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The Kirby Lumber Corporation was organized in 1901. Its founder, John Henry Kirby, was already a well-known lumberman and timber buyer with large interests in Southeast Texas and the growing city of Houston. At its peak, the Kirby Lumber Corporation operated some seventeen sawmills and a similar number of logging camps, cutting the timber from more than 900,000 acres of virgin pineland. The Kirby company was easily the largest in the entire south. With palatial headquarters in Houston, Kirby presided over a vast empire. He was an important political figure and held offices in both Texas and the federal governments. He was also a leader in organizing the southern Pine Association and frequently spoke for the industry on national questions. During the Great Depression the company fell into financial difficulty and its control passed into the hands of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company which continues to own and operate it. John Henry Kirby continued as president of the enterprise until his death in 1940. The inactive papers of the Kirby Lumber Corporation were deposited in the Forest History Archives in the Stephen F. Austin State University Library in 1971 through the courtesy of Thomas Orth and J. B. Webster. It is a large comprehensive collection dealing with all phases of the company's activities, numbering some 466 boxes, 1 bundle, and 179 ledgers.
[Forest History--Kirby Lumber Company]
Box 1: 1886-1899
Corres. with U.S. Circuit Court, Eastern District of Texas
Corres. With First National Bank of Beaumont
Corres. With land agents
Corres. With The Texas Pine Land Association
Corres. With law offices
Corres. With lumber companies
Corres. With Treasury Department, Office of the Comptroller of Currency
Corres. With real estate brokers
Corres. With House of Representatives, 26th Legislature
General correspondence
Box 2: 1887-1899
Corres. With law offices
Corres. With A. B. Doucette, County Surveyor of Hardin County
Corres. With city officials of Beaumont, Texas
Corres. With brokers and real estate agents
Corres. With US Circuit Court, Eastern District of Texas
Corres. With the Planters & Mechanics National Bank
Corres. With Waco & Sabine Pass Railway Company Corres. With W. T.
Durbin, Republican National Committee
Corres. With Department of Agriculture, Insurance, Statistics, & History.
Geological Survey of Texas
General correspondence
Box 3: 1896, 1901-1904, 1908
Corres. With lawyers
Corres. With Bonner Brothers & Company, Dealers in General Merchandise
Corres. With lumber companies
Corres. With Continental Trust Co., N. Y.
Corres. With oil companies
Corres. With New Orleans Progressive Union
Corres. With banks
General correspondence
Box 4: 1899-1903
Pamphlets - "Instruments for the Inspection of Coal Oil and Its Products"
&
"The Oil Fields of Texas Are Making People Rich. A Chance for You"
Specifications for tanks, stills, agitators and condensers for the Southwestern
Oil Co.
General balance sheets and income statement of Southwestern Oil Co. Plans
and prospectus of Houston Oil Company
Statement showing operations of mill for July, 1903
Constitution and By-laws of Houston Freight Bureau
By-laws of Southwestern Oil Co.
General Correspondence
Box 5: 1901-1904
Correspondence with The Thread Agency (the American Thread Co.)
Corres. With Texas Refining Co.
Purchase Ledger voucher
Proposition of J. H. Kirby to Houston Oil Co.
Estate of Caroline Pickman - Jasper County
Beaumont Lumber Co. (list of Pine lands cut and uncut)
Corres. With lumber co., hardware co., steel mills, shoe co.
General corres.
Box 6: 1901-1905
Corres. With Houston Oil Co.
Corres. With W. Y. Fuqua, Auditor of Kirby Lumber Co.
Corres. With F. A. Helbig, Asst. Treasurer of Kirby Lumber Co.
General corres.
Box 7: 1901, 1904-1905
Contract between J. S. Rice and Cecil A. Lyon, the duly appointed and
acting receivers of the Kirby Lumber Co.
Corres. With Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co.
Corres. With lumber companies
Statement of Daily Receipts & Disbursements of Cecil A. Lyon and J.
S. Rice, Receivers, from April 1 to April 30, 1904, inclusive.
Statement of stumpage cut from the J. Carriere, P. A. Sublett, V. E. Disboe,
and
R. A. Irion surveys of land and I. & G. N.R.R. Sections 41 and 56 situated
in Polk, Liberty & Hardin Counties, Texas
Information about the Thalian Club
Timber and lands in Tyler County, owned by Kirby Lumber CO., submitted to
Emporia Lumber Co.
Schedule of insurance and apportionment of claim. Lost by fire Oct. 14,
village mill "L"
Corres. With lawyers
Memo of deal between J. L. Hackney and John H. Kirby
Booklet - Price list ... effective Feb. 23, 1904. Kirby Lumber Co.
Booklet - Price list ... effective Oct. 15, 1904. Kirby Lumber Co.
Kirby Lumber Co. Analysis of John H. Kirby - personal account Dec. 31, 1901;
March 31, 19
Kirby Lumber Co. Cost per 1000 ft. based on mill cut Board measure. June,
1903.
Timber owned by Kirby Lumber Co. near Mobile
Memorandum of merchandise accounts payable for period ending October 31,
1904.
Corres. With banks
Statement of estimated receipts and disbursements between now and Dec. 31,
1904.
List of accounts assigned to The Third National Bank, St. Louis, Mo. Jan.
29, 1904
Accounts payable. Receivers, Kirby Lumber Co., month ending Nov. 3, 1904
Statement of Accounts Payable Receivers, Kirby Lumber Co., Sept. 31, 1904.
General corres.
Box 8: 1902
Picture - New York elevated Railroad locomotives
Statement of outside parties' timber cut by the Kirby Lumber Co. at Beaumont
during the months of Jan., Feb., and March, 1902
General sales department memorandum, statement for Sept., 1902
General correspondence
Box 9: 1902-1904
Circular letters to managers
Box 10: 1902, 1906-1909
Paper showing H. & T. C. Section # 24, Jasper Co. Texas Tram &
Lumber Co.
Correspondence with Hartford Steam Boiler, Inspection & Insurance Co.
Drawing & specifications of a locomotive by Baldwin locomotive Works
Statistics of Southern Car Manufacturing & Supply Co., May 31, 1902
Unpaid vouchers - Southern Car Manufacturing & Supply CO., May 31, 1902
Store department ledger, May 31, 1902, Southern Car Manufacturing &
Supply Co.
Pamphlet - Freight and Passenger Engines
Corres. With railway companies
Inventory of property
Map - Kirbyville Tram
Blueprint - Jasper County
Scalers daily tally
General correspondence
Box 11: 1902-1908
Corres. With railway companies
Corres. With lumber companies
Corres. With general attorneys and attorneys at law
Proposed changes in wages
Corres. With Houston Oil Co.
Corres. With Lutcher Moore Lumber Co.
Corres. regarding overloaded rail cars
General correspondence
Box 12: 1902-1908
Corres. With Lime Locomotive & Machine Co.
Blue prints for a single crank and fly wheel air compressor
Mill sites
Outline of water works line
Map of T. T. C. L. Co. Land
Income account for Jan. - March, 1902
Balance sheet of Houston Oil Co.
Estimated investments of Emporia Lumber Co.
General correspondence
Box 13: 1902-1910
Memorandum bills
Corres. With railway companies
Timber deeds to Cecil A. Lyon and J. S. Rice, Receivers
Corres. With manager of mills and logging
Corres. With Supt. of trams and logging
General correspondence
Box 14: 1902; 1906-1908
Corres. With Hill, Holden & Irvine, mining engineers and metallurgists
Small book: - Kirby Lumber Company Log Scale (1906)
General correspondence
Box 15: 1902-1906; 1908-1914-
Corres. With Hon. S. B. Cooper, House of Representatives, Washington,
V. C.
Blueprint - map showing lands in Kirbyville territory
General correspondence
Box 16: 1902, 1905-1906, 1908-19O9
Corres. With lawyers
Corres. With lumber companies
Schedule of agents balances
Corres. With Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co.
RR situation Nebraska
Wholesale price list
Booklet - Market Report on Yellow Pine Lumber (1909)
Corres. With Dept. of Commerce & Labor, Bureau of Corporations, Washington,
D. C.
List of lands and timber belonging to John Kirby
Kirby lumber Company lands - recapitulation
Statements - C. A. Lyon and J. S. Rice, Receivers
General Correspondence
Box 17: 1902, 1910-1911, 1914-1915
Corres. With lumber companies
Scalers daily tally
Log scale
Contract between Williams Lumber Co. and Kirby Lumber Co.
Blueprint - Joseph Shipp League, San Augustine Co.
Folder - turpentine designations
General correspondence
Box 18: 1902-1903, 1906-1907, 1912-1915
Corres. between manager of mills and logging and superintendent
Corres. requesting permission to cut tracts of land
Corres. With lawyers
Corres. With land commissioner
Corres. With F. M. Aldridge, Asst. to the Pres. of Kirby Lumber Co.
Corres. With lumber companies
General correspondence
Box 19: 1902-1903; 1909-1910
Pamphlets - Price list of Railroad cars and car shop material from Kirby
Lumber Co. and If a Man with t200,000 backing
Rules for the management and care of steam boilers
List of Kirby Lumber Co. plants and their facilities
Minutes of meeting, held at Houston, TX. Nov. 8, 11:00 a.m.
Report from Haskins & Sells, Certified Public Accountants, on accounts
acquired for purchase, operations prior to Jan. 1, 1902
Trial balance of Southern Car Manufacturing & Supply Co.
Corres. With National Dry Kiln Co.
Color chart of Parian House color paint
Advertising sheet on No. 203 Heavy "Fighting" Flooring Machine
Blueprints for -3-40 Steel Blocks: R. H. Band-
Augustus F. Kountze, et al. To deed Kirby Land & Lumber Co.
Receipt for $20.00 payment to Anton Diehl, Conservatory of Music, from C.
P. Myer
Two photographs of two lumber mills
Inspection report on Beaumont Plant by Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance
Statement of timber cut during Sept. 1902
Blueprints for workhouse location
Statement of timber cut during Jan. - July, 1902.
Statement of operations of mill of Jock Moore & Co. for 1909
Smoke stacks needing painting
Inventories revised Dec. 31, 1901 and March 31 ? 1902
General correspondence
Box 20: 1902-1906, 1912-1919
Sketch and estimate of lands and timber near Warren
Corres. With land commissioner
Description of Hardin Co. school land with sketch attached
Description and pictures of locomotive engines, & railcars, both passenger
and freight
Miscellaneous camp reports
Available timber at camp 5, Kirbyville, Jasper Co.
Distribution of vouchers of May 1902
Maps of trams at camp 1-3, 5-7, 9-13
Available timber at mills - (list)
General correspondence
Box 21: 1902;-1912-1916
Contract between John D. and Emma Haynes and John H. Kirby for all the
timber on tract of land purchased by Kirby
List of timber expected to be cut in 12 months
Timber camp #5 cut during 1915
Corres. Regarding permission to cut timber
General correspondence
Box 22: 1903
Corres. With J. W. Bailey, US Senator
Statement of B. F. Bonner's personal liabilities and assets
Corres. Between John H. Kirby and B. F. Bonner
Corres. With Toler & Higgins, Banker & Brokers of Wall Street
Blueprints for proposed pit and track for washing engines
Pamphlet: Timber lands, partial list only
Benjamin Martin - 320 acre survey, Newton Co., TX.
Corres. With lumber companies
Sketch showing location of different surveys on Hezelciah Williams
District Court citation - Nona Mills vs. John H. Kirby et al.
Corres. With insurance companies
General correspondence
Box 23: 1903-1904
Application for position
Donation of land for school houses
Corres. Regarding donation of lumber for churches
Corres. With iron works company
Corres. Regarding ice machines
Corres. Regarding advertising
District Court citation - Margaret P. Thompson vs. Beaumont Lumber Co.
Map - showing subdivisions of Max Vieweger's 169 acres out of the Mary Thompson
League, Polk Co., TX.
Corres. With lumber companies
General Correspondence
Box 24: 1903-1904
Corres. Regarding medical department of company
Pamphlet and printed matter regarding The House of Hoo-Hoo
Corres with the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce
Application letters for position with company
Corres. With lumber companies
Contract, bill of sale with Vaughn Lumber Co.
Contract, bill of sale with Texas & Louisiana Lumber Co.
New Perfect Coupon Book for $1.00, $4.00, $5.00, and $10.00
Pamphlet - National Credit - Registers and Punchouts
Pamphlet - Prospectus Chicago-Texas Land & Lumber Co.
General correspondence
Box-25: 1903-1904
Purchasing orders
Corres. Regarding repair of engines
Corres. Regarding purchase orders
Corres. With lumber companies
Corres. With iron works company
General correspondence
Box 26: 1903-1904
Statement of stumpage cut from Houston Oil Co. lands July 1901 to Feb.
1904
Sale contract with Emporia Lumber Co. for timber in Tyler Co.
Statement of stumpage cut from Houston Oil Co. lands Jan. 1902 to Feb. 1904
Corres with W. Bray - Chief Dept. of Forestry - Texas World's Fair Commission,
The University of Texas regarding exhibit at St. Louis World's Fair
Corres. With American Car & Foundry Co.
Corres. With paper companies
Corres. With W. E. Barns, managing editor of the Lumberman Journal
Semi-annual financial statement of Heisig & Norvell (Inc.) ending June
30, 1903
Corres. With railway companies
Maryland Trust Company, trustee vs. Kirby Lumber Co. et al.
Corres. With law offices
Letters of application for position in company
Letters to managers regarding raise in pay
General correspondence
Box 27: 1903-1904
Daily financial statements for 1903 and 1904
Box 28: 1903-1904
Corres. With lumber companies
Corres. With iron and steel company
Corres. With International & Great Northern Railroad Co.
Corres. With The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
Corres. With Texas & New Orleans Railroad Co.
Corres. With US Circuit Court, Eastern District of Texas
Sketch of portion of Gilbert Stephenson League, Orange County, TX.
Corres. With Richard Hanlon Millinery Co.
Corres. With Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co.
Corres. With Robert Mather, Real Estate Broker
Sketch showing southern portion of the Old Reliance Lumber Co. (now Kirby
Lumber Co.) property in the N.E. part of Beaumont, TX.
Extract from the minutes of the Board of Directors (Jan. 1, 1904)
Corres. With the Mexican Railway Co.
Contract showing debt of Kirby lumber Co. to Planters & Mechanics National
Bank, Houston
Corres. With Etna Life Insurance Co.
Corres. With Senator A. T. Bowser
Corres. With J. Bailey, US Senate
Corres. With Mr. Cooper, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.
General correspondence
Box 29: 1903-1904
Material from National Lumber Manufacturer's Association
Corres. concerning fruit orchards
Corres. With American Academy of Political & Social Science
Pamphlet - Tariff Problems, American and British
Corres. With insurance companies
Corres. With Mr. Cooper, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.
Timber leases that expire in 1903
Corres. With lumber companies
Contract showing money paid by M. E. Yarbrough
General correspondence
Box 30: 1903-1904
Corres. With lumber companies
Corres. With insurance companies
Form of supplemental deed of assignment and contract
Map/scale - Henry W. Bland's subdivision of the James Watson Survey Pat.
287 at the mouth of Adams Bayou, Orange County, TX.
Southwestern Oil Co., B. T. Bonner, June 1901-March 1902
General correspondence
Box 31: 1903-1905
Corres. With lawyers
Corres. With lumber companies
Release to Sam Maida
Comparative statement of wages paid by different mill operators
Statement showing number of feet of loss floated down Sabine River during
1903
Corres. With Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co.
Legal agreement between Gulf, Beaumont & Kansas City Railway Co. and
Kirby Lumber Co.
Blueprint - proposed crossing of Kirby Lumber Co. Tram north of Kirbyville
General correspondence
Box 32: 1903-1905
List of Kirby Lumber Co.
Location of stock in Houston Oil Co.
List of plants and their facilities
Schedule of accounts and bills payable
Adjustment of inventories and trial balance
Schedule of bills payable
Maryland Trust Co., trustee vs. Kirby Lumber Co., et al.
Corres. With lawyers
Petition by employees of Call mill requesting information concerning pay
Deed of assignment and deed of mortgage between Houston Oil Co. and Maryland
Trust Co.
Maryland Trust Co. in equity vs. Kirby Lumber Co.
Inventory of plants and their facilities
Common stockholders of the company
Memo of deal between J. L. Hackney and John H. Kirby
Proceedings of a meeting of the Board of Directors of the company
Memorandum of agreement between Kirby and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway Co.
List of notes secured by vendor's liens, equipment liens, labor liens, misc.
Inventory of Tram property
List of timber and timber lands lying in Angelina Co. owned by company
Information called for in court order of 9-23-1904 regarding contract between
Kirby Lumber Co. and B. J. Yoakum concerning Tram roads
Box 33: 1903-1905
Corres. With railroad companies
Corres. With lumber companies
Corres. With Peden Iron & Steel Co.
Corres. With lawyers
Sales department in Beaumont, trial balance for May 1904
Sales department in Beaumont, trial balance for Feb. 1904
City Sales Dept. Nov. 1903, trial balance
Local Sales Dept., trial balance for Dec. 1903
Sales department in Beaumont, sales for Jan. 1904
Sales Dept., Beaumont, Jan. 1904
Local Sales Dept., trial balance for Dec. 1903
Local Sales Dept., trial balance March 17-31
Local Sales Dept., trial balance Oct. 1903
Local sales dept., trial balance Sept. 1903
Local sales dept., Beaumont, April 1904
Local sales dept., Beaumont, March 18-31, 1904
Local sales dept., trial balance April 1904
List of accounts paid
Local sales dept., trial balance Aug. 31
Contract between Kirby Lumber Company and W. Hurst
General correspondence
Box 34: 1903, 1905-1907, 1909, 1915-1916
List of lands in vicinity of village in SW portion of Tyler Co.
Corres. Regarding timber cut from tracts of land
Report on timber west of village in Hardin and Tyler Counties
General correspondence
Box 35: 1903-1905
Corres. With lawyers
Corres. With lumber companies
Corres with Lufkin National Bank
Corres. With Krupp & Tuffly shoe merchants
Corres. With railway companies
Corres. With architect
Corres. With iron works company
Information sheet for Who's Who in America
Mr. Bonner's application for membership in the Thalian Club
Newspaper clipping - An increase shown in new lumber price lists
Map - tourist routes from Texas to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland
via Santa Fe
General correspondence
Box 36: 1903, 1906-1907, 1909-1913, 1915-1920
Corres. Regarding accounts of Beaumont yard
Corres. With lumber companies
Showing of subdivisions and field notes of "Henry Benns, Hardin Co."
and map showing holdings of Houston Oil CO. in accordance with this tract
Field notes of survey made
Field notes on D. F. Singleton claim
Corres. Regarding permission to cut timber
General correspondence
Box 37: 1903, 1906-1908, 1916-1920
Corres. With: lumber companies, railway companies, Texas Star Flour Mill,
and lawyers
Corres. Regarding: well machinery, and employment with company
Contract with Beaumont Light and Refrigerating Co.
General correspondence
Box 38: 1903-1905, 1907-1909
Corres. With: lawyers, lumber companies, & railway companies
Clipping from The St. Louis lumberman, "A Trifle Too Blue, All Things
Considered"
Newspaper clipping and pamphlet on Gilbert McClurg and his new travel talk
motion pictures
Statement of logs scaled
Corres., R. B. Jones to J. H. Kirby regarding insufficient payment for lumber
ties
Corres. Regarding shares of stock purchased
Statement showing orders for lumber shipments
Memo on lumber movements over Texas railroads
Newspaper clipping, "Protest Against Iniquitous Taxation"
General correspondence
Box 39: 1903-1907, 1909-1918
Camp #3, field notes of Houston Oil Co. holdings in William King survey
Corres. With: managers of mills and logging & Houston Oil Co.
Field notes of Houston Oil Co. holdings in the Daniel Chessher survey in
Jasper Co.
Field notes of S. P. Wortham survey
Field notes on various other surveys
Corres. and material concerning Camp #3
Box 40: 1903-1918
Blueprint: map showing conflict in Browndel territory
Log scale
Corres. With lawyers
Contract, The State of Texas, County of Travis
Field notes
Corres. Concerning the cutting of lumber, logging, etc.
Box 41: 1903-1919
Corres. With land and tax commissioner and lawyers
Corres. With Houston Oil Cry.
Information on different land tracts in Jasper Co.
Sketch - Joseph Lane League
Information concerning various surveys (owned by individuals)
Permission to cut timber on various tracts of land
General correspondence
Box 42: 1903-1919
Corres. Regarding permission to cut timber on various tracts of land
Statement of timber purchased from Allmon Segrest (1905)
Corres. Regarding Samuel P. Fisher survey
Field notes of the Alrosio Rodriquez survey
Information regarding lands in Tyler and Hardin Counties
Evaluation of N. H. Cochran survey in Newton County
General correspondence
Box 43: 1903-1919
Corres. Regarding permission to cut timber on various tracts of land
Statement of lumber bought from Allmon Segrest (1906)
General correspondence
Box 44: 1904
Corres. from the National Association of Manufacturers regarding labor
planks of politic parties
Corres. Regarding account against Lutcher-Moore Lumber Co.
Corres. Regarding donation for church in Silsbee
Corres. With Houston Chronicle, W. E. James (dealer in Southern timber lands),
railway companies, and lawyers
Corres. Regarding: position in company and claim of J. F. Barclay
Maryland Trust Co., complaints against Kirby Lumber Co., et al.
Legal contract with the Bruce Lumber CO.
General correspondence
Box 45: 1904
Corres. With: lawyers; insurance companies; Cooper Committee on Ways &
Means, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.; and railroad companies
Pamphlet - Six-Year One-Term for the President of the United States
Nora J. Chambers, et al. vs. Kirby Lumber Co. (Jefferson County)
Financial condition of the Houston Business League
Blueprint - Townsend addition to the Bluff Prairie Oil Co.
Officers, Directors & members of the Houston Business league
General correspondence
Box 46: 1904
Corres. With: lawyers; lumber companies
Contract with John A. McShane
Agreement with Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company
Log scales
Indenture made with the Atlantic Rice Mills Co.
Blueprint - Proposed spur to the Atlantic Rice Mill at Beaumont, Texas
Blueprint - Beaumont spur for Jackson & Tifal Manufacturing Co.
Justice Court - Joel Mathews vs. Kirby Lumber Co.
Agreement and indenture with the Gulf, Beaumont & Kansas City Railway
Co.
General correspondence
Box 47: 1904
Statement of the Tug boat "Ellwood" - Port Arthur to Aransas
Pass
Corres. With lumber companies and railroad companies
General correspondence
Box 48: 1904-1905
Corres. With Comptroller's Dept., State of Texas; US Senate; insurance
company; railroad companies; and office of Searcy Baker, Supt. Texas State
Penitentiaries
Map - Harris County, Texas (1903)
Letter of recommendation for Clara Brown as school teacher
Will of J. C. Baldwin
Pamphlet - Rapid Mechanical Calculation
Newspaper clippings: "To the Comptroller of the Currency of the US
To the Superintendent of Banking of New York State" New York World,
November 13, 1905; and "Telegram to President Roosevelt" New York
World, November 14, 1905
Commercial fire insurance co. - statement (1905)
General correspondence
Box 49: 1904-1905
Corres. With: lawyers; iron works co.; and railway co.
Corres. Regarding suit by Niles-Bememt-Pond Co.
Survey of plants by Texas Inspection Bureau
Letter of application for position in company
Description of land owned by company to be furnished to the Gulf, Colorado
& Santa Fe Co.
Traffic Dept. - statement of unpaid claims
Statement of division of grades of stock
Statement of memorandum
List of maturities and estimated disbursements for June 1905
Statement of lumber shipped from various mills
Distribution of allowances made by Sales Dept.
Analysis of claims allowed
Timber and lands in Tyler Co. submitted to Emporia Lumber Co.
The Lumber Situation Today and the Causes that are Responsible for Existing
Conditions
List of bonded mill managers, etc.
Maryland Trust Co., trustee vs. Kirby Lumber Co., et al.
General correspondence
Box 50: 1904-1905
Corres. With lawyers & railroad companies
General correspondence
Box 51: 1904-1905
Corres. With: banks; railroad companies; insurance companies; and lumber
companies
Scholarship Certificate
General correspondence
Box 52: 1904-1905
Corres. With managers of mills & logging regarding lumber shipments
Box 53: 1904-1906
Map of the Texas Oil Fields & Timber lands
Information on different mills
Corres. With railroad companies
General correspondence
Box 54: 1904-1906
Correspondence
Shipping business
Box 55: 1904-1906, 1908
Corres. With lawyers and lumber companies
Statement of scrap at various plants as of Feb. 1, 1905
General correspondence
Blueprint - Plat showing location of one of Beaumont Water Supply Co.'s
water mains
Box 56: 1904 & 1907
Circular letters to managers of mills
Court order - Maryland Trust Co.
Corres. With: lawyers; railway co.; and Mr. Alfred Sturgeon, Capt., Salvation
Army
Memorandum of air-dried clears at Silsbee
Lease contract with Texas and New Orleans Railroad Co.
Corres. Regarding distribution of equipment
General correspondence
Box 57: 1904-1905, 1907
Crooked logs - extract from forest mensuration by H. S. Graves
Instructions to scalers
Clauses in the contract of July 1901 with the Houston Oil Co.
General correspondence
Box 58: 1904-1908
Corres. Regarding: destruction of properties by fire; application for
position with company; and boiler insurance
Corres. With: lawyers; lumber companies; and railway companies
Statement of stock on hand at mill "O" (1904)
Statement of taxes
General correspondence
Box 59: 1904-1905, 1907-1903
Corres. With railway company and lumber company
General correspondence
Box 60: 1904-1909
Field notes of the William Allen league in Jasper County
Field notes to six tracts of the William Allen survey owned by the Houston
Oil Co.
Blueprint showing William Allen tract, Henry Webb league, tram road, and
Lucrecia,
Brown & Morris tract
General correspondence
Box 61: 1904-1906, 1910, 1912-1913
Contract with C. J. St. Ores
Summons - Kirby Lumber Co. and D. G. Mann before District Court of Tyler
Co.
Corres. With D. G. Mann, surveyor and timber estimator
Field notes
Corres. With lawyers
General correspondence
Field surveys
Corres. With lawyer-
Map of C. A. Felder league
Tracts of timber cutting from Camp No. 1, Hardin County
General correspondence
Box 63: 1904, 1910-1915
Timber cutting estimates
Estimate of timber in Newton County
Reports on New Main Line Railroad
Status of sections involved in the suit of the Houston Oil Co. vs. the Thompson
& Ford
Lumber Co., August, 1915
Sections in Budconnor territory involved in Thompson & Ford Lumber Co.
suit
Statement showing movement of trains
General correspondence
Box 64: 1904-1907, 1909-1916
Map - showing part of L. D. Leslie abstract
Field notes
Tracts from timber being cut
General correspondence
Box 65: 1904, 1911
Corres. With W. H. Whitehead, dealer in general merchandise
Statement of timber owned near Mobile
General correspondence
Box 66: 1904-1909, 1919-1924
National Committee on European Finance
Pamphlet - International Trade Conference, Report of the Committee on Credits
& Finance
Pamphlet - What is the Houston Social Service Bureau
Statement showing logging operations
Statements - oil charged to saw mills
Fuel costs per day to operate locomotives
Corres. With Louisiana Oil Refining Corporation, railway company, and petroleum
& oil co.
General correspondence
Box 67: 1904-1913, 1918-1919
Abstracts of land and timber
Box 68: 1904-1907, 1909-1914, 1916-1919
Corres. With: railway companies; lawyers; and Houston Oil Co.
Sketch - represents the north 3/4 of Richard Linville League & sub-division
(Demon Co.)
Field notes
General correspondence
Box 69: 1904-1906, 1909-1915, 1920
Corres. With lawyer and Houston Oil Co.
Field notes
List of timber cut
Agreement between D. I. Gallup, J. R. Chapman and Tyler County Lumber Company
Agreement with H. Sowell
General correspondence
Box 70: 1905
Corres. With: US Senate; insurance companies; House of Representatives,
State of Texas lumber companies; lawyers; and railway companies
American Salt Co. vs. Kirby Lumber Co.
Summons
General correspondence
Box 71: 1905
Corres. With: lawyers; House of Representatives, State of Texas; Comptroller's
Dept.,
State of Texas; insurance companies; and railway company
Senate Journal, 29th Legislature
General correspondence
Box 72: 1905
Kirby Lumber Company statements showing mill operations for various months
Box 73: 1905-1906
Corres. With: auditor of company; railway company; lumber company; lawyers;
dry goods stores; shoe company; and insurance company
Agreement with Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company
Corres. Regarding Maryland Trust Co.; trustee vs. Kirby Lumber Company,
et al.
Annual inspection scale (rules, correspondence, etc.) - Jasper, Newton,
& Tyler Counties
Pamphlet - Rubber boots and shoes
General correspondence
Box 74: 1905-1906
Lease of ground for warehouse - Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company
Corres. With: construction company; railway company; attorneys; and Central
Coal & Cite Company
Maryland Trust Company, "trustee" vs. Kirby Lumber Co.
Corres. Regarding position with company
Agreement with Houston Oil Company
General correspondence
Box 75: 1905-1906
Corres. With insurance co.
Recommendations made by insurance companies on mill and locomotive boilers
General correspondence
Box 76: 1905-1907
Bulletin of the National Metal Trades Association (1903)
Newspaper - "Labor Unions, Prosperity's Foes"
Magazine - American Industries (1903)
Newspaper clipping - "Don't Be Deceived!" (concerning trade unions)
Pamphlets - The Corporation Auxiliary Company; Industrial Inspection as
Applied to
Steam Railroads, Street & Suburban Railroads, Mining Companies, etc.
Corres. With National Association of Manufacturers
Estimate on Beaumont Real Estates
Agreement with S. F. Lakey (Hardin Co.) concerning the cutting, floating,
and delivery of Cypress logs
Pamphlet - A Vital Question-The Attitude of Employers Towards Hours and
Wages
Maryland Trust Co., "trustee" vs. Kirby Lumber Co.
Statement showing scale of Houston Oil Co. timber
General correspondence
Box 77: 1905-1907
Corres. With railway company, lumber company, and construction company
Statement of amounts charged by sales dept. against various plants
Synopsis of debit and credit memorandums
Application for position in the commissary department
General correspondence
Box 78: 1905-1907
Various newspaper clippings regarding lumber rates (1905)
Oath of office for Postmaster William J. Blue
Land lease certificates
Statement of Keith Lumber company
Pamphlet - What is Said about our leather belting
General correspondence
Box 79: 1905-1907
Corres. With lawyers and oil companies
Pamphlet - The Bitulithic Pavement
Corres. Regarding tie shipments to different mills
General correspondence
Box 80: 1905-1907
Corres. With lumber companies, lawyers, Exec. Office, State of Texas,
and railway companies
Analysis of memoranda on shipments of lumber made by various plants
Timber leases owned near Mobile, Tyler County, Texas
General correspondence
Box 81: 1905-1908
Corres. With lumber companies, railway companies, and lawyers
Statements of saw gain on various dates
Rules to govern the annual inspection scale
General correspondence
Box 82: 1905-1908
Corres. With lumber companies, railroad companies, and lawyers
Contract for sale of logs
Maryland Trust Co., Trustee vs. Kirby Lumber Co.
General correspondence
Box 83: 1905-1909
Bill for rent of ground located at Woodville, Texas
Standard price list of lumber furnished by company
Contract between J. J. Elam and United lumber & Export Co.
Report on fire loss at mill 'be" - Bronson, Texas
General balance sheet
Reports of special watchmen for office in Mitchell Building, Houston
General correspondence
Box 84: 1905-1909
Statement of company as printed in issue of Moody's Manual (1905)
Tracing showing Keith Lumber Co. logging tram in the Evadale cutting
Sketch showing surveys of timber
Estimate on lumber for Silsbee Methodist Church
Map showing holdings of company
Box 85: 1905-1909
Purchasing requests
Corres. With lawyers and railway companies
General correspondence
Box 86: 1905-1909
Corres. With: lawyers; railway companies; lumber companies; and ice company
Houston Oil Co. - scaler's daily tally
Blueprints for proposed tracks at Kirbyville
Contract with Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway
List of traveling men for 1906
Corres. With ice company regarding sawdust
Map - showing line of the Beaumont Wharf and Terminal Co.
Purchase order forms
General correspondence
Box 87: 1905-1906; 1910; 1912-1917
Corres. Regarding permission to cut timber on various tracts of land
Sketch of William Lake survey
Tracing of the northwest part of the lake claimed by Houston Oil Co.
Field notes
Blueprint - map of Patsy Lewis & J. Saddler surveys
P. E. Hammon, et al. vs. Houston Oil Co.
Corres. Regarding sale of timber to Temple Lumber Co.
Blueprint - Turpentine Orcharding - Gilligan Wizard Co. (Bronson, TX.)
General correspondence
Box 88: 1906
Copy of letter from George Adams (relating to two contracts)
Erie City Iron Works - specifications
Tax list (Beaumont) with the exception of real estate taxes
Statement of cost of logs
Specifications for horizontal tubular boilers
Corres. With insurance company
Specifications and proposition for throttling type steam engines
Blueprints of foundation plan
Pamphlet- Pittsburgh testing laboratory, limited, inspecting and metallurgical
engineers and chemists
Blueprint - Green's patent asbestos door
Pamphlets:
1) Bracing - concerns types of braces for boilers;
2) Rules and requirements of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for construction of waste cans, ash cans, etc.;
3) Suggestions for organizing private Fire Departments; and
4) Rules and requirements of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the construction of hydrants for mill yard use
Specifications for two high pressure tubular boilers
Inspection report - Hartford Steam Boiler - Inspection and Insurance Co.
Statement showing condition of assets, liabilities, and addenda
Blueprint of water tower at mill "M"
Statements of W. K. Kittrell, H. M. Higgins, T. H. Hunter, & Floyd Slater
regarding robbery of safe at R. S. Weathersby's office
Pamphlets- specifications of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for
the manufacture of steam fire pumps
Finck's Railroad Time Book
Pamphlet - Erie City high-pressure stationary boilers
Schedule of new construction and improvements
Insurance in force on mill plants
Statement of Francis Carter Ponce & W. P. Mayo taken at Silsbee State
Bank
Inspection reports
Fourth price list of lumber furnished by company
Statement of lumber shipped from mill "A"
Statement of lumber claims entered
General balance sheet
Statement showing division of grades of stock
Statement of daily receipts and disbursements
Bills payable
Accounts payable (audited vouchers)
General correspondence
Box 89: 1906-1907
Statements showing sections from which waste timber has been scaled
Corres. With lawyers and lumber companies
Inventories of property in various TX. Counties
General correspondence
Box 90: 1906-1907
Corres. With: lawyers; insurance companies; lumber companies; stock; bond;
and investment brokers
Pamphlets - letter of S. B. Cooper to the people of the Second Congressional
District (TX.)
Ye Clubbe - a journal of the Missouri Athletic Club
Brochure - Sixth Semiannual Reunion, Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite
of Freemasonry
General correspondence
Box 91: 1906-1907
Corres. With railway companies, lumber companies, and lawyers
Booklet - Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Statements showing mill operations for different months
General correspondence
Box 92: 1906-1907
Statements - Houston Oil Co. lands
Statements of sections cut by different camps
General correspondence
Box 93: 1906-1907
Corres with lawyers lumber companies and railway companies
Cost bill - B. J. Banner vs. P. & M. National Bank
Accounts payable, bills payable
General correspondence
Box 94: 1906-1907
Contract with A. J. Sheffield and J. B. Swearingen
General correspondence
Box 95: 19061907
Circular letters
Kirby Lumber Co. vs. Maryland Trust Co.
Box 96: 1906-1907, 1909, 1911
Lists of timber cut
Field notes
Specifications for saw mill machinery and power plant
Blueprint of D. L. Gallup and W. P. Wing holdings
Sketch of John Serire League
General correspondence
Box 97: 1906-1907; 1909-1910
Sketch showing the location of the proposed extension of a tram road
Field notes of subdivisions of the M. Bill survey
General correspondence
Box 98: 1906-1908
Requisitions for company
Blueprint of a chain wheel
List showing different values at different plants
General correspondence
Box 99: 1906-1908
Corres. With: insurance companies; lawyers; W. P. Hobby, Editor, Beaumont
Daily Enterprise; music store; lumber companies; railway companies; Traveler's
Protective Association; men's clothing store in New York
Postcard advertising new train transportation
Reminders from Thalian Club to pay dues
Receipt for donation to the Texas Society for the Friendless
Receipts of Missouri Athletic Club
Wedding invitation for marriage of Pearsie Cowley to Buford Nixon
Standard fire insurance policy of the State of New York
Membership card for citizens alliance
Order form from hardware store
Requisition forms
General correspondence
Box 100: 1906-1909
List giving location of locomotives
Corres. Regarding transfer of locomotives and locomotive engines
Corres. With lumber companies
General correspondence
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