There are four letterpress copybooks in this sub-series. They contain over 2,700 numbered pages. An additional 700-page letterpress copybook covering disbursements for timber, flour, livestock, feed, bricks, paint, drugs, oysters, etc. for the mill, town, and company store from October 1904 to March 1905 is located in Box 26, Folders 8-18. Each page contains an impression of one or more documents. Many are difficult to read. Three of the books are unbound. The documents deal with the construction of the sawmill, the town, and the rail lines as well as personnel matters, purchase of equipment and goods, and the sale of wood products. Most of the letters were written by W.B. Arnold, John W. Chandler, F. Chester, A.W. Corkins, F.W.Scott, and P. Wilkins. Notes on the material prepared by a volunteer are in Box 6, Folder 17.

Copybook 1 (pages numbered 1 through 477, dating May to September 1904) contains a mix of letters and financial documents. Letters to C. D. Johnson, president of the Union Saw Mill, detail day-to-day activity (pages 183, 205-6, 210, 226, 234, 235, 247, 248, 257-8, 260, 271, 304-5, 381, 447, 448-9) and letters to the company’s law firm, Gaughan & Sifford of Camden, pose legal questions (pages 204, 207-9, 303, 323). Some letters deal with personnel matters. Letters on pages 260-269 mention that the Mexican workers quit. Letters on pages 394-404 say that production stopped at the mill when all the Black employees departed following intimidation “by parties posting threatening notices.” A letter on page 464 asks a recruiter to bring “as many colored laborers as possible.”

Copybook 2 (pages numbered 2 through 699, dating March to October 1905), contains letters, financial documents, and orders for timber products (mostly from the Frost-Trigg Lumber Company of St. Louis, Missouri). Letters to C. D. Johnson, president of the Union Saw Mill, detail day-to-day activity (pages 7, 30, 32, 33, 45, 55-6, 89, 118, 129, 142-6, 153, 156-7, 158, 182, 200-2, 255-7, 268, 270, 317, 328-9, 331, 332, 333-4, 335, 336, 351, 370-2, 379, 380-1, 417, 432, 447, 452-3, 457, 460-1, 487-8, 532-3, 540, 543, 547-8, 569, 575, 577, 593-4, 598, 661) and letters to the company’s law firm, Gaughan & Sifford of Camden pose legal questions (pages 231-3, 244, 377, 423, 458-9, 534, 658, 664). There are letters concerning the supply of coal from the Western Coal & Mining Company of Fort Smith (pages 419, 576, 580, 675). Page 440 has a letter for the Felsenthal Press announcing decisions made at a Union Saw Mill stockholders meeting. There are letters regarding the Union Saw Mill purchase of the Kinard Lumber Company of Delight, Arkansas (pages 450-1, 455, 460-1, 534, 584, 664, 668). A letter on pages 466-7 mentions three death claims in connection with the construction of the Little Rock & Monroe rail line. Letters mentioning Adolph and Ike Felsenthal’s Huttig Improvement Company include discussion of life in the area before the Union Saw Mill was built (pages 518, 540, 658).

Copybook 3 (pages numbered 99 through 697, dating March to July 1905), contains orders for lumber products, mostly from Frost-Trigg Lumber Company of St. Louis, Missouri. The orders list types of product, charges, rail routes, and destinations.

Copybook 4 (pages numbered 3 through 981, dating January to September 1907), contains vouchers drawn on The Third National Bank of St. Louis, Missouri for Union Saw Mill expenses.