Oakdale and Gulf Railway Company.

f. 2452, 2457 Flood conditions in the southern Mississippi valley.

f. 2459-2462 Sawmill at Clarks, destroyed by fire.

f. 2507 Increase of freight rates for shipping lumber to southern ports.

f. 2564 Louisiana Sawmill Company sells 39,000 acres in Rapides and Vernon

Parishes.

f. 2564-2788 1928-1933

f. 2566 Forest fire reports on fires in Caldwell Parish, lands of Louisiana

Central.

f. 2608 U.S. Forest Service plans to purchase 275,000 acres in Louisiana for a

national forest.

f. 2664 Reports on timber tracts in Escambia County, Alabama, which

Louisiana Central was considering purchasing.

f. 2669-2681 Sales reports on slumping business environment.

f. 2712 Discussion of oil and mineral rights on Louisiana Central lands.

f. 2758 Reports on possible oil bearing formations on Louisiana Central lands.


f. 2788 Values of timber lands set by the Louisiana Tax Commission.

f. 2789-2948 1933-1945

f. 2790 Table of total sales and freight charges, 1927-1932.

f. 2834 Taxes paid by Louisiana Central for 1934.

f. 2839 Louisiana Central interested in selling land to U.S. government for

Civilian Conservation Corps use.

f. 2843 Map of national forests and other lands proposed for federal purchase

in Louisiana.

f. 2872 Forest fires in Caldwell, Winn, and Jackson Parishes.

f. 2917, 2919 Major oil company interested in exploration of Louisiana Central cut-

over lands.

f. 2936 Oil drilling prospects in northern Louisiana.

f. 2942, 2944 Report by geologist on the possibilities of oil and gas production on

Forest Lumber Company lands.

Financial Records Series

f. 2949-3005 Annual Statements

f. 2949 LCLC, 1916

f. 2950 LCLC, 1917

f. 2951 LCLC, 1919

f. 2952 LCLC, 1920

f. 2953 LCLC, 1922

f. 2954 LCLC, 1923

f. 2955 LCLC, 1924

f. 2956 LCLC, 1926

f. 2957 LCLC, 1928

f. 2958 LCLC, 1929

f. 2959 LCLC, 1930

f. 2960 LCLC, 1931

f. 2961 LCLC, 1932

f. 2962 LCLC, 1933

f. 2963 LCLC, 1934

f. 2964 LCLC, 1935

f. 2965 LCLC, 1936

f. 2966 LCLC, 1937

f. 2967 LCLC, 1938

f. 2968 LCLC, 1939

f. 2969 LCLC, 1940

f. 2970 LCLC, 1941

f. 2971 LCLC, 1942

f. 2972 LCLC, 1943

f. 2973 LCLC, 1944

f. 2974 LCLC, 1945

f. 2975 LCLC, 1946


f. 2976 LCLC, 1947

f. 2977 LCLC, 1948

f. 2978 LCLC, 1949

f. 2979 LCLC, 1950

f. 2980 LCLC, 1951

f. 2981 LCLC, 1952

f. 2982 LCLC, 1953

f. 2983 Forest Lumber Company, 1924.

f. 2984 Louisiana Central Minerals Company, 1952.

f. 2985-2987 Louisiana Central Oil and Gas Company, 1940-1953

f. 2988-3000 Louisiana Sawmill Company, 1918-1933

f. 3001-3005 Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad Company, 1915-1945.

f. 3006-3027 Audit Reports, 1910-1945

f. 3028-3068 Journal Voucher Letters, 1914.

f. 3069-3139B Miscellaneous Records

f. 3069-3139 1904-1953, n.d.

f. 3139A-3139b Slagle Lumber Company, Lima, Ohio, financial records, 1927-1929.

(Note: C.E. Slagle was president of this company although it was not part

of the LCLC group.)

Reports Series

f. 3140-3183 Employee Records

f. 3140-3150 Wage schedules listing job title and weekly wages, 1915-1920, 1951.

f. 3151-3183 Reports of accidents to employees under the workmen's compensation

law; includes description of accident and injury, length of recovery, time

lost, and salary; 1915-1928.

f. 3184-3212 Plant Inspection Reports. Reports of the LCLC mills in Clarks and Standard;

plants inspected by insurance company for fire purposes, includes description

of plant, fire fighting equipment, fire hazards, and condition of machinery;

1903-1934.

f. 3213-3230 Appraisal Reports. Reports of mill and town property owned by LCLC in

Clarks; includes itemized lists of property and value of buildings, machinery,

and equipment, plat plans, and diagrams of mill and buildings.

f. 3213-3221 Appraisal Reports, 1921

f. 3222-3222g Fire Loss Report, 1927

f. 3223-3223g Appraisal Report, 1928

f. 3224-3230 Appraisal Reports, 1936-1951

f. 3231-3263 Inventories. Include description, quantity, and value of goods in the lumber,

supply, market, grocery, hardware, dry goods, drug store, garage, machine

shop, woods teams (horses and mules), carpenter, and feed departments of

LCLC in Clarks; 1922, 1938-1942

f. 3264-3275A Lumber Reports. Concerning lumber production and grades based upon

inspections conducted by professional lumber graders to maintain uniform

quality; 1908-1939, n.d.


f. 3276-3279 Oil and Gas Reports. Geophysical and drilling reports for southern Louisiana;

1935-1939.

f. 3280-3288 Salesmen's Reports. "Instructions to Salesmen" circulars sent by the Missouri

Lumber and Land Exchange Company and Exchange Sawmills Sales

Company, companies which sold lumber produced by the mills in Louisiana;

also lumber price lists and promotional literature.

f. 3280-3280b Missouri Lumber and Land Exchange Company, 1912, 1915-1920, 1923.

f. 3281-3288 Exchange Sawmills Sales Company, 1915-1916, 1921-1937.

f. 3289-3309 Forest Fire Reports. Include location, time, area burned, cause, and damage

resulting from fires, 1927-1939.

f. 3310-3411 Land Records. Include descriptions of land holdings, land and timber deeds,

maps, abstracts of titles, correspondence, field reports, and timber estimates.

f. 3310-3375a Louisiana Central Lumber Company, land records and maps, 1906-1939,

n.d.

f. 3376-3378 Abstract #557, tract #592, n.d.

f. 3379-3383 Abstract #558, tract #593, n.d.

f. 3384-3388 Abstract #561, n.d.

f. 3389-3396 Abstract #562, n.d.

f. 3397-3403 Forest Lumber Company, 1914-1939, n.d.

f. 3404-3409 Louisiana Sawmill Company, 1920-1939, n.d.

f. 3410 Louisiana Central Oil and Gas Company, 1932-1933

f. 3411 White-Grandin Lumber Company, 1927-1928, n.d.

f. 3412-3471 Insurance Policies. Policies for the Louisiana Central Lumber Company at

Clarks and Standard include automobile, equipment, machinery, kiln, barn,

plant, store, house and furniture, locomotive and railroad equipment, lumber,

workmen's compensation and employer's liability, and business interruption

insurance policies; 1924-1939, 1950, n.d.

Photographs and Maps Series

f. 3472 Photographs of tractors and locomotives; portable saw mill; R.B. White, n.d.;

delegates to the fourth district convention of the International Union of

Timber Workers in Meridian, Mississippi, 1919; Urania Petroleum Company,

Well No. 6, O. Robicaux Driller, 1925; men sitting on a porch, 1908.

f. 3473-3475 Photographs of lumber operations at the Oregon-American Lumber Company,

Vernonia, Oregon; included are photos of the cutting of trees, exterior views

of the mill buildings and ponds, and interior views of the saw mill and its

equipment being operated by employees.

f. 3476-3477 Exterior views of lumber camps and company housing in Oregon.

f. 3477a Maps of timber lands in Louisiana and Mississippi. Maps are oversized,

descriptions on separation sheet in folder.

Economic and Lumber Industry Series

f. 3478-3480 American Exchange National Bank of New York; newsletter reviewing U.S.


and international trade conditions, 1917-1926.

f. 3481-3510 Babson's Reports; reviews U.S. and world economic and trade conditions,

1913-1924.

f. 3511-3512 Basing Points; focuses on conditions of the U.S. lumber industry, 1923-1927.

f. 3513-3518 Brookmire's; newsletter outlining general economic conditions and commerce

in the U.S., 1917-1927.

f. 3519-3520 Brookmire's Yellow Pine Bulletin; reports on the production of yellow pine

and market conditions, 1920-1921.

f. 3521-3525 Business and Lumber Trade Conditions; concentrates on the U.S. lumber

industry, 1912-1917.

f. 3526 Fire Prevention; instructional pamphlets, and advertising material concerning

fire prevention in sawmills, c.1906-1927.

f. 3527-3528 The Forestry News Digest; newsletter published by The American Tree

Association, addresses issues and trends in forestry and the lumber industry,

1933, 1936-1939.

f. 3529 Guaranty Trust Company of New York; bulletins on international trade

conditions, 1919-1920.

f. 3530 Hardwood Manufacturer's Institute; production and order statistics of southern

U.S. hardwood mills, 1927.

f. 3531 Health and Safety; pamphlets and newsletters, many published by the U.S.

government, concerning the work environment in industry, 1911-1920.

f. 3532 Henry Clews and Company; bulletin concerning U.S. and international trade

conditions, 1920.

f. 3533-3535 Insurance; promotional material, reports, and financial statements of insurance

companies, 1913-1926.

f. 3536-3540 Labor; pamphlets, bulletins, reports, circulars and broadsides, and other

material pertaining to labor unions; includes minutes of the 1911, 1912, and

1919 conventions of the International Brotherhood of Timberworkers,

pamphlets published by the Industrial Workers of the World, anti-union

literature, and material concerning black workers, 1911-1924.

f. 3541 Louisiana Forestry Association; bulletins, minutes, and annual meeting

materials, 1919-1925.

f. 3542-3544 Louisiana; financial material including annual reports of Louisiana banks and

promotional literature for bond issues within the state, 1916-1927, 1932-1933.

f. 3545-3546 Louisiana; pamphlets, circulars, and promotional literature concerning

conservation in the state, legislative and political issues, and promotion of

Louisiana cities, 1910, 1921-1927, 1936-1937.

f. 3547-3551 Louisiana; state government reports and bulletins concerning natural

resources, public health, and other topics, 1910-1929, 1936.

f. 3552 Lumber Law Review; reports and comments on court decisions effecting the

lumber and wood products industries, 1913-1914.

f. 3553-3554 Lumbermen's Exchange-Alexandria, Louisiana District; the organization

promoted the southern lumber industry; includes minutes of meetings,

correspondence, bulletins, and financial statements of the organization, 1915-

1921.


f. 3555-3566 Lumbermen's Exchange; sales figures for lumber products of mills in the

Alexandria, Louisiana district, 1915.

f. 3567-3582 Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance; bulletins published by an organization

which provided insurance to lumber companies; concerns fire prevention in

sawmills, 1907-1927.

f. 3583-3589 Machinery and Equipment; advertising material for a wide variety of lumber

industry manufacturing equipment and supplies, c.1920.

f. 3590 Manufacturing Lumbermen's Underwriters; insurance agency; includes lists of

subscribers and annual financial statements, 1913-1925.

f. 3591-3592 Miscellaneous Banking and Investments; pamphlets and reports concerning

banks and bond issues, 1921, 1925-1927.

f. 3593-3597 Miscellaneous Business; bulletins, newsletters, and articles regarding national

and southern trade and commerce, 1913-1934.

f. 3598-3612 Miscellaneous Lumber; articles, periodicals, speeches, price lists, and

promotional materials related to the lumber industry, 1912-1935.

f. 3613-3614 National City Bank of New York; bulletin on economic conditions, govern-

mental finance, and U.S. securities, 1920-1921, 1927.

f. 3615-3635 National Lumber Manufacturers' Association; bulletins, national surveys,

production reports, issues of The National Lumberman, and minutes of

meetings, 1905-1928, 1933.

f. 3636-3637 National Lumber Manufacturer's Association Inter-Insurance Exchange;

bulletins include details of sawmill fires, fire prevention techniques, and lists

of subscribers, 1915-1927.

f. 3638 North Carolina Pine Association; reports of shipments and production,

1920,1927-1928.

f. 3639-3640 Oil and Gas; articles and prospectuses concerning oil drilling in Louisiana,

1919, 1938.

f. 3641-3650 Railroads; pamphlets, bulletins, articles, and reports of the U.S. Railroad

Labor Board, U.S. Railroad Administration and other government agencies,

Chamber of Commerce of the U.S., Railroad Commission of Louisiana, and

regional railroad associations, concerning federal railroad legislation and

operating regulations, and other issues affecting the industry, 1909-1924,

1932.

f. 3651-3655 Railroads; advertising material for railroad equipment, c.1920.

f. 3656-3657 Red Cross; bulletins, newsletters, and instructional materials regarding the

activities of the Gulf Division of the American Red Cross during World War I,

1918.

f. 3658 Southern Lumber Operators' Association; minutes of meetings, membership

lists and constitution, 1906, 1911, 1914, 1920-1923.

f. 3659-3773a Southern Pine Association; minutes of meetings, production figures and sales

reports of member companies, bulletins and newsletters, and promotional

literature, 1912-1936.

f 3774-3787 U.S. Government; primarily reports of the Forest Service, but also other

departments, pertaining to forestry and the southern U.S. lumber industry,

1908-1939.


f. 3788 West Coast Lumber Manufacturer's Association; based in Seattle, Washing-

ton, order and shipment statistics, 1916-1920, 1924, 1927-1929.

f. 3789 Western Pine Manufacturer's Association; based in Portland, Oregon, order

and shipment statistics, 1920, 1924, 1927-1929.

f. 3790-3809 Whaley-Eaton, newsletter concerning U.S. trade and economic conditions,

1920-1929.

f. 3810 World War I; pamphlets, bulletins, and memoranda pertaining to war

production, war bonds, and employment of veterans, 1916-1920.

f. 3811-3835 Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association; a southern U.S. regional organiza-

tion, includes proceedings of annual meetings, bulletins and newsletters, and

production and shipment statistics of member companies, 1906-1914.

f. 3836 YMCA and Charities; promotional and descriptive literature of charitable

organizations, 1918-1919, 1923-1927.

Volumes Series (MICROFILM)

v. 1-124 Letter press books containing copies of outgoing correspondence of LCLC,

1902-1915; C.E. Slagle, general manager of LCLC, 1902-1915; J.W.

Clarkson, land superintendent of LCLC, 1905-1915; and Ouachita and

Northwestern Railroad Company, 1905-1915.

v. 1-72 Letterbooks, LCLC General Correspondence

v. 1 1902 March 26-April 26

v. 2 1902 April 26-August 29

v. 3 1902 August 30-November 15

v. 4 1902 November 17-1903 March 5

v. 5 1903 March 5-June 9

v. 6 1903 June 3-September 30

v. 7 1903 September 30-1904 April 1

v. 8 1904 July 28-November 11

v. 9 1904 November 11-1905 April 3

v. 10 1905 April 3-July 14


v. 12 1905 November 4-1906 January 30

v. 13 1905 October 11-1906 February 3

v. 14 1906 January 31-April 17

v. 15 1906 April 18-July 17

v. 16 1906 July 18-October 12

v. 17 1906 October 13-1907 January 28


v. 19 1907 April 4-May 30

v. 20 1907 May 22-July 16

v. 21 1907 July 16-September 14

v. 22 1907 September 16-November 25

v. 23 1907 November 26-1908 February 22

v. 24 1908 February 22-June 8


v. 25 1908 June 8-August 6

v. 26 1908 August 6-September 30


v. 28 1908 November 2-December 15

v. 29 1908 December 15-1909 February 16

v. 30 1909 April 6-May 27

v. 31 1909 May 28-July 5

v. 32 1909 July 5-August 10





v. 37 1910 February 12-April 12

v. 38 1910 April 12-May 5


v. 40 1910 September 6-October 17

v. 41 1910 October 17-November 21


v. 43 1911 January 11-February 25


v. 45 1911 April 13-May 25

v. 46 1911 May 26-July 19


v. 48 1911 September 4-October 19

v. 49 1911 October 19-November 28

v. 50 1911 November 28-1912 February 21

v. 51 1912 January 16-February 27


v. 53 1912 April 8-May 24

v. 54 1912 May 26-July 8






v. 60 1913 March 28-May 10

v. 61 1913 May 10-July 11




v. 65 1914 January 8-March 14

v. 66 1914 March 14-May 20

v. 67 1914 May 20-August 4

v. 68 1914 August 5-October 21




v. 71 1915 April 22-July 19


v. 73-113 Letterbooks, C.E. Slagle Correspondence

v. 73 1902 May 2-August 28

v. 74 1902 August 30-November 27

v. 75 1902 December 9-1903 March 13

v. 76 1903 March 13-May 18

v. 77 1903 May 18-August 17

v. 78 1903 August 18-December 4

v. 79 1903 December 4-1904 April 20

v. 80 1904 April 20-October 17

v. 81 1904 October 17-1905 March 4

v. 82 1905 March 4-July 8




v. 86 1906 April 10-July 28

v. 87 1906 July 28-October 29



v. 90 1907 April 6-May 21

v. 91 1907 May 22-July 9



v. 94 1907 October 12-December 27

v. 95 1907 December 27-1908 March 30

v. 96 1908 March 30-August 20


v. 98 1909 February 22-June 5

v. 99 1909 June 6-September 21

v. 100 1909 September 22-December 15

v. 101 1909 December 15-1910 March 21

v. 102 1910 March 26-May 22

v. 103 1910 May 23-September 17

v. 104 1910 September 19-1911 January 13

v. 105 1911 January 11-May 8

v. 106 1911 May 8-September 11

v. 107 1911 September 11-1912 February 11

v. 108 1912 February 14-July 11

v. 109 1912 July 29-December 13

v. 110 1912 December 13-1913 July 17

v. 111 1913 July 16-1914 March 21

v. 112 1914 March 21-November 5

v. 113 1914 November 6-1915April 1


v. 114-116 Letterbooks, J.W. Clarkson Correspondence

v. 114 1905 October 10-1911 December 14

v. 115 1911 December 22-1914 March 18

v. 116 1914 March 24-1915 September 20

v. 117-124 Letterbooks, Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad Company

v. 117 1905 August 21-1909 September 25

v. 118 1909 September 24-1910 October 16

v. 119 1910 October 14-1911 September 7

v. 120 1911 September 7-1912 June 28

v. 121 1912 June 29-1913 December 13

v. 122 1913 December 19-1915 September 14

v. 123 1912 January 3-1914 August 5

v. 124 1914 August 26-1916 April 1

v. 125 Newspapers, 1913-1914. Labor Union newspapers; The Lumberjack, renamed

The Voice Of The People, was published by the National Industrial Union of

Forest and Lumber Workers.

The Lumber Jack, January-July 1913

The Voice of the People, July 1913-April 1914

The Industrial Worker, July 1923

The Marine Worker, February 1924

National Negro Voice, 1924

v. 126-133 General Journals. The principal accounting record of original entry listing in

chronological order all financial transactions. The General Journals include the

date, description of the transaction, reference to the General Ledger page (folio)

number, and amount debited and credited; 1902-1928.

v. 126 1902 February-April

v. 127 1910 April 1902-1904 September

v. 128 1904 October 1904-1906 December

v. 129 1908 September 1908-1911 December

v. 130 1917 May 1917-1919 May

v. 131 1919 June 1919-1921 December

v. 132 1925 March 1925-1927 December

v. 133 1928 January-June

v. 134-141 Cash Journals. The record of original entry for transactions involving cash

received or cash disbursed. The Cash Journal records in chronological order the

date, description of transaction with separate sheets for debits and credits, and

folio number; 1913-1916, 1926-1956.

v. 134 1913 September-1916 December

v. 135 1926 July-1929 December

v. 136 1930 January-1934 January

v. 137 1934 January-1937 December



v. 140 1946 January-1950 April

v. 141 1950 May-1956 March


v. 142-175 Voucher Records. Often called a register, records vouchers which disburse funds

in response to invoices received from creditors. The Voucher Records list in

chronological order the voucher number, amount of check, bank, purpose of

transaction, and account involved. The vouchers are cross-referenced by folio

number to the account in the General Ledger; 1904-1953.

v. 142 1904 January-1906 May

v. 143 1906 June-1907 December

v. 144 1908

v. 145 1910

v. 146 1911

v. 147 1912

v. 148 1912-1913

v. 149 1914

v. 150 1915 January-1916 January

v. 151 1916

v. 152 1916 December-1917 November

v. 153 1917 December-1919 March

v. 154 1919 March-1920 April

v. 155 1920 April-1921 May

v. 156 1921 June-1922 July

v. 157 1922 August-1923 August

v. 158 1923 September-1924 August

v. 159 1924 September-1925 September

v. 160 1926 November-1927 December

v. 161 1928

v. 162 1929

v. 163 1930-1931 May

v. 164 1933-1934 September

v. 165 1934 October-1936 June

v. 166 1936 July-1937 December

v. 167 1938-1939 September

v. 168 1939 October-1941 April

v. 169 1941 May-1942 December

v. 170 1942 December-1944 September

v. 171 1944 October-1946 June

v. 172 1946 July-1947 October

v. 173 1947 October-1948 December

v. 174 1949-1950 November

v. 175 1950 December-1953April

v. 176-181 Purchase Journals. Record merchandise purchased on account. Listed in

alphabetical order by the name of the account or company, the Purchase Journals

include invoice number and date, transaction description, amount of invoice and

deductions, and date and number of voucher paid.

v. 176 1925

v. 177 1927


v. 178 1940

v. 179 1950

v. 180 1951

v. 181 1952

v. 182-187 Customer's Journals. Document the financial transactions with customers of the

lumber company. Record chronologically the amount received for credit, date,

account number, car number, lumber discount, freight, and claims allowed; 1935-

1953.

v. 182 1935 March-1937

v. 183 1938 January-1940 November

v. 184 1940 December-1944

v. 185 1944 May-1948 August

v. 186 1948 September-1952 November

v. 187 1952 December-1953 December

v. 188-243 General Ledgers. The principal record of final entry of all transactions which

classify by account those records from the other journals which were listed

chronologically. The General Ledger lists by account, company, or personal name

the date, amount, and reference number to the General Journal and/or Voucher

Record; 1902-1953.

v. 188 1902

v. 188a 1902-1903

v. 189 1903

v. 190 1904

v. 191 1905 index

v. 192 1905

v. 193 1906 index

v. 194 1906

v. 195 1907 index

v. 196 1907

v. 197 1908 index

v. 198 1908

v. 199 1909

v. 200 1910

v. 201 1911

v. 202 1912

v. 203 1913

v. 204 1914

v. 205 1915

v. 206 1916

v. 207 1917

v. 208 1918

v. 209 1919

v. 210 1920

v. 211 1921

v. 212 1922


v. 213 1923

v. 214 1924

v. 215 1925

v. 216 1926

v. 217 1927

v. 218 1928

v. 219 1929

v. 220 1930

v. 221 1931

v. 222 1932

v. 223 1933

v. 224 1934

v. 225 1935

v. 226 1936

v. 227 1937

v. 228 1938

v. 229 1939

v. 230 1940

v. 231 1941

v. 232 1942

v. 233 1943

v. 234 1944

v. 235 1945

v. 236 1946

v. 237 1947

v. 238 1948

v. 239 1949

v. 240 1950

v. 241 1951

v. 242 1952

v. 243 1953

v. 244-245 Petty Journal. Records the expenses of the company stores, hotels, supplies,

machine shops, coupons, etc., 1909-1913. This journal was discontinued in 1914.

v. 244 1909-1912

v. 245 1913-1914

v. 246-253 Assorted Journals and Ledgers.

v. 246 Account Journal, LCLC, Standard; lists the debits and credits by name of

employee or local account such as lodges, garages, churches, library, etc.,

1920-1934.

v. 247 Cash Journal, LCLC, Standard; lists debits and credits by date, includes

transaction description, amount, account, sundry, store sales, and lumber sales,

1927, 1933.

v. 248 Account Journal, LCLC, Clarks; organized chronologically, lists the credits

and disbursements of accounts such as names, church, lodge, payroll, etc.,

1927-1953.


v. 249 Ledger; lists by date and name items such as payroll distribution, general

accounts, and expenses, 1950-1951.

v. 250 Ledger; lists by date and name items such as payroll distribution, general

accounts, and expenses, 1952-1953.

v. 251 Ledger; lists date and amount by account, 1922-1923.

v. 252 Lumber Ledger; lists by account, includes date, logs, feet, price, rebate, and

stumpage, 1925-1928.

v. 253 Cash Book; lists chronologically transactions and amount, 1930-1944.

v. 254-258 Railroad Accounts

v. 254 Cash Book; lists date, account, amount of accounts mainly with railroad

companies concerning freight and train expenses, 1916-1927.

v. 255 Voucher Records, Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad; lists date, voucher

number, check number, amount, payee, description, account, credits and

debits, 1909-1920.

v. 256 Accounts for customers, Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad; 1914.

v. 257 Journal, Ouachita and Northwestern Railroad; lists year, freight bill, point of

origin, destination, consignee, commodity, miles, weight, and charges, 1917-

1923.

v. 258 Account Journal; lists railway operating expenses, freight revenue, locomotive

repair, maintenance of track and equipment, etc, 1941-1948.

v. 259-263 Land and Lumber Journals

v. 259 Land Records, LCLC; lists by location, parish, township, and range; includes

description of land, kind of deed, grantor, date, estimate pine, and estimator,

1902-1903.

v. 260 Lumber Claim Records, LCLC; lists customer, mill, feet, date shipped, nature

of claim, amount allowed at Clarks or Standard, date allowed, 1926-1940.

v. 261 Timber Estimates, made for Tremont Lumber Co. and LCLC; 1911.

v. 262 Timber Estimates, made for the W.R. Pickering Lumber Co., 1918.

v. 263 Timber Estimates, made for the Gulf Lumber Co., 1918.

v. 264 Smalley Tie and Timber Co. Voucher and purchase records, lists date, from

whom purchased, check number, and amount, 1916-1927.

v. 265-267 Louisiana Sawmill Co., Glenmora. Voucher record; lists date, voucher drawn in

favor of, credit (bank), amount, sundries, and debit accounts, 1925-1929.

v. 265 1925-1927

v. 266 1927-1928

v. 267 1928-1929

v. 268 Letter Register; lists number, date, name, place, subject, and disposition of

correspondence, 1908.

INDEX TERMS

Subject Folders Volumes Image

Advertising--Lumber and lumbering 3659-3773a Advertising--Machinery 3583-3589 Age and employment 91



Alcoholics 415,442,469-471,532,566,572,701 Alcoholics--Rehabilitation 323,328,330,331,335,521,701 American Federation of Labor 148,1857 American Forestry Association 445,1775 American Red Cross 1493,1530,1609,1678,3656,3657 Automobiles--Maintenance and repairs 1272,1274,1275,1352,1429,1541-1543 Automobiles--Service stations 1637 y

Black laborers 22,23,33,79,98,122,128,152,249,250,251,377,432,433,463,548,593,638,660,661,670,755, 823,824,831,832,1488,1732,1735,1737,1772, 1857,2136,2138,2148,2150,2162,2164,2166, 2185,2208,2382,3537,3538

Blacks--Cartoons and caricatures 497,694 y

Blacks--Fraternal organizations 660,661,664,671,686,848,1084,1089,1091, 1112

Bookkeeping 467,468,565-568,579,592,728 Brotherhood of Timber Workers 655,664,666,668,669,676,677,682-684,688,

689,693,695-697,699,702,704,707,711,718, 719,721,722,726,749,755,759,768,774,786, 787,791,792,794,797,798,800,803,806-821, 824,830,833,834,838,3536,3537,3538

Children--Employment 463,469,732,136,1443,1555,1556 Children--Labor and laboring classes 463,469,732,1686,2148 Communism--United States 2201,2210,2333,2341,2347,2402,2425,2583 Crime 851-853,854,1247,1273,1282,1775 Criminal investigation 852,853,854,856,861,863-866,871,876,877,

878

Debs, Eugene V. (1855-1926) 2331 Detectives 497,498,538,669-675,695,702-704,720,736,

814,852-854,856,861,863,866,868,871,876-878,1461,1464,1540,1546,1778,1789,1825, 1826

Discrimination in employment 22,23,33,79,98,109,128 Discrimination in public accommodations 543,1599,1605 Drug abuse 539, 566 Drug and alcohol abuse--Treatment 323, 328, 330, 331, 335, 415, 442, 521 Elderly--Housing 602, 603 Elderly--Louisiana, Clarks 602-603 Emerson, Arthur Lee 655, 660, 664, 666, 676, 677, 683, 689, 695,

698, 699, 704, 709, 718, 731, 773-775

English language--Jargon 53, 284, 316, 317, 461, 506 Exchange Sawmills Sales Company, Kansas City, Missouri

1-3836

Family life--Louisiana, Clarks 264, 336, 340, 415, 442, 469, 527, 535, 549, 602, 603, 1043-1046, 1048, 1052, 1061, 1415-1416, 1424-1425

Forest fires--Louisiana 110, 111, 1044, 2872, 3289-3309



Forest Lumber Company, Kansas City, Missouri

1-880

Forest Lumber Company, Oakdale, Louisiana 874-3836 Forests and forestry 428, 553, 3527, 3528, 3541, 3505-3507, 3775-

3786

Fraternal Organizations 107, 110, 1071 Fraternal Organizations--Louisiana, Clarks 504, 1052, 1667, 1699, 1701 v. 246-248 Gambling 240, 1526 Grandin, George Wilbert 119-3836 Gypsies 503 Hall, Covington 755, 768, 774 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 383, 386, 399, 403, 405, 435, 487, 557 Hardwood Manufacturers Institute 3530 Haywood, William D. 755, 756, 774 Hookworm disease 638 Hours of labor 139, 178, 179, 237, 244, 266, 268, 382, 461,

593, 594, 719, 1027, 1577, 1757

Household appliances, Electric 433 y

Hunting--Louisiana, 1900s 55 Industrial health and safety 66, 101, 107, 108, 110, 111, 140, 156, 159-

162, 166, 171, 1499, 3184-3212

Industrial management 1572 Industrial Workers of the World 672, 696, 762, 768, 769, 791, 814, 912, 964,

1103, 1107, 1508, 1522, 1524, 1527, 1536, 1537, 1539, 1546, 1593, 1624, 1629, 1951, 1989, 2014, 2127, 2129, 2138, 2148, 2154, 2164, 2193, 2201, 2208, 2210, 2253, 2259, 2264, 2268, 2272, 2274, 2282, 2331, 2341, 2382, 2425, 3558, 3539

Influenza 1636, 1637, 1778, 1780 Insurance policies 3412-3471 International Union of Timber Workers 1634, 1645, 1735, 1737, 1740, 1762, 1819,

1826, 1943, 1946, 2063, 2129, 2134

International Union of Trade Workers 1735, 3472 y

Jesse, Richard Henry (1853-1921) 104 Labor and laboring classes 395, 3472-3475 y

Labor and laboring classes--Accidents 66, 101, 107, 108, 111, 140, 156, 159-162, 166, 171, 181-183, 193, 194, 200, 201, 217, 335, 342, 349, 356, 381, 403, 405, 406, 415, 429, 437, 494, 519, 565, 573, 597, 629, 671, 694, 782, 827-832, 487, 849, 862, 894, 898, 899, 964, 978, 1008, 1015, 1018, 1021, 1083, 1088, 1090, 1110, 1115, 1117, 1269, 1271, 1300, 1336, 1376, 1392, 3151-3183, 3531

Labor and laboring classes--Alcohol use 323, 328, 330, 331, 335, 415, 442, 469, 470, 507, 652, 761

Labor and laboring classes--Housing 250, 251, 271, 433, 434, 437, 438



Labor and laboring classes--Immigrants 343, 370, 1486 Labor and laboring classes--Italian Americans 79, 97, 98, 167, 340, 448, 503 Labor and laboring classes--Jargon 284, 461 Labor and laboring classes--Medical care 66, 140, 181, 182, 472, 514, 561, 564, 565,

620, 623, 647, 727-729, 740, 745, 822, 3531

Labor and laboring classes--Mexican Americans

40, 79, 85

Labor unions 85, 89, 107, 120, 148, 173, 178, 251, 266, 269, 273, 279, 385, 645, 651, 655-726, 729-736, 744, 755-762, 765-770, 773-778, 785, 788, 790, 794, 797, 803-824, 827, 828, 830, 832-834, 837, 838, 840, 842, 844, 845, 854, 861-863, 869, 878, 895, 901, 903, 908, 910, 912, 915, 927, 928, 935, 937, 938, 940, 942, 943, 945, 946, 952, 957, 964, 969, 1000, 1001, 1003, 1005-1007, 1009, 1019, 1032, 1033, 1038, 1047, 1048, 1055, 1064, 1095, 1103, 1124, 1131, 1191, 1236, 1286, 1389, 1479, 1495, 1508, 1522, 1528, 1530, 1539, 1540, 1549, 1554, 1564, 1567, 1580, 1581, 1591, 1606, 1611, 1634, 1645, 1686, 1687, 1726, 1732, 1733, 1735, 1737, 1740, 1741, 3536-3540

Land records--Louisiana 3310-3411 v. 259 League of Nations 1728 Leisure--Louisiana, Clarks 247, 432, 539-543, 546, 593, 652, 653, 670-

675, 724-725, 772-774

Letterhead, Stationery 1 y

Locomotives 80, 272, 714, 718, 733, 744 Locomotives 50, 53, 54, 80, 272, 431, 495, 789, 3472 y

Long, Huey P. (1893-1935) 1422, 2249 Louisiana Central Lumber Company, Clarks, Louisiana

1-3836 v. 1-268

Louisiana Central Lumber Company, Clarks, Louisiana

3478 y

Louisiana Central Lumber Company, Clarks, Louisiana--Housing

3476-3477 y

Louisiana Central Lumber Company, Standard, Louisiana

265-3836

Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company, Fisher, Louisiana

2-3836

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1903-1904 53, 62 Louisiana Sawmill Company, Glenmora, Louisiana

1593-3836

Louisiana, Clarks--Barber shop 1295, 1296, 1302, 1524 Louisiana, Clarks--Boarding houses 725, 830, 837, 1245, 1433 Louisiana, Clarks--Churches 177-179, 190, 206, 207, 209, 211, 213, 216,

217, 222, 234, 244, 265, 282, 316, 363, 399, 411, 415, 420, 458, 504, 508, 517, 527, 535,

v. 248



666, 795, 820, 827, 1036, 1037, 1044, 1183, 1435, 1466, 1533, 1653

Louisiana, Clarks--Fires and fire prevention 236-237, 244, 380, 408-427, 769, 940, 2459, 3478, 3580

Louisiana, Clarks--Hotels, motels, etc. 369, 487, 560, 568, 643, 678, 751, 797, 832, 841, 846, 847, 948, 1320

v. 244-248

Louisiana, Clarks--Housing 10, 222-224, 250, 251, 310, 328, 437, 438, 466, 485, 517, 538, 566, 613, 626, 638, 816, 821, 835, 838, 911, 1018, 1029, 1033, 1034, 1038, 1068, 1083-1085, 1092, 1094, 1104, 1158, 1163, 1240, 1306, 1352, 1358, 1365, 1380-1381, 1384, 1394, 1416, 1422, 1483, 1486, 1491, 1492, 1508, 1509, 1668

Louisiana, Clarks--Leisure 247, 432, 539-543, 546, 593, 652, 653, 670-675, 724-725, 772-774

Louisiana, Clarks--Libraries 1100, 1101, 1137 Louisiana, Clarks--Maps--1912 761 Louisiana, Clarks--Medical Care 1052, 1097, 1119, 1182, 1189, 1201, 1204,

1317-1319, 1425, 1444, 1497, 1576

Louisiana, Clarks--Public health 638, 712, 735, 741, 845, 848-850, 874, 882-883, 885, 886, 892, 893, 895, 897, 909, 910, 924, 948, 964, 982, 1027, 1037, 1081, 1183, 1186, 1228, 1241, 1283, 1294, 1368, 1388, 1404, 1405, 1422, 1472, 1505, 1624, 1822

Louisiana, Clarks--Schools 47, 106, 130, 136, 138, 140, 141, 165, 166, 170, 196, 197, 200, 202, 203, 205-207, 219, 231, 428, 444, 499, 541, 544, 546, 550, 578, 655, 712, 713, 858, 988, 1019, 1086, 1097, 1098, 1104, 1105, 1114, 1115, 1124, 1126, 1131, 1175, 1206, 1210, 1217, 1282, 1293, 1318, 1384, 1401, 1403, 1406, 1408, 1409, 1421, 1423, 1436-1438, 1453, 1456, 1517, 1524, 1557, 1640, 1667, 2148

Louisiana, Clarks--Segregation 1486 Louisiana, Clarks--Social life and customs 512, 539, 1131, 1142, 1144, 1162, 1163, 1185,

1188, 1348, 1354, 1355, 1362, 1370, 1375-1376, 1410, 1460

Louisiana, Clarks--Stores 3, 9, 76, 80, 326, 329, 330, 344, 350-353, 382, 398, 484, 515, 534, 639, 647, 651, 653, 675, 676, 734, 740, 947, 956, 966, 1068, 1247, 1269, 1280, 1281, 1360, 1366, 1391, 1499, 1512, 3231-3263

v. 244-248

Louisiana, Glenmora 1623, 1827 Louisiana, Glenmora--Fires 1756-1760, 1785, 2359 Louisiana, Oakdale--Churches 926, 1042, 1043, 1078, 1193, 1551 Louisiana, Oakdale--Fires and fire prevention 2242 Louisiana, Oakdale--Hotels, motels, etc. 961, 973 Louisiana, Oakdale--Housing 920, 994, 1013 Louisiana, Oakdale--Medical care 919, 997, 1002, 1003



Louisiana, Oakdale--Stores 934, 941, 947, 975, 1165, 1211, 1425-1426 Louisiana, Standard--Boarding houses 834, 835, 837, 1148-1150 Louisiana, Standard--Churches 391, 396, 420, 421, 449, 464, 516, 522, 555,

679, 686, 733, 752, 793, 796, 802, 890, 988, 995, 1002, 1059, 1146, 1435, 1437, 1581

Louisiana, Standard--Fires 1103, 1132-1135 Louisiana, Standard--Hospitals 712 Louisiana, Standard--Hotels, motels, etc. 483, 581, 834 Louisiana, Standard--Housing 293, 295, 310, 580, 1083, 1086 Louisiana, Standard--Public health 751, 939, 948, 1067, 1080, 1141, 1150 Louisiana, Standard--Schools 351, 352, 354, 563, 828, 858, 1436 Louisiana, Standard--Stores 398, 455, 467, 493, 647, 651, 744, 1165, 1254 Louisiana--Race relations 1244 Lumber and lumbering 86, 617, 950, 977, 1331, 3472-3477 y

Lumber and lumbering--Accounting 2949-3139 v. 12-6, 267 Lumber and lumbering--Insurance 3412-3471, 3533-3535, 3567-3582, 3590,

3636, 3637

Lumber and lumbering--Jargon 284, 315, 461, 506, 874 Lumber and lumbering--Law and legislation 3552 Lumber and lumbering--Louisiana 1-3836 v. 1-268 Lumber and lumbering--Machinery 22, 206, 227, 265, 281, 284, 286, 290, 292,

321, 363, 395, 437, 455, 536, 653, 654, 658, 892, 1326, 1491, 3184-3230, 3583-3589

Lumber and lumbering--Machinery 205, 206, 217, 284, 327, 395, 506, 536, 577, 654, 660, 662, 665, 827, 874, 892, 893, 1022, 1101, 1254, 1262, 1326, 1491, 1546, 1594, 3472-3475

y

Lumber and lumbering--Marketing 3511, 3512, 3519-3525, 3530, 3553-3566, 3598-3612, 3615-3635, 3638, 3658-3773, 3788, 3789, 3811-3835

Lumber and lumbering--Mexico 328, 2142, 2144 Lumber and lumbering--Oregon 3473-3477 y

Lumber and lumbering--Periodicals 68, 76-81, 91, 122, 128, 129, 249, 253, 358, 378, 396, 404, 409, 423, 483, 498, 507, 539, 577, 613, 624, 665, 726, 775, 932, 3478, 3527, 3528, 3552, 3615-3635, 3598, 3599, 3602, 3609

Lumber and lumbering--Railroads 1-3835 v. 254-257 Lumber and lumbering--Tariffs 487, 498 Lumberjack, National Industrial Union of Forest and Lumber Workers

v. 125

Lumbermen's Exchange 3553-3566 Machinery 296, 356, 431, 510, 576, 645, 3472-3475 y

Malaria 1305 Marine Worker, The v. 125 Mexican American laborers 40



Migration, Internal 1512, 1530, 1704, 1705, 1708 Missouri Mining and Lumber Company, Grandin, Missouri

1-3836

Missouri Pacific Railway Company 1-3836 Missouri Tie and Timber Company, Grandin, Missouri

11-14, 34-36, 57, 159, 168, 174

Motion pictures, 1900s 540, 451 Motion pictures, 1910s 772-774 Mules 109, 1662 Narcotic addicts, Rehabilitation 323, 328, 330, 331, 335 National Association of Manufacturers 139, 385, 404, 451, 580 National Industrial Union of Forest and Lumber Workers

830, 833, 838 v. 125

National Lumber Manufacturers Association 782, 1085, 3615-3635 National Negro Voice v. 125 Negro Advocate 2162, 2164 North Western Mill Men's Skilled Labor Association

157, 159

O'Hare, Kate Richards (1877-1948) 2154 Orphanages 691, 1775 Ozark Land and Lumber Company, Winona, Missouri

90, 136, 219, 233, 320, 526, 699, 726, 728, 731, 736, 740, 743, 772

Panama International Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1917

584, 618, 619

Petroleum, Louisiana 480, 490, 1742-1745, 1751, 2512, 3276, 3639, 3640

Pinkerton's National Detective Agency 670, 672-675, 695, 774, 1537, 1825, 1826 Postal service, Louisiana, Clarks 953 Privies 638, 1186, 1414, 1422, 1425 Privies 638 y

Profit sharing 168 Prohibition 1064 Prostitution 1460 Quachita and Northwestern Railroad Company 16-3836 Race discrimination 22, 23, 33, 79, 98, 109, 128 Race relations 1244 Railroads, Cars 651-1060 Railroads, Cars 651, 1060, 1135, 1143, 1820 y

Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery 734, 736-738, 739, 801, 816 y

Republican Party, Louisiana, 1900s 124, 131, 450 Safes 320 y

San Francisco, CA, Earthquake and Fire, 1906 243, 245, 250, 328 Sawmills, Fire and fire prevention 3567-3582, 3636, 3637 Segregation 1486, 1734 Sheppard, Charles Clinton 1-3836



Slagle Naval Stores, 1919-1920 3090, 3096 Slagle, Clarence E. 1-2536 Smalley Tie and Timber Company, Louisiana 264 Smallpox 34 Socialism 856 Southern Lumber Manufacturers' Association 3, 9, 10, 17, 36, 38, 49, 53, 54, 56, 57, 61, 62,

67, 70, 71, 77, 79, 81, 83, 86, 88, 90, 91, 93, 94, 96, 105, 106, 107, 111, 114, 135, 136, 138, 139, 140, 142, 143, 146, 147, 152, 167, 169, 170, 173, 184, 187, 192

Southern Lumber Operators' Association 266-269, 273, 277, 279, 297, 302, 639, 651, 655-659, 662, 666, 669, 671, 676, 678, 680, 682, 684-722, 724, 725, 726, 729, 731, 732, 734, 735, 736, 739, 741, 742, 743, 744,745, 749, 750, 753, 755-770, 773, 775-778, 780, 783, 784, 785, 787, 788, 789, 790, 793, 794, 800, 803, 805, 808-823, 824, 827, 830, 832, 833, 834, 837, 840, 841, 842, 845, 846, 847, 933, 940, 971, 984, 1000, 1005, 1006, 1100, 1117, 1124, 1162, 1781, 1805, 1959, 1989, 2105, 2121, 2123, 2138, 2162, 2166, 2235, 2364, 2390, 2445, 3658

Southern Pine Association 1186, 1193, 1195, 1198, 1222, 1774, 1812, 1847, 2008, 3659-3773

St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad and Southern Railway

69, 89, 97, 114, 118, 129, 143, 151, 157, 188, 203, 211, 220, 223, 227, 231, 232, 235, 270, 292, 295, 302, 310, 332, 335, 336, 337, 349, 367, 369, 372, 374, 379, 401, 507, 532, 537, 543, 587, 624

Standard Lumber Company, Standard LA 97, 130, 135, 204, 246, 250-252, 262, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 279, 280, 295, 298, 299, 302, 303, 305, 306, 665, 845

Strikes and lockouts 12, 85, 86, 266, 267, 273, 277, 676, 682, 683, 684, 686, 692, 720, 2150, 2222, 2253

Telephone 102, 283, 537, 543, 570, 744, 1255 The American Tree Association 3527, 3528 The Industrial Worker v. 125 Trusts, Industrial 314, 405, 411, 425, 431, 432, 778, 1006, 1105,

1109, 1145

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service 314, 2608, 3775-3786 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory

584, 591, 593

U.S. Economic conditions 3478-3510, 3513-3518, 3529, 3532, 3613, 3614, 3790-3809

U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission 1187, 1248, 1374, 1402 Victoria, Fisher and Western Railroad Company, Fisher, Louisiana

189, 195, 196, 198, 207, 222, 230, 232, 265, 269, 309, 616, 649

Voice of the People v. 125 Wages--Lumber and lumbering 114, 115, 137, 155, 225, 348, 353, 379, 382,



393, 461, 483, 488, 511, 614, 620, 653, 729, 742, 787, 805, 806, 816-818, 820, 823, 838, 839, 841, 1004, 1023, 1104, 1116, 1142, 1157, 1179, 1228, 1362, 1372, 1413-1414, 1456, 1472, 1476, 1480, 1499, 1513-1515, 1534, 1559, 1561, 1566, 1577, 1582, 1594, 1595, 1629, 1714, 2136, 2185, 2187, 2214, 2270, 2272, 3140-3150

White, John Barber 1-2192 White, Raymond B. 1-3836 White, Raymond B. 3472, 3478 y

White-Grandin Lumber Company, Slagle, Louisiana

1653-3836

William J. Burns National Detective Agency 720, 759 Women--Employment 185, 469, 544, 691, 694, 1292, 1429-1431,

1433, 1456

Workers’ compensation 83, 101, 107, 108, 110, 156, 159, 161, 162, 166, 167, 171, 172, 181-183, 193, 194, 196, 200, 201, 204, 213, 214, 217, 219, 239-241, 270, 279, 316, 322, 327, 335, 494, 725, 803, 825, 830, 840,845, 847, 849, 857, 894, 895, 911, 933, 941, 978, 979, 981, 1001, 1007, 1010, 1015, 1017, 1020-1023, 1027, 1031, 1051, 1054, 1100, 1102, 1138, 1180, 1189, 1213, 1229, 1233, 1265, 1271, 1277, 1279, 1292, 1316, 1351, 1352, 1354, 1361-1364, 1391, 1396, 1397, 1403, 1404, 1512, 1558, 1576, 1577, 1579, 1590, 1591, 1659-1662, 1704, 1707-1709, 1712, 3151-3183

Workers' compensation, Law and legislation 1065, 1082-1084, 1091, 1165, 1167, 1172, 1173, 1204, 1436, 1848, 1852, 1862

World War, 1914-1918 1505, 1526, 1527, 3656, 3657, 3810 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, Forest School

226, 234, 314, 532, 551, 554, 557, 558, 561-564, 567, 572, 575, 588, 597, 622, 624, 627, 628, 1495

Yellow fever 200, 201, 204, 206, 208, 212, 213 Yellow Pine Manufacturers Association 231-234, 296, 333, 405, 425, 426, 509, 520,

521, 531, 595, 596, 647, 657, 668, 682, 685, 717, 731, 746, 657, 668, 682, 685, 717, 731, 746, 762, 792, 804, 824, 841, 856, 998, 1096, 1145, 1156, 1164, 1174, 3811-3835

Young Men's Christian Association 136, 816, 819, 865, 942, 1123, 1257, 1325, 1452, 1818, 1847, 1852, 1325, 1452, 1818, 1847, 1852, 1961, 3836

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