Fordyce Lumber Company. Records, 1904, 1920-1962. 70 microfilm reels. Location: MSS.MF:F. Dr. John Wenzel Watzek, Charles Warner Gates, and Edward Savage Crossett founded the Fordyce Lumber Company at Fordyce, Dallas County, Arkansas in 1890. In the same year and as part of the same investment, the Fordyce & Princeton Railroad Company was organized and laid a track from the Cotton Belt Railroad System to the Fordyce mill one mile away. When the mill was opened the track was extended northward from the mill into the timber for a distance of 221 miles for the purpose of hauling logs. The Fordyce Lumber Company was acquired by Georgia-Pacific Corporation in 1963. Microfilm copies of land books, indexes to deeds, Fordyce Lumber Company general ledgers and journals, stockholders' journals and ledgers, plant ledgers, Fordyce & Princeton Railroad Company journals and ledgers, abstracts, stock certificates, tax receipts, minutes, stockholders' estates, C. W. Gates estate, forestry growth study, forestry inventory, Williams Plot, Stout Plot, and Crossett Opinion Research. Mss. 1864, 1895.