Contains the business records of the Arizona Lumber and Timber
Company as well as subsidiary and predecessor organizations including the: Ayer Lumber
Company (aka: Ayer's Mill), which became the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company after
being purchased by Denis M. Riordan; the Riordan Mercantile Company (company store of
the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company); the Arizona Supply Company; the McKay Cattle
Company; the Black Cattle Company; the Greenlaw Lumber Company (The Riordans bought
controlling interest in 1897); the Spangler Sheep Company; the Howard Sheep Company; the
Central Arizona Railway Company; the Flagstaff Electric Light Company; and the Flagstaff
Community Hotel. All records are ca. 1881 to 1950.
Collection Number
AHS-ND 47
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
The Riordan family first established themselves in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1884 when the
oldest of three brothers, Denis Matthew ("Matt") Riordan, became general manager of the
Ayer Lumber Company (established in 1881 following the demand for railroad ties for the
Atlantic-Pacific rail line project). In 1887 Denis ("Matt") Riordan bought the Ayer
Lumber Company. He changed the name of the company to the Arizona Lumber and Timber
Company, and his brothers Timothy and Michael Riordan helped run the operations. By 1893
(1897?) Denis ("Matt") Riordan had sold his interests in the Arizona Lumber and Timber
Company (AL and T) to his brothers Tim and Mike and general manager Frederick W.
Sisson.
From the time they came to the area the Riordans were civic leaders in Flagstaff,
establishing such institutions as the first electric company (Flagstaff Electric Light
Company), the first library, literary clubs, and the Lake Mary Reservoir (named after
Tim's daughter).
In 1933 the Riordans sold their interest in the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company to
I.B. Koch, one-time Flagstaff mayor. Timothy A. Riordan continued to serve on the
company board of directors until his death in Los Angeles, California, 1946. Michael J.
Riordan died following surgery in Minnesota, 1930. Denis M. Riordan died at his San
Francisco, California home in 1928. Blanche Riordan Chambers, daughter of Michael J.
Riordan, was the last member of the Riordan family to live at the Riordan Mansion
(Kinlichi). She died in 1985, leaving the mansion to the Arizona State Park system
(Riordan Mansion State Historic Park).
Scope and Content Note
Contains the business records of the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company (formerly Ayer
Lumber Company, aka: Ayer's Mill), as well as subsidiary and predecessor companies
including: the Ayer Lumber Mill (which became the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company
after being purchased by Denis M. Riordan), the Riordan Mercantile Company (company
store of the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company), the McKay Cattle Company, the Black
Cattle Company, the Greenlaw Lumber Company (which the Riordan financial empire gained
controlling interest of in 1897), the Spangler Sheep Company, the Howard Sheep Company,
the Central Arizona Railway Company, the Flagstaff Electric Light Company, the Arizona
Supply Company, and the Flagstaff Community Hotel. The records fall within the time
period of 1881 to 1950.
These records represent some of the most detailed and extensive business related
materials associated with economic development in the Northern Arizona region. The broad
range of business interests represented by the collection (and the associated, Riordan
Family Collection, AHS #4) reflects the story of relationships between the lumber
industry and the railroads; labor and management; politics and capitalism;
infrastructure and community development; and even the importance of social
relationships among the capitalist class (ex: Riordan and Babbitt joint business
interests; Riordan and Babbitt marriages into the wealthy Metz family, originally from
Cincinnati, Ohio).
[Note: Many of the materials from this collection survived a fire at the Riordan Office
Building where they were originally stored. Therefore, researchers should be forewarned
that some documents may be brittle and may also have carbon residue (soot) from smoke
damage.]
Organization
4 Series: I. Correspondence; II. Financial/Legal Records [includes subseries]; III.
Subsidiary Companies [includes subseries]; IV. Miscellaneous MaterialsThe arrangement of materials within this collection is generally chronological and by
subject. Because much of the original material types changed names over time, and/or
contain multiple subjects within any ledger or set of documents, the researcher should
not assume that the headings and subsequent groupings in the guide represent strictly
defined categories exclusive of any other definition or types of information. In most
cases, and particularly notable within the correspondence, the original order of the
records is maintained. This in turn reflects the various physical locations of company
records and thereby the seeming fragmentation of chronological order. Therefore,
researchers are advised to access specific data through the EAD search engine.
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.
Flagstaff Community Hotel, AHS Manuscript Collection #10.
Denis Matthew Riordan papers, 1880-1915 [LC Call# F819.F5 R567].
D. M. (Denis Matthew "Matt") Riordan Papers, 1886-1914, MSS 169 BC, located at the
University of New Mexico, General Library Collection, Center for Southwest Research:
http://eLibrary.unm.edu/oanm/NmU/nmu1%23mss169bc/.
Sisson, Frederick William, AHS Manuscript Collection #103.
210 linear feet. Business correspondence of the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company,
including some correspondence of subsidiary companies, Greenlaw Lumber Company and
Ayer Lumber Company (predecessor to Arizona Lumber and Timber Company).
(Additional business correspondence of Michael J. Riordan can be found in the
Riordan Family Collection [AHS #4]).
Box
131
Correspondence: Incoming "A-C",
December 1886 to April
1887
Box
132
Correspondence: Incoming "D-G",
April 1887 to October
1887
Box
133
Correspondence: Incoming "H-L",
April 1887 to October
1887
Box
135
Correspondence: Incoming "M-R",
December 1886 to April
1887
Box
136
Correspondence: Incoming "S-Z",
April 1887 to October
1887
Box
137
Correspondence: Incoming "A-C",
1887-1888
Box
138
Correspondence: Incoming,
ca. 1887-1909
Miscellaneous correspondence and legal documents.
Box
139
Correspondence: Incoming "Br-Bz",
1888-1891
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company.
Box
140
Correspondence: Incoming "G",
1888-1891
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company.
Box
141
Correspondence: Incoming "I-J",
1888-1891
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company.
Box
142
Correspondence: Incoming "K",
1888-1891
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company.
Box
143
Correspondence: Incoming "Mc",
1888-1891
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company.
Box
144
Correspondence: Incoming "M-R",
1887-1888
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company.
Box
145
Correspondence: Incoming "O",
1888-1891
Box
146
Correspondence: Incoming "Sa-Sc",
1888-1891
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company.
Box
147
Correspondence: Incoming "Se-Sn",
1888-1891
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company.
Box
148
Correspondence: Incoming "So-Sy",
1888-1891
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company.
Box
149
Correspondence: Incoming "U-V",
1888-1891
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company.
Box
803
Correspondence: Ayer Lumber correspondence (Arizona Lumber and Timber
Company),
1887
Ayer correspondence and business related materials.
Box
150
Correspondence: Incoming "W-Z",
1888-1891
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company.
Box
151
Correspondence: Incoming "A-Z",
1890-1891
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
152
Correspondence: Incoming "A",
1891-1895
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
153
Correspondence: Incoming "A",
1895-1900
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company; Central Arizona Railway Company;
Howard Sheep Company.
Box
154
Correspondence: Incoming "Ba-Be",
1894-1897
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company.
Box
793
Correspondence: Arizona Lumber and Timber Company,
1889-1904
Michael J. Riordan, Timothy A. Riordan and F. Sisson business correspondence;
as well as receipts, warranty deeds and other business related materials.
Box
155
Correspondence: Incoming "Br-Bz",
1891-1898
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Howard Sheep Company.
Box
156
Correspondence: Incoming "C",
1892-1894
Riordan Mercantile Company.
Box
802
Correspondence: Arizona Lumber and Timber Company,
1893-1894
Michael J. Riordan, Timothy A. Riordan and F. Sisson business correspondence;
as well as receipts, warranty deeds and other business related materials.
Box
157
Correspondence: Incoming "C",
1894-1895
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Howard Sheep Company.
Box
159
Correspondence: Incoming "C",
1899-1900
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company; Howard
Sheep Company; Central Arizona Railway Company.
Box
160
Correspondence: Incoming "D",
1891-1895
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company.
Box
161
Correspondence: Incoming "D",
1895-1898
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company; Arizona Central Bank.
Box
162
Correspondence: Incoming "D",
1898-1901
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company.
Box
163
Correspondence: Incoming "E",
1895-1900
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Howard Sheep Company.
Box
164
Correspondence: Incoming "F",
1891-1898
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Howard Sheep Company.
Box
165
Correspondence: Incoming "F",
1899-1901
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company; Howard Sheep Company.
Box
166
Correspondence: Incoming "G",
1891-1898
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Howard
Sheep Company.
Box
167
Correspondence: Incoming "G",
1898-1901
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Flagstaff Oil Company.
Box
168
Correspondence: Incoming "H",
1891-1893
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
169
Correspondence: Incoming "K",
1891-1901
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Howard Sheep Company.
Box
170
Correspondence: Incoming "L",
1891-1892
Riordan Mercantile Company.
Box
171
Correspondence: Incoming "Mc",
1891-1900
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
172
Correspondence: Incoming "Mi-My",
1891-1900
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Arizona Central Bank.
Box
173
Correspondence: Incoming "N",
1891-1901
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company; Greenlaw
Lumber Company.
Box
174
Correspondence: Incoming "P",
1893-1895
Box
175
Correspondence: Incoming "R",
1891-1895
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Central Arizona Railway Company.
Box
176
Correspondence: Incoming "R",
1895-1897
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company.
Box
177
Correspondence: Incoming "R",
1897-1901
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company; Central
Arizona Railway Company; Howard Sheep Company.
Box
178
Correspondence: Incoming "Sa-Sc",
1894-1898
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
179
Correspondence: Incoming "Sa-Sc",
1895-1898
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
180
Correspondence: Incoming "Se-Sn",
1891-1898
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Howard Sheep Company.
Box
181
Correspondence: Incoming "Sa-Sca",
1898-1900
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Saginaw Lumber Company; Santa Fe Pacific
Railroad Company.
Box
182
Correspondence: Incoming"So-Sy",
1897-1900
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
183
Correspondence: Incoming "T",
1891-1901
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company; Howard Sheep Company.
Box
184
Correspondence: Incoming "U-V",
1891-1900
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Greenlaw
Lumber Company.
Box
185
Correspondence: Incoming "W-Z",
1891-1896
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Central Arizona Railway Company.
Box
186
Correspondence: Incoming "W-Z",
1897
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
187
Correspondence: Incoming from Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad,
1897-1899
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
188
Correspondence: Incoming from Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad,
1899-1900
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
189
Correspondence: Incoming,
1893-1894
Bank related; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
190
Correspondence: Incoming,
1899-1900 [no February
1899]
Bank related; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
191
Correspondence: Incoming,
1898-1899
Pine Box Company related; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
192
Correspondence: Incoming,
1895-1896
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.
Box
193
Correspondence: Incoming,
1896-1898
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.
Box
194
Correspondence: Incoming "A",
1900-1901
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Flagstaff
Electric Light Company; Howard Sheep Company.
Box
195
Correspondence: Incoming "Ba-Be",
1900-1901
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Flagstaff
Electric Light Company.
Box
196
Correspondence: Incoming "C",
1900-1901
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company;
Howard Sheep Company; Greenlaw Lumber Company.
Box
197
Correspondence: Incoming "E",
1900-1901
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
198
Correspondence: Incoming "L",
1900-1903
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
199
Correspondence: Incoming "L",
1900-1907
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Greenlaw
Lumber Company.
Box
200
Correspondence: Incoming "Mi-My",
1900-1904
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
201
Correspondence: Incoming "So-Sy",
1900-1902
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
202
Correspondence: Incoming "Br-By",
1901-1904
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Flagstaff
Electric Light Company; Howard Sheep Company.
Box
203
Correspondence: Incoming "C",
1901-1902
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
204
Correspondence: Incoming "D",
1901-1902
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company.
Box
205
Correspondence: Incoming "F",
1901-1905
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and company store, Riordan Mercantile
Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company;
Flagstaff Mutual Telephone Company; Arizona Central Bank.
Box
206
Correspondence: Incoming "K",
1901-1905
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Flagstaff
Electric Light Company.
Box
207
Correspondence: Incoming "N",
1901-1906
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Flagstaff
Electric Light Company.
Box
208
Correspondence: Incoming "Sa-Sc",
1901-1903
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
209
Correspondence: Incoming "U-V",
1901-1904
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company.
Box
210
Correspondence: Incoming "C",
1902-1903
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
211
Correspondence: Incoming "D",
1902-1905
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company.
Box
212
Correspondence: Incoming "W-Z",
1902-1904
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Flagstaff
Electric Light Company.
Box
213
Correspondence: Incoming "A",
1903-1904
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
214
Correspondence: Incoming "Bi-Bo",
1903-1905
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
215
Correspondence: Incoming "E",
1903-1905
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Howard
Sheep Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company.
Box
216
Correspondence: Incoming "L",
1903-1905
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Flagstaff
Electric Light Company.
Box
217
Correspondence: Incoming "Sa-Sc",
1903-1905
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
218
Correspondence: Incoming "C",
1904-1905
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; Howard
Sheep Company; Greenlaw Mill (Lumber Company); Flagstaff Electric Light
Company.
Box
219
Correspondence: Incoming "So-Sz",
1904-1908
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
220
Correspondence: Incoming,
1903-1904
Banks; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
221
Correspondence: Incoming,
1906-1910
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company letters; Arizona Lumber and
Timber Company.
Box
222
Correspondence: Incoming,
1902 [no January]
California Sugar and White Pine Agency; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
223
Correspondence: Incoming
, 1904-1908
Flagstaff Electric Light Company.
Box
224
Correspondence: Incoming,
1900-1901
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Howard Sheep Company; Flagstaff Electric
Light Company.
Box
225
Correspondence: Incoming,
1902-1904
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company letters; Arizona Lumber and
Timber Company; Flagstaff Oil Company; Central Arizona Railway Company;
Flagstaff Electric Light Company.
Box
226
Correspondence: Incoming,
1904-1906
Santa Fe letters; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
227
Correspondence: Incoming,
1900
Pine Box Manufacturer's Agency letters; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
228
Correspondence: Incoming,
1897-1903
Pine Box Manufacturer's Agency letters: telegrams; minutes of Executive and
Auditing Committee meeting; reports; gross foot shipments from factories
data.
Box
229
Correspondence: Incoming,
1903
Pine Box Manufacturer's Agency; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; minutes of
Executive and Auditing Committee meeting; minutes of Board of Agents meeting;
reports.
Box
230
Correspondence: Incoming,
1904-1907
Pine Box Manufacturer's Agency; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
231
Correspondence: Incoming "A",
1905-1906
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
232
Correspondence: Incoming "A",
1905-1907
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
233
Correspondence: Incoming "D",
1905-1907
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company, Dutton. Includes map of Phoenix and Salt
River Valley.
Box
234
Correspondence: Incoming "H",
1905-1906
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Howard Sheep Company. Department of
Agriculture Forest Service Grazing Regulations.
Box
235
Correspondence: Incoming "Sa-Sc",
1905-1906
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
236
Correspondence: Incoming "T",
1905-1907
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
237
Correspondence: Incoming "Ba-Be",
1906-1907
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
238
Correspondence: Incoming "Bi-Bo",
1906-1907
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
239
Correspondence: Incoming "Bi-Bo",
1906-1910
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway; Greenlaw Lumber
Company.
Box
240
Correspondence: Incoming "Ma-Me",
1906-1907
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
241
Correspondence: Incoming "Mc",
1906-1907
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company.
Box
725
Correspondence: Incoming "A-W",
1909
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
242
Correspondence: Incoming "Ba-Be",
1907
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railway; Flagstaff Electric
Light Company.
Box
243
Correspondence: Incoming "D",
1907-1908 and 1895-1897
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. Includes papers concerning U.S. vs Dennis
Dowd and Arizona Lumber and Timber Company, 1895.
Box
244
Correspondence: Incoming "H",
1907
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
245
Correspondence: Incoming "L",
1907-1910 (1905)
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. Includes some older legal contracts for
timber cutting (earliest, 1881).
Box
246
Correspondence: Incoming "P-Q",
1907-1909
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. Includes some older legal contracts for
timber cutting.
Box
247
Correspondence: Incoming "Ba-Be",
1908-1909
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
248
Correspondence: Incoming "C",
1908-1909
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. Includes some older legal contracts for
timber cutting.
Box
249
Correspondence: Incoming "G",
1908-1909
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. Includes some miscellaneous records the
Greenlaw Lumber Company.
Box
250
Correspondence: Incoming "H",
1908-1909
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
251
Correspondence: Incoming "Se-Sn",
1908-1911
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
252
Correspondence: Incoming "F",
1909-1910
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
253
Correspondence: Incoming "O",
1910-1913
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. Includes Flagstaff Town Ordinance #135.
Box
254
Correspondence: Incoming,
1905-1909
California Sugar and White Pine Agency; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Minutes of Board of Directors meeting.
Box
255
Correspondence: Incoming,
1905-1911
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; California Pine Box and Lumber Company.
Box
256
Correspondence: Incoming,
1907-1908
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; California Pine Box and Lumber Company.
Box
257
Correspondence: Incoming,
1908-1910
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; California Pine Box and Lumber Company.
Box
258
Correspondence: Incoming "P-Q",
1911-1913
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Greenlaw Lumber Company; Flagstaff Electric
Light Company. Includes brochure on Parker Shotgun.
Box
259
Correspondence: Incoming, "O",
1912-1913
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Greenlaw Lumber Company. Includes
Democratic Party leaflet for Woodrow Wilson.
Box
260
Correspondence: Incoming, "Sag-Sc",
1912-1914
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Howard Sheep Company.
Box
261
Correspondence: Incoming "A-W",
1913
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Greenlaw Lumber Company; Flagstaff Electric
Light Company.
Box
262
Correspondence: Incoming "Ma-Me",
1913
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
263
Correspondence: Incoming "T",
1913
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railroad. Includes Arizona
Taxpayer Magazine, August 1914.
Box
264
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "F",
ca. 1917
Box
265
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "D",
1892-1917
Box
266
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "A-B",
1914
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
267
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Da-Davis",
1914
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
268
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "De-Eq",
1914
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
269
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "R",
1914
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Central Arizona Railroad; Flagstaff
Electric Light Company.
Box
270
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Fo-Gi",
1914-1916
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Greenlaw Lumber Company.
Box
271
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Joh",
1914
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
272
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "K-L",
1914
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
273
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Sa-Se",
1914
Box
274
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Sh-So",
1914
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
275
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Sp-Sy",
1914
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
276
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "T-V",
1914
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
277
Correspondence: Miscellaneous,
1914
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Flagstaff Electric Light Company.
Box
278
Correspondence: Miscellaneous,
Jan-Jun 1914
California Pine Box and Lumber Company; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
279
Correspondence: Miscellaneous,
Jul-Dec 1914
California Pine Box and Lumber Company; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
280
Correspondence: Miscellaneous,
1914
California Sugar and White Pine Company; Arizona Lumber and Timber
Company.
Box
281
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "A",
1915
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Greenlaw Lumber Company.
Box
282
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "A",
1915
Arizona Eastern Railroad and Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company;
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Greenlaw Lumber Company.
Box
283
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Beu-Cam",
1915
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
284
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "C",
1915
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
285
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "D",
1915
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
286
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "F",
1915
Box
287
Correspondence: Miscellaneous,
1914
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. Includes "Woman's Suffrage Speech" to
United States Senate by Henry F. Ashurst, as well as Ashurst
correspondence.
Box
288
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "J",
1915
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
289
Correspondence from John A. Johnson,
1915
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
290
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "P",
1915
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
291
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "R",
1915
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
292
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Sa-Sn",
1915
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
293
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "U-V",
1915
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
294
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "W-Z",
1915
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
295
Correspondence: Miscellaneous,
1915
California Sugar and White Pine Company; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
296
Correspondence: Miscellaneous,
1915
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
297
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "B",
1916
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
298
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "A",
1916
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
299
Correspondence: Miscellaneous,
1916
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Arizona Lumber and Timber
Company.
Box
300
Correspondence: Miscellaneous,
May-Aug 1916
California Sugar and White Pine Company; Arizona Lumber and Timber
Company.
Box
301
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "El-Gr",
1916
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
302
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Gl-Go",
1916
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
303
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "L-Ma",
1916
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
304
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Mc-Ma",
1916
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
305
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "P-Q",
1916
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
306
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Fa-Fi",
1915
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Greenlaw Lumber Company.
Box
307
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Sa-Se",
1916
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
308
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Sh-Sp",
1916
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
309
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "A-Ba",
1917
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
310
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "St-Sy",
1916
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
311
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Be-Cam",
1917
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
312
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "W-Z",
1916
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
313
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Tarr and McComb Inc.",
1914-1916
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
314-316
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "C",
1917
California Sugar and White Pine Company; California Pine Box and Lumber
Company; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
317
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "D-E",
1917
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
318-320
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "G-L",
1917
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
321-323
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "M-Po",
ca. 1917
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. Hand written job applications and company
department correspondence.
Box
324-326
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Pr-V",
1917
United Verde Copper Company; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
327-329
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "W-Z" (1917), and "Bi-Cal" (1918),
1917-1918
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; California Pine Box and Lumber Company;
Louis Wuichet (1917); California Sugar and White Pine Company (1918).
Box
330
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "Can-D",
1918
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
331-333
Correspondence: Miscellaneous "E-K",
1918
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; company department correspondence.
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. 8 letter books.
Box
361
Correspondence: Outgoing,
Sep 2, 1902-Jul 5,
1904
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. 8 letter books.
Box
362
Correspondence: Outgoing,
Jul 5, 1904-Apr 3,
1906
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. 8 letter books.
Box
363
Correspondence: Outgoing,
Jun 11, 1906-Mar 9,
1907
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. 3 letter books.
Box
364
Correspondence: Outgoing,
Mar 11, 1907-May 14,
1908
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. 8 letter books.
Box
365
Correspondence: Outgoing,
May 15, 1909-Aug 5,
1911
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. 8 letter books.
Box
366
Correspondence: Outgoing,
Aug 7, 1911-Feb 26,
1912
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. 2 letter books.
Box
367
Correspondence: Outgoing,
Feb 22, 1912-Mar 12, 1914
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. 8 letter books.
Box
369
Correspondence "A-E" [Fire damage],
1920
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
370
Correspondence "F-J" [Fire damage],
1920
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Johnson and Koch.
Box
371
Correspondence A-F",
1921
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; J.B.F. Davis and Son.
Box
372
Correspondence "G-Mc",
1921
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. Johnson and Koch
Box
373
Correspondence "W",
1921
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Louis Wuichet.
Box
374
Correspondence "Ma-V",
1921
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
375
Correspondence "Wuichet-Z",
1921
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
376
Correspondence "A-E",
1922
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; J.B.F. Davis and Son.
Box
377
Correspondence "F-H",
1922
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
378
Correspondence "T-Z",
1922
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Louis Wuichet.
Box
379
Correspondence: Company departments,
1922
Department correspondence and Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
380
Correspondence "I-L",
1923
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Johnson and Koch.
Box
381
Correspondence "Wuichet-Z",
1923
Department correspondence and Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
382
Correspondence "Mc-Ry",
1923
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
383
Correspondence "Wuichet-Z",
1924
Department correspondence and Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
384
Correspondence "S-Wuichet",
1923
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
385
Correspondence "Johnson and Koch-P",
1924
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
386
Correspondence "Q-Wuichet",
1924
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
387
Correspondence "A-F",
1925
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; J.B.F. Davis and Son.
Box
388
Correspondence "G-P",
1925
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Johnson and Koch.
Box
389
Correspondence "Q-Wuichet",
1925
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
390
Correspondence "X-Z",
1925
Department correspondence including file on Flagstaff water supply (1924-1925)
and precinct voter lists.
Box
391
Correspondence "A-E",
1926
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; J.B.F. Davis and Son.
Box
392
Correspondence "F-H",
1926
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
393
Correspondence "I-P",
1926
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; John A. Johnson Lumber Company.
Box
394
Correspondence "Q-Wuichet",
1926
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
395
Correspondence: Company departments,
1926
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and department correspondence.
Box
396
Correspondence "A-F",
1927
Closed letter files; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; J.B.F. Davis and Son.
Box
397
Correspondence "G-R",
1927
Closed letter files; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; John A. Johnson Lumber
Company.
Box
398
Correspondence "S-Z",
1927
Closed letter files; Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Louis Wuichet; company
departments.
Box
399
Correspondence "A-I",
1928
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
400
Correspondence "John A. Johnson-P",
1928
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
401
Correspondence "R-Z",
1928
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Louis Wuichet.
Box
402
Correspondence "A-I",
1929
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; J.B.F. Davis and Son.
Box
403
Correspondence "J-Wo",
1929
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; John A. Johnson Lumber Company.
Box
404
Correspondence "Wuichet-Z",
1929
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and department correspondence.
Box
405
Correspondence "A-L",
1930
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; John A. Johnson Lumber Company.
Box
406
Correspondence "Mc-Z",
1930
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Louis Wuichet.
Box
407
Correspondence "A-John A. Johnson",
1931
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
408
Correspondence "K-Z",
1931
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Louis Wuichet; department correspondence.
Box
409
Correspondence "A-Pr",
1932
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; John A. Johnson Lumber Company.
Box
410
Correspondence "R-Wuichet",
1932
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
411
Correspondence "Wuichet-Z",
1932
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
412
Correspondence "A-M",
1933
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; John A. Johnson Lumber Company. Blueprint
layout of Arizona Lumber and Timber Company insured under Guardian Western
Insurance Agency.
Box
413
Correspondence "N-S",
1933
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Louis Wuichet.
Box
414
Correspondence "T-Z",
1933
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
415
Correspondence "A-O",
1934
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
416
Correspondence "P-Z",
1934
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Western Pine Association; Louis Wuichet.
Box
417
Correspondence "A-M",
1935
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; John A. Johnson Lumber Company.
Box
418
Correspondence "N-Z",
1935
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Western Pine Association.
Box
419
Correspondence "A-L",
1936
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; John A. Johnson Lumber Company.
Box
420
Correspondence "Mc-Y",
1936
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and department correspondence.
Box
421
Correspondence "A-Q",
1937
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; John A. Johnson Lumber Company.
Box
422
Correspondence "R-S",
1937
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
423
Correspondence "T-Y",
1937
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
424
Correspondence "A-I",
1938
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
425
Correspondence "Johnson-Z",
1938
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
426
Correspondence "R-Ta",
1939
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
427
Correspondence "A-P",
1939
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; John A. Johnson Lumber Company.
Box
428
Correspondence "Tax-Y",
1939
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
429
Correspondence "A-M",
1940
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
430
Correspondence "N-S",
1940
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
431
Correspondence "T-Z",
1940
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
432
Correspondence "A-Z",
1941-1943
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company; Annual Meeting Notices (1935).
Box
433
Correspondence "A-Z",
1944
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. War bond drive correspondence.
Box
434
Correspondence "A-Z" (1945), and "A-Q" (1946),
1945-1946
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. Includes Flagstaff Community Hotel papers
and daily reports.
Box
435
Correspondence "R-Z" (1946), and "A-Z" (1947),
1946-1947
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. Includes Flagstaff Community Hotel papers
and daily reports.
Box
436
Correspondence "A-L",
1947
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
437
Correspondence: Telegrams (outgoing),
Nov 15, 1888-Jun 25,
1907
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. 3 letter books.
Riordan Mercantile Company. Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
442
Correspondence: Telegrams,
1895-1896
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
443
Correspondence: Telegrams,
1897-1898
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
896
Correspondence, Business,
1892
Riordan Mercantile Company.
Box
518
Correspondence "E-F",
1891-1894
Riordan Mercantile Company. Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
519
Correspondence "G-H",
1891-1894
Riordan Mercantile Company. Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Box
107
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: miscellaneous correspondence,
1887-1914
Box
820
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and Greenlaw Lumber Company:
Correspondence,
1897
Business correspondence of Michael J. Riordan, Timothy A. Riordan and F.W.
Sisson. Page (i.e.: correspondence) #65 of the letter book announces the stock
buy-out of Greenlaw Lumber Company by Michael J. Riordan, Timothy A. Riordan
and Fredrick W. Sisson (Greenlaw Lumber Company secretary was C.E. Hackett).
325 linear feet. Includes the billing records; accounts paid; pay roll records;
bank statements; log tallies, including township and range locators; inventories;
lumber mill board foot tallies; cancelled checks, Invoice Book, and general
accounting records of the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and including some
records of subsidiary companies. [Note: The Riordan Mercantile Company ("company
store" of the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company) records are considered part of
the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company records, and are therefore not listed with
"subsidiary" company records.]
(The subsidiary companies include the Greenlaw Lumber Company; the Howard Sheep
Company; the Spangler Sheep Company; Flagstaff Oil Company; the McKay Cattle
Company; the Black Cattle Company; Central Arizona Railway Company; and the
Flagstaff Electric Light Company. For a full description of these subsidiary
companies see Series 3 [Subsidiary Companies] of this guide.)
Ninety linear feet. Primarily billing records, receipts, cancelled checks and
check voucher statements. Mostly records of the Arizona Lumber and Timber
Company (some are from the Greenlaw Lumber Company: box #45. Also see: Series
3, Subsidiary Companies).
Ninety linear feet. Client accounts; log tally in mill; petty cash; account
book; notes and bills receivable and payable.
Box
1058
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and Ayer Lumber Company: Accounts
ledger,
1884-1889
Records include: Disbursements, lumber and merchandise sales.
Box
1170
Arizona Supply Company: General accounting Ledger,
1887-1889
Supplies, possibly some Ayer Lumber Company records.
Box
833
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Accounts ledger,
1887-1890
Box
908
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Account ledger,
1888-1889
Box
1169
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1889
Supplies, possibly some Ayer Lumber Company records.
Box
794
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Store merchandise sales,
ca. 1890-1891
Supplies, possibly some Ayer Lumber Company records.
Box
1182
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1895-1898
Records include: real estate, standing timber volume, sundry debtors,
equipment, pay roll, etc.
Box
1097
Riordan Mercantile Company/Arizona Lumber and Timber Company:
Accounting,
1889
Ledger of employee accounts balances with company store.
Box
1022
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Lumber Sales Distribution Book,
1891-1896
Shows types of lumber, volume of lumber and sales.
Box
1167
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1890
Shows standing timber count volume by area, etc.
Box
1098
Riordan Mercantile Company/Arizona Lumber and Timber Company:
Accounting,
1890-1891
Ledger of employee accounts balances with company store.
Box
1059
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Accounts book,
1891
Annual summary, disbursements of accounts, shipment records, lumber and
merchandise sales.
Box
1166
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1891
Shows standing timber count volume by area, etc.
Box
1099
Riordan Mercantile Company/Arizona Lumber and Timber Company:
Accounting,
1891-1893
Ledger of employee accounts balances with company store.
Box
1165
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1892.
Shows standing timber count volume by area, etc.
Box
1060
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Accounts book,
1892
Disbursements of accounts, shipment records, lumber and merchandise
sales.
Box
1100
Riordan Mercantile Company/Arizona Lumber and Timber Company:
Accounting,
1893-1896
Ledger of employee accounts balances with company store.
Box
1061
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Accounts book,
1894
Disbursements of accounts, shipment records, lumber and merchandise
sales.
Box
1062
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Accounts book,
1895
Disbursements of accounts, shipment records, lumber and merchandise
sales.
Box
1101
Riordan Mercantile Company/Arizona Lumber and Timber Company:
Accounting,
1896-1898
Ledger of employee accounts balances with company store.
Box
1023
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Lumber Sales Distribution Book,
1897-1901
Shows types of lumber, volume of lumber and sales.
Box
832
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Account Book,
1890-1892
Box
1175
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1893
Records include: real estate, standing timber volume, sundry debtors,
equipment, pay roll, etc.
Box
1176
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1894
Records include: real estate, standing timber volume, sundry debtors,
equipment, pay roll, etc.
Box
1173
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1895
Records include: real estate, standing timber volume, sundry debtors,
equipment, pay roll, etc.
Box
1172
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1896-1897
Records include: real estate, standing timber volume, sundry debtors,
equipment, pay roll, etc.
Box
855
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General Accounts, shipping,
etc.,
1897-1899
Box
1178
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1898-1899
Records include: real estate, standing timber volume, sundry debtors,
equipment, pay roll, etc.
Box
1067
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Account recapitulations,
1898-1899
Box
856
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General Accounts, shipping,
lumber tallies, etc.,
1899-1900
Box
1171
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1900-1901
Box
1068
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Account recapitulations,
1900-1901
Box
857
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company (Mill #1; Greenlaw Lumber
Company): General Accounts, shipping, etc.,
1901
Box
834
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General Accounts ledger,
1897-1901
Box
1177
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1902-1903
Records include: real estate, standing timber volume, sundry debtors,
equipment, pay roll, etc.
Box
1085
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Accounting,
1902-1905
Distribution of accounts.
Box
1069
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General Accounting,
1902-1907
Box
1174
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1904-1905
Records include: real estate, standing timber volume, sundry debtors,
equipment, pay roll, etc.
Box
1181
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1906-1907
Records include: real estate, standing timber volume, sundry debtors,
equipment, pay roll, etc.
Box
1180
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1908-1909
Records include: real estate, standing timber volume, sundry debtors,
equipment, pay roll, etc.
Box
1179
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: General accounting Ledger,
1910-1911
Records include: real estate, standing timber volume, sundry debtors,
equipment, pay roll, etc.
Box
127
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Client accounts,
1897-1899
Accounts in the names of: Theo Gaston, Jack Herrington, R Heckathorn, H.H.
Hoxworth, and R.M. Johnson.
Box
128
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Client accounts,
1897-1899
Accounts in the names of: Johnson and Pederson, D.M Kinney, Leely and
Company, Mahaffey and Erwin, W.P. McKenzie, Perigo and Blackburn, Prutyman
and Son.
Box
129
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Client accounts,
1897-1899
Accounts in the names of: Rich Brothers, Saginaw Lumber Company, Chas.
Smith Sundry Tie Makers, and F.S. Taylor.
Three linear feet. Bank statements, cancelled checks, etc.
Box
515
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Bank account balance sheets and
cancelled checks,
1904-Jan 1906
First National Bank, Los Angeles
Box
776
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Bank Receipts,
1907-1908
Box
516
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: bank statements, cancelled
checks,
1904-1906
Box
517
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Bank account balance sheets and
canceled checks,
Feb 1902-1909 Feb [incomplete] and Jun 1913
National Bank, Albuquerque
Box
531-573
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: bank statements, cancelled
checks,
1902-1926
Bank Statements and cancelled checks from the Arizona Central Bank; the
First National Bank of Flagstaff; First National Bank of Albuquerque (N.M.);
and the Mesa City Bank (Phoenix, Arizona area].
Box
577-580
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: bank statements, cancelled
checks,
1907-1926
Bank Statements and cancelled from the Arizona Central Bank; the First
National Bank of Flagstaff; and the Mesa City Bank.
Box
720
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: California Bank Statements,
May 1940-Jun 1942
Bank Statements from the California Bank.
Box
721
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: California Bank statements; Bank
of Douglas bank statements,
1942-1950
California Bank statements, July 1942-Dec 1950; Bank of Douglas bank
statements Mar, 1948-Dec 1950.
Box
722
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Bank of Arizona statements,
1946-1950
Box
636-716
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: cancelled check stubs,
ca.
1900-1911
Cancelled check stubs in bound books, chronological order.
Box
780
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: blank check book,
ca.
1900
Box
781
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: blank check book,
ca.
1900
Box
1038
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Check Register Ledger,
1917
Box
1082
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Check Register Ledger,
1921-1926
1082
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Check Register Ledger,
1927-1932
Box
1083
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Check Register Ledger,
1933
Two linear feet. Lumber Contracts, company proxies, etc.
Box
728
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Lumber purchases and contracts,
1913-1926
Lumber/Timber cutting contracts, including township and range of area to be
cut; also includes Scale Reports.
Box
737
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Lumber price lists,
1917-1931
Box
732
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Lumber contracts/agreements,
ca. 1916-1923
Includes: Lumber/Timber cutting contracts, including township and range of
area to be cut; maps and blueprints; cost estimates; shipping costs and
weight records for lumber.
Thirty linear feet. Contains business records from Arizona Lumber and Timber
Company subsidiary enterprises including: Greenlaw Lumber Company; Ayer Lumber
Company; Howard Sheep Company; Spangler Sheep Company; McKay Cattle Company; and
Black Cattle Company.
The history of the Riordan financial holdings begins when Denis M. Riordan
(initially the manager of Ayer Lumber Company) buys out the original owner (in
1893) and renames the company the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. In turn, the
Greenlaw Lumber Company was ostensibly an independent venture. However, Michael J.
Riordan is listed as secretary of the company twelve years prior to the Arizona
Lumber and Timber Company officially buying out Greenlaw's interest in the company
(Riordans had in fact bought controlling interest in 1897). The McKay Cattle
Company, Howard Sheep Company, and Black Sheep Company records all use Arizona
Lumber and Timber Company envelopes for their respective financial records. It
there seems likely that most of the subsidiary companies, and the resulting
records, were always part and parcel of the Riordan family financial holdings.
Certain companies, such as Flagstaff Electric Light Company, were initiated by
Riordans along with other local capitalists, and subsequently bought out by the
Riordans.
The records herein include: correspondence (small amount); monthly statements;
paid bills and receipts; check vouchers; legal records; pay roll records, time
slips; log tallies in the mill; inventories; sawmill reports; filled orders and
shipment records of the various Riordan family ventures.
Three linear feet. Financial and legal records of the Ayer Lumber Company
including: Ayer Lumber Company financial ledgers, and legal records of the
United States Government Land Office lawsuit against Ayer Lumber Company for
illegal trespass and logging.
Monthly statements, Timber cut records, booking sheets, shipment logs,
purchase and sales invoices between Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and
Greenlaw Ayer Lumber Company financial ledgers, receipts from and bills paid
to Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, Lumber contracts/agreements,
correspondence regarding timber sales, and legal records of the United
States Government Land Office lawsuit against Ayer Lumber Company for
(alleged) illegal trespass and logging.
Box
1058
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and Ayer Lumber Company: Accounts
ledger,
1884-1889
Records include: Disbursements, lumber and merchandise sales.
Ninety linear feet. Financial records of the Greenlaw Lumber Company
including: billing records; receipts; camp pay roll orders; booking sheets;
Journal Entries/Check Vouchers; cancelled checks; shipment logs; balance
sheets; purchase and sales invoices between Arizona Lumber and Timber Company
and Greenlaw; inventories and shipment statements.
(Note: Greenlaw Lumber Company and Arizona Lumber and Timber Company labels are
often found on the same documents. This is indicative of their longstanding
business tie, as well as the fact that Greenlaw Lumber Company continued to
operate as a company after it became part of the Riordan Family holdings.)
Box
80
Greenlaw Lumber Company minutes of meetings and incorporation
papers,
1896-1923
Box
820
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and Greenlaw Lumber Company:
Correspondence,
1896-1898
Business correspondence of Michael J. Riordan, Timothy A. Riordan and F.W.
Sisson. Page (i.e.: correspondence) #65 of the letter book announces the
stock buy-out of Greenlaw Lumber Company by Michael J. Riordan, Timothy A.
Riordan and Fredrick W. Sisson (Greenlaw Lumber Company secretary was C.E.
Hackett).
Box
81
Greenlaw Lumber Company Journal Entries,
1897-1898
Log reports including township/range of cuts (log tallies).
Box
72
Monthly statements, booking sheets, shipment logs, purchase and
sales invoices between Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and Greenlaw Lumber
Company,
1907-1921
Box
771-A
Greenlaw Lumber Company: Pay Roll Ledger,
1907-1910
Monthly statements, booking sheets, shipment logs, purchase and
sales invoices between Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and Greenlaw Lumber
Company,
1907-1921
Six linear feet. Financial records of the Howard Sheep Company including:
billing records; receipts; camp pay roll orders; booking sheets; Journal
Entries/Check Vouchers; cancelled checks; shipment logs; balance sheets;
purchase and sales invoices between Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and
Greenlaw; inventories and shipment statements.
Box
117
Howard Sheep Company journal entries,
1893-1897
Box
118
Howard Sheep Company journal entries,
1894-1895
Box
119
Howard Sheep Company general financial records,
1894-1896
Box
120
Howard Sheep Company journal entries,
1898-1899
Box
115
Howard Sheep Company monthly statements, cash slips,
1906-1908
Box
116
Howard Sheep Company cash vouchers,
1910-1915
Box
112
Howard Sheep Company paid bills and receipts,
1917
Box
110
Howard Sheep Company Monthly statements,
1915-1920
One document box. Includes photocopies of the community hotel project
photographs; blueprints of basement and first floor; correspondence regarding
the community hotel project; publicity and promotion; promotional materials
from the Hockenbury Corporation, which was hired to run the project.
Box
736
Flagstaff Community Hotel records,
1926
Includes photocopies of the community hotel project photographs; blueprints
of basement and first floor; correspondence regarding the community hotel
project; publicity and promotion; promotional materials from the Hockenbury
Corporation, which was hired to run the project.
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Inventory book,
1888-1889 and 1904
Title of ledger reads "Keep in safe."
Box
1168
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Index Ledgers,
ca.
1895
Index book to company ledger; see ledger #1169 of this collection.
Box
1081
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Record of Insurance,
1908-1916
Insurance register.
Box
1073
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Record of Insurance,
1913
Pacific Insurance Department, San Francisco, California, Insurance
register.
Box
574
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Patrol Check Dials,
ca.
1917
These are time stamped paper disks; probably used to record security
night-watch crew grounds-patrol schedule.
Box
733
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Miscellaneous records from Mill #2
and #3,
Jul 1888-Nov 1889
Invoices, general company financial records, correspondence.
Box
105
Greenlaw Lumber Company "miscellaneous",
1918-1923
Box
106
I.B. Koch: ephemera from business files,
ca. 1926
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company brochure; Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce
brochure, "New Half Million Dollar Community Water System"; Program, "Souvenir
of the Opening of the Hotel Monte Vista"; train and boat schedules.
Box
1076
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company: Store Department Charges,
1931