Pioneers in Pine

A boy who ran logs in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, before the Civil War, became the man who saw possibilities in Arkansas' pine forests. Thus, before this State was half way towards its Centennial, destiny was directing the ultimate formation of what became the Southern Lumber Company, of Warren, Arkansas.

James E. Lindsay was that boy and man...exemplar of those sturdy Americans who gave this nation its strength. He attracted to himself others of his kind, comprising the group out of which finally evolved the Southern Lumber Company of today. These were such stalwarts of the early industry as Charles R. Ainsworth of Moline, Ill.; Frederick Weyerhaeuser of the Northwest's lumber empire; F.C.A. Denkmann of Rock Island, Ill.; John B. Phelps and Fred Wyman, of Davenport, Ia.; and others.

From erection of the original mill at Warren in 1902, operations have continued without interruption up to the present. Within that period a second generation has sprung from those pioneers to continue the fathers' original participation as officers and directors, namely: Fred Wyman, President; M.N. Richardson, Vice-President; George F. Lindsay, Sec'y-Treas., C.M. Cochrane, Asst. Sec'y-Treas., and Edwin B. Lindsay, Director. Associated with the company in the local conduct of its operations, are other names, perhaps even more familiar to Arkansas, such as F.E. Weyerhaeuser, N.H. Clapp, Jr., John L. Clegg, O.O. Axley, J.E. Hurley, and Z.K. Thomas, the company's present general manager.

Thus, the foresight and faith of James Lindsay has attained successful fruition...through converting Arkansas timber into commodities of value, and in providing a substantial section of Arkansas labor with the value of its hire.

Southern Lumber Co.
Warren, Arkansas

Affiliated with the Weyerhaeuser Lumber Interests
of St. Paul, Minnesota