Arkansas Lumber Company, Warren, Arkansas
(These items are located at the Bradley County Historical Museum
in the Dr. John Wilson Martin House at 200 Ash Street, Warren, AR 71671)

View of the Arkansas Lumber Company's office, Warren, Arkansas

"LOOKING AT STURGIS - Arkansas Lumber Company's office is at right on Sturgis Street [note the boardwalk
leading from the mill to the residential area]. Company houses are pictures throughout, with the smokestack from
Southern Lumber Company at right." [Think that should say "at left"(?)]

Arkansas Lumber Company's office, Warren, Arkansas

"COMPANY OFFICE - Arkansas Lumber Comapany office stood until a quarter of a
century ago, when homes for Ava Hairston and Joyce Lee were constructed on the site."

Arkansas Lumber Company, Warren, Arkansas

"LOOKING AT MARTIN STREET - This view is from the company water-tank eastward showing the company
storage sheds. At left is the company store on the current site of Arkansas Bradley Builders Supply. In the photo, the
courthouse steeple can be discerned, as can the steeple of the First Methodist Church South, then located where the
Coker Hotel is now situated"

Arkansas Lumber Company, Warren, Arkansas

"ARKANSAS LUMBER COMPANY - Here is a general view of the Arkansas Lumber Company, situated
where the Fairgrounds and West Side School are now located. Owned by Rittenhouse and Embree interests of
Chicago, the concern operated only a little over 25 years, going out of business in 1928. Arkansas Lumber Company
owned about 85,000 acres of land near Warren; most of it went to the Murphy-McKinney interests of El
Dorado [they had money from the 'oil boom' and bought the land for a song]."

Arkansas Lumber Company Kilns, Warren, Arkansas

"DRY KILNS - Dry kilns at Arkansas Lumber Company featured their own boiler system, with the
main smokestack to be seen at right."

Arkansas Lumber Company Powerhouse, Warren, Arkansas

"POWER HOUSE - Arkansas Lumber Company's power house is at left, with the log pond in the foreground.
Note the elevated tramway behind the log pond and the water tank at right [Arkansas Lumber Company provided
Warren's first electrical power, too, ere World War I]."

Arkansas Lumber Company Log Pond, Warren, Arkansas

"LOG POND - Arkansas Lumber Company's log pond was located on West Central, near
the current location of the Power House Church of God in Christ and the Union Hill Missionary
Baptist Church [across the street to the north, of course]."

Arkansas Lumber Company, Company Store, Warren, Arkansas

"ARKANSAS TRADING COMPANY - This was the 'company store' for Arkansas Lumber Company,
at Sturgis and Martin, just across from T. K. Ashcraft's body shop."

Arkansas Lumber Company, Inside the Company Store, Warren, Arkansas

"TRADING COMPANY INTERIOR - Here is the interior of the Arkansas Trading Company store on
Martin Street. Notice the bolts of material on the left, the shoes on the right. One of the store's managers
was Lee Harley, father of Mrs. M. C. Singer and the late Roy and Jessye Mae Harley, Warren. Mr. Harley
was an early leader in the Warren Rotary Club."

Arkansas Lumber Company Clubhouse, Warren, Arkansas

"COMPANY CLUBHOUSE - Clubhouse for single members of the workforce at Arkansas Lumber Company
still stands on Sturgis Street."

Arkansas Lumber Company Clubhouse, Warren, Arkansas

DINNERTIME - They set a nice table at the Arkansas Clubhouse on Sturgis Street. Note the napkins
encircling coffee cups, the white tablecloths, and lace curtains at the windows."

Arkansas Lumber Company's Virgin Pine Timber, Bradley County, Arkansas

"WAY IT LOOKED - Julius H. Adams, chief timber buyer for Arkansas Lumber Company, is pictured
in the virgin pine timber the company had 80 years ago. Mr. Adams built the residence between Warren
and Hermitage now occupied by the Jimmy Wiggins family. Mr. Adams, his wife, their daughter and her
family resided there."

Handwritten date reads 7-2-86

Arkansas Lumber Company's Virgin Pine Timber, Bradley County, Arkansas

"BIG LOGS - These are the kind of logs that came from the virgin timber on Arkansas Lumber Company lands
in western Bradley County, Horses were used by the logging crews above."

Arkansas Lumber Company's Logging Camp, Bradley County, Arkansas

"LOGGING CAMP WATER - Water for Alaska Lumber Company's camp was pumped from a deep well
by a steam engine [left] and stored in a portable water tank [right]. A deep well was sunk each time the logging
camp was moved to a new site."

Arkansas Lumber Company's Logging Camp, Bradley County, Arkansas

"LOGGING CAMP - This scene was made at the Arkansas Lumber Company logging camp in
western Bradley County. Note the large number of oxen seen in the picture; these were extensively
used in the logging operation."

Arkansas Lumber Company's Workforce, Warren, Arkansas

"THE WORKFORCE - People who worked for Arkansas Lumber Company [the plant employees only]
gathered for this photograph. C. J. Mansfield and C. A. Derby, who ran the mill for its Chicago owners, are in front."

Arkansas Lumber Company Executives

"EXECUTIVES - K. G. Morley, sales manager, and C. A. Derby, plant superintendent, of
Arkansas Lumber Company are pictured in their shared office on Sturgis Street. Note the cuspidors."

Arkansas Lumber Company's Top Executive, Warren, Arkansas

"TOP EXECUTIVE - Clifford J. Mansfield, vice-president and general manager of Arkansas Lumber Company,
is pictured in his office. Mr. Mansfield gave most of the money for the Warren city hall and left money that was
spent on the new First Presbyterian Church. The table in the picture is still at Derby insurance, operated by the
grandson of his onetime associate, Charles Arthur Derby."

Handwritten date reads 7-2-86

W&OV Railroad Station, Bradley County, Arkansas

"W&OV STATION - This 1907 view of the W&OV Station shows that the essentials of the building have been
kept in the remodeling program that's made it headquarters for the W&SR Railroad. W&OV was a logging line
that extended from Warren to Banks and a connection with the Rock Island there. The line was jointly owned
by Southern and Arkansas lumber companies, with W. S. Hobbs as general manager."

W & O V Railroad Logging Line, Engine #5, Bradley County, Arkansas

"ENGINE FIVE - W&OV's engine number five, of the Shays make, is shown. Note that a line shaft turned
the wheels. Shays engines were very powerful, also very slow, but were used only in the logging woods."

W & O V Railroad Logging Line, Engine #11, Bradley County, Arkansas

ENGINE ELEVEN - W&OV's Engine 11 was used to move logs out of the woods to the sawmill [trucks, in
those days, were most rudimentary].

W & O V Railroad, Excursion Group, Bradley County, Arkansas

"EXCURSION GROUP - This group boarded a W&OV Train at Warren and went to Banks, thence to Crossett.
Peaople are unidentified, but at top right center are Charles Arthur Derby, superintendent of the plant, and his wife,
Zuloo Doudna Derby. Their son, Lawrence H. Derby, senior, is at left front with a stick over his shoulder.
C. J. Mansfield is at right. Picture was made in 1907."

C. A. Derby Residence, Bradley County, Arkansas

"DERBY RESIDENCE - This was the home of C. A. Derby, plant superintendent for Arkansas Lumber Company.
His widow remained there after his death; she was the longtime choir director of the First Presbyterian Church."

K. G. Morley Residence, Warren, Arkansas

"MORLEY RESIDENCE - This is the home of K. G. Morley, an official of Arkansas Lumber Company.
Doesn't this residence still stand, remodeled somewhat, on Lincoln Street?"

These photographs appear courtesy of Brenda Ezell.