Lumber industry and timber.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Stephen B. Elkins Correspondence and Records Relating to Coal, Railroad, and Other Industries
Business and legal papers of U.S. Senator and timber, coal, and railroad magnate Stephen B. Elkins. Subjects include the Hampshire and Baltimore Coal Company, Davis Coal and Coke Company, West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh and the Morgantown and Kingwood railroads, timber and coal lands, the Pressed Prism Plate Glass Company (NY), and Hallihurst Farm.
T.B. Cauthorn Papers
Business correspondence, accounts, ledger book, and legal papers of Townley B. Cauthorn, farmer and lumber merchant of Millboro (Bath County), Virginia. The collection contains pay records for sawmill hands and farm laborers, employee purchase accounts, and legal documents. Also included are a record of road work done in Bath County when Cauthorn was Commissioner of Roads and an agreement between Cauthorn and Edgar S. Davis for the adoption by Cauthorn of Mattie Davis.
Webster County History
This collection includes two typescripts on the history of Webster County ("Local History Perspectives of Webster County, West Virginia; History of Cutting on Pardee-Curtin Lumber Company Lands") and xeroxed production statistics for the Pardee-Curtin Lumber Company's operations in Webster County, 1928-76.