Business records including: correspondence, log scaling records,
reports and studies, minutes, personnel records, newsletters and advertising literature,
forestry maps, maintenance and equipment records, timber contracts, forest unit maps,
and company photographs.
Collection Number
AHS-ND 855
Language
English
Repository
Arizona Historical Society/Flagstaff Archives
PO Box 6022
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6022
Phone: 928 523 5551
Fax: 928 774 1596
Email: ahsnad@infomagic.net
Biographical Note
Southwest Forest Industries, originally called Cady Lumber Company, was started in
Flagstaff, Arizona [1924] by two Louisiana lumbermen. In 1935, the company was renamed
Southwest Lumber Mills. The company was purchased in 1951 by a Texas business group
headed by Jim Ben Edens. In the mid 1950's Southwest Lumber Mills bought out the Saginaw
and Manistee Lumber Company. In 1960 the company changed names from Southwest Lumber
Mills to Southwest Forest Industries. The company had several mill sites including
Flagstaff and McNary, Arizona. From a total annual sales of $9m per year in 1951, the
company grew to annual sales of $53 million by 1964.
Scope and Content Note
The collection is approximately 18 linear of business records including:
correspondence; log scaling records; reports and research studies; minutes and meeting
summaries; personnel records; newsletters and advertising literature; forestry maps;
maintenance and equipment records; timber contracts; and company photographs.
This collection is best characterized as the working documents of the Southwest Forest
Industries company, with the office files left in their original provenance arrangement.
Researchers should be aware of the implications of this type of arrangement, unexpected
relationships of materials within a given folder is the rule rather than the exception.
The collection contains significant amounts of data collected in the process of
"scaling" the timber, as well as political correspondence and Legislative Bill
proposals, and includes efficiency study data and other personnel related records.
Notable political correspondence includes thank you notes from Carl Hayden, Steward
Udall and Barry Goldwater. Research records, minutes from various organizational
meetings, budget and finance projections, and contract information all form a
significant portion of the collection. Researchers may find the forest unit maps helpful
in confirming documentary data regarding the location and volume of timber cut.
The collection also contains Southwest Forest Industries company photographs, as well as
early photographs (ca. 1925) of Cady Lumber Company operations (later Southwest Forest
Industries). The Cady Lumber Company operations images are the same as those in the Mrs.
Benton E. Snoddy Collection (NAU.PH.644.1), which can be viewed at the Northern Arizona
University, Cline Library Special Collections and Archives Image Database, URL:
http://www3.nau.edu/cline/collnamereferal.cfm?collection_name=Mrs%2E%20Benton%20E%2E%20Snoddy.
Organization
9 series: I. Legal Contracts/Wood Procurement; II. Statistical Data; III. Organization
Records; IV. Financial; V. Correspondence/Office Files; VI. Personnel; VII. Equipment
and Maintenance Records; VIII. Miscellaneous; IX. Photographs [See: AHS Photograph
Collection #855]
See Arizona Historical Society/Flagstaff archivist regarding employment records.
Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner
of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for Northern Arizona University and the
Arizona Historical Society, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all
claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
4.5 linear feet. Wood Procurement related materials: timber contracts and reports;
timber scaling, shipping, and production records.
Box-folder
1.1
Forest Service contracts and related correspondence,
ca.
1957-1965
Box-folder
1.2
Timber contracts, budgets, cutting plans for pulpwood,
ca.
1960-1965
Box-folder
1.3
Pulpwood hauling contracts; inventory meetings; insurance information;
maverick operations; timber leases; production schedule and pricing,
ca.
1961-1965
Box-folder
1.4
Pulpwood contract forms; daily production and shipment data [McNary,
AZ]; railroad and logging reports,
ca. 1960s
Box-folder
1.5
Pulpwood daily and monthly production and shipment data for Flagstaff,
McNary, and Snowflake mills; related memos and time cards,
ca.
1962-1966
Box-folder
1.6
Timber Bids,
1962-1965
Box-folder
1.7
Timber sales and contract materials for Units: Jenkins Creek; Bonito;
Borrow Pit; Short Cut R/W; Research #1; Coulter #2,
1961-1967
Box-folder
1.8
Timber sales and contract materials for Units: McKay Peak #3; Black
Canyon; South Block; I-40 R/W; Hopen; Lake,
ca. 1962-1965
Box-folder
1.9
Timber sales and contract materials for Units: Rim; Poverty; Sawmill
Springs,
ca. 1959-1961
Box-folder
1.10
Timber sales and contract materials for Units: Prescott; Castle Creek;
Cooley Mountain; Lynx; Penrod Mountain,
ca. 1960-1965
Box-folder
1.11
Timber sales and contract materials: Loop Unit,
1964-1967
Box-folder
1.12
Timber sales and contract materials: East Pocket Unit,
1968
Box-folder
1.13
Timber sales and contract materials for Units: P.S. and Three Forks;
North Fork; Badger Creek; 5-Springs,
1943-1968
Box-folder
2.1
Timber contracts, related inquiries and correspondence between Bill
Bailey and Robert Blaser,
1962-1963
Box-folder
2.2
Contract, Henry Ryberg,
1957-1962
Box-folder
2.3
Timber Appraisals,
1960-1963
Box-folder
2.4
Rough Draft "Forest Management Plan Black River Working Circle Apache
Sitgreaves National Forests;" Office Memorandum, U.S. Government and Forest
Service regarding S-plans, R-3, Sitgreaves National Forest, etc.,
1949-1951
Box-folder
2.5
Timber sales and contract materials for Units: Harris Park; West;
Smith; Los Burros; Cowtrap; Guinea; FH-10 RW; Mule Springs; Pinetop,
1953-1962
Box-folder
2.6
Timber contracts; fire plan; appraisal and roads for Rim Unit,
1958-1962
Box-folder
2.7
Timber sales and contract materials for Units: Sawmill Springs; Milk
Ranch Point; FH-9 R/W; Guinea,
1959-1961
Box-folder
2.8
Pole sales: memoranda, information, and correspondence,
1960-1961
Box-folder
2.9
Timber sales: miscellaneous memoranda and correspondence,
1959-1961
Box-folder
2.10
Contractor file: Robert Noth,
1962-1963
Box-folder
2.11
Log Haul Time Study,
1954
Box-folder
2.12
Timber sales and contract materials for Coconino National Forest Units:
Rim; Harris Park; Sawmill Springs; Kelly Canyon,
1960-1965
Box-folder
2.13
Timber sales and contract materials for Sitgreaves National Forest, Far
Unit,
1961-1966
Box-folder
2.14
Timber sales and contract materials for Units: Apache; Black River;
Sitgreaves; Far; Guineau; West; Los Burros; Palamino; Hopen; PS-3 Forks; Sheep
Crossing; Udall; Canyon Creek,
1961-1964
Box-folder
2.15
Timber sales and contract materials for Sitgreaves National Forest, Far
Unit,
1960-1966
Box-folder
2.16
Timber sales and contract materials for Apache and Coconino National
Forest Units: Mexican Hay Lake; Rim; Poverty; Clover Burn; Engineer; Mahan;
Wolf Creek,
1961-1966
Box-folder
3.1
Timber contracts: contractors' files,
1962-1964
Box-folder
3.2
Timber contracts and option agreements,
ca. 1959-1960
Box-folder
3.3
Maps, Compt. #'s 1-12 and 14,15 Heber W.C.,
ca. 1960
Box-folder
3.4
Weekly contractor contracts, assignments, reports, and related
correspondence; budget ledgers
, ca. 1961-1967
Box-folder
3.5
Weekly contractor reports for Williams, Arizona,
1962-1964
3 linear feet. Timber industry activities including: minutes, reports,
correspondence, studies, research and directories. Organizations represented
include: Western Pine Association, American Pulpwood Association, Pacific Logging
Congress, Forest Products Research Society, etc.
Box-folder
6.1
National Lumber Manufacturers: newsletters, correspondence, legal
information regarding timber regulations, etc.,
1962
Box-folder
6.2
National Lumber Manufacturers: newsletters and correspondence,
1960-1961
Box-folder
6.3
Western Pine Association, National Lumber Manufactures, National Forest
Products, USDA memorandum, regulations and studies,
1963-1965
Box-folder
6.4
Western Pine Association (W.P.A.): meeting minutes, Forest Practices
Committee, and related correspondence,
1950-1963
Box-folder
6.5
Western Pine Association (W.P.A.) materials,
1959-1963
Box-folder
6.6
Western Pine Association (W.P.A.) materials including price index for
Ponderosa Pine,
ca. 1961-1965
Box-folder
6.7
Western Pine Association (W.P.A.) and National Lumber Manufacturers:
appraisals, contracts, meeting minutes,
ca. 1960-1964
Box-folder
6.8
Western Pine Association (W.P.A.): freight rates [nation wide data],
research index and related documents,
1958-1960
Box-folder
6.9
Western Pine Association (W.P.A.): Research Notes Bulletin, data
regarding properties of wood,
1957-1960
Box-folder
6.10
Western Pine Association (W.P.A.): timber appraisal information and
related documents,
1954-1959
Box-folder
6.11
Western Pine Association (W.P.A); Indian timber purchases; "Audit
Report of Portland, Oregon Forest Service" [1955-56],
1953-1959
Box-folder
6.12
Western Pine Association (W.P.A): reports, minutes, correspondence,
and related documents,
1958-1961
Box-folder
6.13
Western Pine Association (W.P.A): research lab progress report and
related documents,
1959-1961
Box-folder
6.14
Forest Products Research Society: minutes, newsletters, lab reports,
1959-1961
Box-folder
6.15
Paper: "Statistical Analysis of Factors Affecting Log Transportation
between Allen Lake and Flagstaff, Arizona," by Dean Edward Aulerich,
1964
Box-folder
6.16
Report: "Report and Map of Proposed Maverick Mountain Timber Unit Fort
Apache Indian Reservation Arizona," by William Heritage, Logging Engineer (at
large),
1931
Box-folder
7.1
Society of American Foresters: memoranda, reports, meeting minutes,
1960-1965
Box-folder
7.2
American Pulpwood Association: memoranda, reports, meeting minutes,
1964
Box-folder
7.3
American Pulpwood Association: memoranda, reports, annual meeting
minutes,
1963
Box-folder
7.4
American Pulpwood Association: memoranda, reports, Board of Directors
meeting minutes,
1961-1962
Box-folder
7.5
American Pulpwood Association: memoranda, reports, organization
directory and by-laws,
ca. 1965
Box-folder
7.6
Bureau of Indian Affairs: correspondence, Cooley Mountain contract,
1963-1966
Box-folder
7.7
Wood Procurement Division: documents regarding meetings of the
supervisors and managers,
1964-1965
Box-folder
7.8
Advisory Committee meeting minutes and related documents regarding
McNary, Arizona division,
1959-1961
Box-folder
7.9
National Lumber Manufacturers Association and National Forest Products
Association Law Information Service, newsletters,
1965
Pacific Logging Congress: meeting minutes and related documents,
1963-1965
Box-folder
7.12
Documents concerning forestry regulations including National Lumber
Manufacturers Association's discussion of 'Right of Way' negotiations with
National Forest Service,
1963
Apache Railway Company: advisory committee meeting minutes and
memoranda,
1959-1960
Box-folder
7.16
Wood Procurement Division: meeting minutes and memoranda,
1955-1962
Box-folder
7.17
Western Pine/Wood Products Association: forestry committees' meeting
minutes, memoranda, correspondence, and other related documents,
1961-1965
Box-folder
7.18
Wood Procurement Division staff meeting minutes and Wood Products group
manager meeting minutes, and related documents,
1962-1964
Box-folder
7.19
Minutes of the Logging Meeting committee,
1963
Box-folder
7.20
Indian Service: timber contract related correspondence with Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Fort Apache Indian Agency, Whiteriver, Arizona,
1961-1965
Box-folder
7.21
Forest Service Roads: includes company written Bill proposals to U.S.
Senators for logging road right-of-way legislation,
1961-1965
Box-folder
7.22
Forest History Society newsletters,
1959-1960
Box-folder
7.23
Central California Kiln Drying Club minutes and kiln drying related
correspondence,
ca. 1959-1960
Box-folder
7.24
Chipping studies: "Report on the Fuel Value loss at McNary Plant due to
Removal of Chipped Residue"; correspondence related to chipping issues,
1960-1963
1.5 linear feet. Bulk of records are company correspondence files regarding all
aspects of the business activities. The surnamed files are mostly those of company
officials and may contain a broad variety of subjects including those address
within other series descriptions. All file folders are in there original
provenience arrangement.
Box-folder
9.1
Robert A. Blaser Files: personal correspondence. Examples include,
correspondence from, Museum of Northern Arizona Director Edward B. Dansen; Mr.
Wills of the Lions Club; Navajo Army Depot Colonel, Wayne L. Wood, etc.,
1958-1961
Box-folder
9.2
Robert A. Blaser Files: American Pulpwood Association Annual Meeting
notices, agendas, and other related materials,
ca. 1963
Box-folder
9.3
Robert A. Blaser Files: Business correspondence and related materials,
1964-1965
Box-folder
9.4
Robert A. Blaser Files: business correspondence; Advisory Meeting
Minutes,
1962-1966
Box-folder
9.5
J.M. Boyd Files: business correspondence,
1961-1962
Box-folder
9.6
J.M. Boyd Files: company memoranda; business correspondence, including
letters to United States Representatives Morris K. Udall and John J. Rhodes,
1962-1963
Box-folder
9.7
J.M. Boyd, V.P. Files: business correspondence regarding public
relations and the Coconino County Fair,
ca. 1960
Box-folder
9.8
Jim Brown Files: business correspondence,
1959-1961
Box-folder
9.10
Arizona Cattle Growers Association correspondence with Robert Blaser;
paper Forest Products Industry and the Multiple Use Concept,
1965
Box-folder
9.11
Correspondence and related materials regarding pulpwood,
1960-1961
Box-folder
9.12
L.P. Dunford Files: business correspondence,
1960-1964
Box-folder
9.13
Bob Edens Files: brochures, correspondence, memoranda,
1961
Box-folder
9.14
J.B. Edens Files: Correspondence and miscellaneous,
ca.
1960
Box-folder
9.15
Forest pest Files: Forest Pest Study Action Committee Minutes;
correspondence regarding forest pests infestations,
1955-1964
Box-folder
9.16
Miscellaneous correspondence including Senator Barry Goldwater, Steward
Udall, and Carl Hayden, signed letters of thanks,
1957-1960
Box-folder
9.17
P.C. Gaffney Files: personnel and business related,
1959-1960
Box-folder
9.18
A.C. Hunt Files: comparative data on lumber values and memoranda,
1959-1960
Box-folder
9.19
Activity Logs [daily diary] for: Bert Jennings, Dan Jones, Al Lindsten,
1964
Box-folder
9.20
Miscellaneous memoranda and correspondence; statistical data regarding
log movement,
1959-1961
Box-folder
9.21
Alvin Lindsten Files: activity and log inspection reports, and contract
related materials,
1961-1963
Box-folder
9.22
Memoranda: business,
1958-1965
Box-folder
9.23
Brian McKnight Files: memoranda, McNary, Arizona advisory meeting
minutes,
1961-1965
1.5 linear feet. Personnel records including, safety and accident reports; labor
management relations; employment applications [restricted access, see archivist];
employee discipline; and overtime reports. All file folders are in there original
provenience arrangement.
Box-folder
10.1
Accident reports,
1959-1960
Box-folder
10.2
Accident reports,
1960
Box-folder
10.3
Accident reports,
1961
Box-folder
10.4
Accident reports, lost time, safety reports,
1963-1965
1.5 linear feet. Maintenance schedule reports, equipment research studies, capital
expenditure related to equipment and maintenance, 2-way radio logs and
newsletters, railroad and locomotive literature and correspondence, advertising
literature and proposals to purchase.
Box-folder
11.1
Equipment: load transfer and car puller literature; drawings and
correspondence with equipment suppliers,
1948-1955
Box-folder
11.2
Equipment: log cars and bunks, includes (5) photographs (left with
manuscript collection); blue prints with purchase list,
1959-1962
Box-folder
11.3
Equipment: track trailer, car leases, correspondence regarding
equipment,
1963-1965
Box-folder
11.4
Equipment: replacement schedule,
1959-1961
Box-folder
11.5
Equipment: advertising literature, proposals to purchase,
correspondence, etc.,
ca. 1959-1962
Box-folder
11.6
Summary of construction and maintenance jobs in progress,
1958-1960
Box-folder
11.7
Maintenance vouchers, cost sheets and related memoranda,
1963-1965
Box-folder
11.8
Mill supply distribution and related correspondence,
1961-1964
Box-folder
11.9
Mobile equipment reports,
ca. 1961-1965
Box-folder
11.10
Authorizations for major maintenance expenditures,
ca.
1965
Box-folder
11.11
Railroad issues: diesel power ratings studies; railroad grade
statistics; railroad yard building costs data; "Locomotive Tonnage Ratings"
study by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation, etc.,
1944 and
1952-1964
Box-folder
11.12
Railroad related correspondence and legal agreements,
1959-1961
Box-folder
11.13
Equipment: Wood Chippers, Locomotive related literature and purchase
information,
1959-1961
Box-folder
11.14
Radio communications: newsletters and directories,
1964-1966
Box-folder
11.15
Radio related materials: newsletters, daily logs, etc.,
1961-1962
Box-folder
11.16
Two-way Mobile Radio Daily Operating Logs,
1962-1966
1.5 linear feet. Miscellaneous files: fire plans; water outlook and snow surveys;
property taxes; proposal for public relations program; student training program;
tree measurement books; forest unit maps, etc. All file folders are in there
original provenience arrangement.
Box-folder
12.1
Property tax materials,
1961-1964
Box-folder
12.2
Water supply and snow surveys,
1965
Box-folder
12.3
Weather reports and predictions from the National Weather Institute,
1963-1965
Box-folder
12.4
Fire plans for districts: Allan Lake, Bosque, Coconino, Heber,
Iris Springs, Maverick; timber sale information,
1961-1965
Box-folder
12.5
Fire prevention plans,
1958-1960
Box-folder
12.6
Geological report, personnel seniority list, shareholder information,
memoranda, and realty literature,
ca. 1960-1964
Box-folder
12.7
"Proposal for Public Relations Program," paper,
ca.
1960
Box-folder
12.8
Company memoranda and production data,
ca. 1961-1965
Box-folder
12.9
Joseph Sterle application cover letter [restricted access, see
archivist]; summary of wood production [1961];insurance statement; legal
correspondence; Wood Procurement data; Forest Products newsletter,
ca.
1956-1966
Box-folder
12.10
Memoranda; Fifth World Forestry Congress booklet; Hoo Hooter club
correspondence; timber grade studies; wood glue data,
1956-1961
Political correspondence and Bill proposals; sawmill cut by specie
data,
ca. 1958-1961
Box-folder
12.15
Sales training schedule; telegrams; machine blueprints,
ca.
1959-1960
Box-folder
12.16
Machine literature; timber sale agreement [1925]; forest pest
(infestation) paper; staff meeting [1967]; union agreement; Northwestern Logger
newsletter,
1925, 1960, 1963-1967
Box-folder
12.17
Forest Products Research Society materials: reports, memoranda,
correspondence,
1961-1965
Box-folder
12.18
Memoranda; classification register of employees; mill supply data
forms; correspondence,
1959-1965
Box-folder
12.19
Ponderosa Pine Growth Studies paper; Forestry Study of Fort Apache
Indian Reservation Cady Lumber Corporation Sale Area document; research notes
and studies; memoranda,
1957-1967
Box-folder
12.20
Proposal for corporate giving policy; Christmas letter to employees;
meeting announcement; machine information,
1961-1963
Box-folder
12.21
Forest Service Unit maps: Guinea Unit; Jackson Unit; Toms Creek Unit;
West Unit; Canyon Diablo Unit; Smith Unit; Los Burros Unit; McKay Peak; Sawmill
Creek Unit,
ca. 1960
Box-folder
12.22
U.S.D.A National Forest Service Tree Measurement Book No.I and II,
1966
Box-folder
12.23
Forest Service publication on pulpwood in Northern Black Hills; Spruce
Bug Worm report; kiln dry schedule correspondence,
1955-1957
Box-folder
12.24
City of Flagstaff water map, 1946; thank you letter from Attorney
Laurance Wren for Locomotive donation (to Coconino County Fair), 1959; Blasting
operations permit, 1956,
1946, 1956, 1959
Box-folder
12.25
Cady Lumber Company Stockholder's Purchase Report,
1925.
Gives the financial history of Cady Lumber Company along with up-to-date (ca.
1925) financial report.
120 photographs. Photographs of Southwest Forest Industries operations including:
logging, shipping, administrative staff, and lumber mill activities. Also
photographs of the Arizona Lumber Company (Cady Lumber Company, aka: Southwest
Lumber Mills) McNary, Arizona operations, ca. 1925.
Box-folder
AHS.PH.855 #1-10
Photographs of Southwest Forest Industries operations,
ca.
1960.
Includes photographs of logging, shipping, and mill operations.
Box-folder
AHS.PH.855 #11-19
Photographs of Southwest Forest Industries operations,
ca.
1960.
Includes logging, shipping, "chip pile", derailed train engine, and mill
operation images.
Box-folder
AHS.PH.855 #20-29
Photographs of Southwest Forest Industries operations,
ca.
1960.
Photograph of train derailment. African American workers are prominent in the
images.
Box-folder
AHS.PH.855 #30-42
Photographs of Southwest Forest Industries operations,
ca.
1960.
Photographs of train derailments; fire at the Mill (color, night image);
Chip-pile of Snowflake, Arizona inventory.
Box-folder
AHS.PH.855 #43-50
Photographs of Southwest Forest Industries operations,
ca.
1960.
Company personnel; mill equipment; loading milled lumber.
Box-folder
AHS.PH.855 #51-88
Photographs of Cady Lumber Company operations,
ca.
1925.
Photographs from the Cady Lumber Company (aka: Flagstaff Lumber Company; aka:
Southwest Lumber Mills) later the Southwest Forest Industries. These image are
the same as those in the Mrs. Benton E. Snoddy, which can be viewed at the
Northern Arizona University, Cline Library Special Collections and Archives
Image Database, URL:
http://www3.nau.edu/cline/collnamereferal.cfm?collection_name=Mrs%2E%20Benton%20E%2E%20Snoddy
Box-folder
AHS.PH.855 #89-120
Photographs of Cady Lumber Company operations,
ca.
1925.
Photographs from the Cady Lumber Company (aka: Flagstaff Lumber Company; aka:
Southwest Lumber Mills) later the Southwest Forest Industries. These image are
the same as those in the Mrs. Benton E. Snoddy, which can be viewed at the
Northern Arizona University, Cline Library Special Collections and Archives
Image Database, URL:
http://www3.nau.edu/cline/collnamereferal.cfm?collection_name=Mrs%2E%20Benton%20E%2E%20Snoddy
