Re: NNG - Flagstaff Lumber Company

Thanks for posting the photo John.

A bio from the Arizona Archives Online:
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.

Earlier history from the historic places document:
Three lumber companies and their successors built and operated these railroads: the Arizona Lumber Company (which became the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and bought the Greenlaw Lumber Company), the Saginaw Lumber Company (reorganized as the Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company), and the Flagstaff Lumber Manufacturing Company (which became the Flagstaff Lumber Company and was taken over by the W. M. Cady Lumber Company and Southwest Lumber Mills).

Dave



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