Charles Dranguet Collection

Box 1 

 

Folder 1

1. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1956, Monthly Statement Book
2. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1955, Monthly Statement Book
3. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1953, Monthly Statement Book
4. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1959, Monthly Statement Book
5. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1958, Monthly Statement Book

Folder 2

1. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1945, Monthly Statement Book
2. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1951, Monthly Statement Book
3. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1950, Monthly Statement Book
4. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1957, Monthly Statement Book

Folder 3

1. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1941, Monthly Statement Book
2. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1948, Monthly Statement Book
3. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1947, Monthly Statement Book
4. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1946, Monthly Statement Book

Folder 4

1. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1938, Monthly Statement Book
2. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1937, Monthly Statement Book
3. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1943, Monthly Statement Book
4. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1942, Monthly Statement Book

Folder 5

1. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1945, Monthly Statement Book
2. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1936, Monthly Statement Book
3. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1940, Monthly Statement Book
4. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1939, Monthly Statement Book

Folder 6      Insect Damaged

1. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1944, Monthly Statement Book
2. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1949, Monthly Statement Book
3. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Inc. Ponchatoula, Louisiana: December 1952, Monthly Statement Book

Folder 7       Letters

1. Jan. 16, 1950/ Regarding map of William T. Joyce land
2. Jan. 24, 1950/ regarding Livingston Parish lease
3. Receipt for registered vehicle
4. Receipt for insured parcel
5. Feb. 7, 1950/ Western Union telegram regarding black automobile
6. Feb. 2, 1950/ Authorizing purchases of one Ross Lift Truck and Worthington Air Compressor
7. Feb. 10, 1950/ Minutes of meeting of the board 1950
8. Feb. 10, 1950/ Regarding purchase of black model 61-69 Cadillac sedan for fleet use
9. Feb. 9, 1950/ regarding choice of Black automobile
10. Feb. 14, 1950/ regarding Tremont Lumber company
11. Feb. 14, 1950/ regarding minutes of the board meeting 1949 and 1950 with acknowledgment
12. Feb. 10, 1950/ regarding proposed leases to Progress Petroleum Inc.
13. Feb. 13, 1950/ regarding Livingston parish lease
14. Je. 31, 1950/ regarding 320 acre lease n Livingston parish
15. Feb. 14, 1950/ regarding oil, gas, and mineral lease
16. Feb. 17, 1950/ Minutes of the meeting of the board 1950, and 1949
17. Feb. 20, 1950/ Regarding denial of Manufacturers and Employers liability coverage
18. Feb. 24, 1950/ Minutes of the special meeting of the board, 1950
19. Feb. 27, 1950/ Letter regarding construction of a small kin
20. Feb. 20, 1950/ Letter regarding Nicholas Cicet
21. Feb. 20, 1950/ Regarding liability insurance
22. Feb. 27, 1950/ Regarding Compensation insurance
23. March. 3, 1950/ Referencing one share of Hammond Golf Club stock, issued to John P. Gregg
24. Jan. 23, 1950/ E.O. Anderson to C.H. Lindsay regarding insurance
25. March. 7, 1950/ Call for board of directors meeting
26. March. 10, 1950/ Accidental death of Steve Lockett, tong hooker in Cypress Swamp
27. March. 22, 1950/ Letter to Mr. E.O. Anderson from LA. Cyp. Regarding accounting
28. Oct. 21, 1947/ Letter from Roscoe Clark regarding Miss Oneida M. Ward
29. July. 16, 1947/ Letter from Roscoe Clark on Bert E. Cook Lumber Co. letterhead
30. Sept. 24, 1947/ Letter from La. Cyp. To Roscoe Clark regarding Byrkit Cath
31. Louisiana Manufacturer’s Association Bulletin, No. WR-38-5, March 31, 1959
32. Louisiana Manufacturer’s Association Bulletin, No. WR-38-4, March 30, 1959
33. Louisiana Manufacturer’s Association Bulletin, No. IR-38-3, March 27, 1959

Folder 8

1. August 2, 1949/ unable to deliver 2” grade
2. March 1, 1949/ inventory
3. March 8, 1949/ Letter regarding march inventory
4. March 29, 1949/ regarding prices on cemetary boxes, seed flats, and bed flats
5. 1949/ Sales estimate for 3 months
6. August 1, 1949/ Regarding oak flooring demand increase
7. September 3, 1949/ Prices on Cypress paneling
8. September 1, 1949/ Dissatisfied customer complains of too much water in his cypress
9. List of dealers in LA. 
10. September 28, 1949/ returned oak flooring
11. October 25, 1949/ several pages regarding sales prices and sales percentages 
12. January 7, 1950/ inventory list and proposed sales
13. January 7, 1949/ oil well in Livingston Parish 
14. Jan. 4, 1949/ making strawberry crates
15. Jan. 4/ rent houses rent to increase
16. December 31, 1948/ opening of Tremont mill
17. Feb. 1, 1949/ Sleet and ice force mill closure
18. Feb. 28, 1949/ Pine and hardwood price estimates 
19. Feb. 8, 1949/ Complaints about a lack of Cypress production compared to earlier years
20. Feb. 11, 1949/ Reference to jan. profit statement
21. Feb. 24, 1949/ not to sell every dried cypress
22. Mar. 2, 1949? advisory not to lease land to Cosner and Sharp for oil
23. Mar 3, 1949/ reference to several tracts of cypress
24. Mar. 14, 1949/ note about Colonel Bassick
25. Mar. 25, 1949/ high water content
26. Mar. 25, 1949/ Considering purchasing a 3rd kiln
27. Mar. 31, 1949/ kiln purchase authorization
28. April 6, 1949/ high water content
29. April 7, 1949/ work on water tanks
30. June 24, 1949, offer to buy cypress and gum
31. July 7, 1949/ Planes for Tremont Lumber mill
32. August 9, 1949/ Answer to bad housekeeping and fire reported
33. August 19, 1949/ BlueCross plan for employees
34. August 23, 1949/ postponing of BlueCross plan
35. Sept. 16, 49/ Dr. Scott looking into BlueCross proposal
36. Oct. 27, 1949/ reference to boat construction 
37. July 3, 1949/ Cut Everything
38. Feb. 28, 1949/ regarding timber in South Tangipahoa Parish
39. Oct. 21, 1949/ regarding quality of timber on Joyce and Ferwood property.

Folder 9

1. Lease on acres of LA. CYP. Land allowed to expire
2. Sept. 1944/ Letter from a west coast lumber yard about the cancellation of orders following end of World War II, but the anticipated increase in home construction
3. Oct. 7, 1944/ inefficient labor in pine logging, cypress inventory and desire to cut old growth cypress
4. High water content in swamp preventing equipment form entering
5. Sept. 29 1944/ hopes that Carter will be elected assessor
6. Sept. 8 1944/ Prediction that Tremont Lumber would last 4 years
7. Sept. 8, 1944/ cost of cutting pine too high
8. Sept. 5, 1944/ selling price of yellow pine lumber 1907-1943
9. August 24 1944/ reluctance to disclose financial information
10. August 22 1944/ Miss Edna Ward fired
11. August 21, 1944/ labor shortage may begin to ease
12. August 8 1944/ most L.C. lumber frozen for use
13. August 8 1944/ Commission establishing C.H. Lindsay as a Col. On Governor Jimmy Davis’ staff
14. August 2, 1944/ Gov. Jimmy Davis offers assurances that the new tax assessor will not be a problem
15. April 29, 1944/ Office employees should have a vacation
16. May 20, 1944/ 3-7 men short in strawberry season
17. June 1, 1944/ J.W. Reeves, a “Commercial Teacher from Southeastern College” hired for 30 day
18. June 5, 1944/ colored labor is getting paid more in New Orleans causing a labor shortage
19. June 5, 1944/ heavy in pine in summer and cypress in winter
20. June 14, 1944/ board will give job priority to the lumber industry
21. July 3, 1944/ raises and promotions
22. July 10, 1944/ Concern over the tax assessor
23. July 10, 1944/ can not find pine timber cutters
24. Oct. 9, 1944/ offer of $28 per acre for 92 acres of land and timber
25. Oct. 11, 1944/ dry oil well
26. March 23, 1944/ increase in salary
27. March 31, 1944/ must increase pine logging
28. April 5, 1944/ reluctant to share operating costs
29. April 3, 1944/ plans for operating more heavily in pine timber
30. April 3, 1944/ Addressed to John Gregg of the Tremont Lumber Co.

Folder 10

1. Dec. 20 1952/ 20, 000 ft pine
2. Dec. 13 1952/ 1000ft Cypress inventory 
3. Nov. 29 1952/ rain has minimized
4. Nov. 3 1952/ fire conditions 
5. Oct. 24 1952/ Dry conditions are allowing cypress to dry too quickly
6. Oct. 17  1952/ heavy pine production due to dry weather
7. Oct 10, 1952/ 18 in up pine to be cut 
8. Oct. 3 1952/ mahogany logs
9. Sept. 26 1952/ Mahogany unloaded in pond
10. Sept. 19, 1952/ LA. CYP. To exchange pulpwood for timber
11. Sept. 12, 1952/ mahogany production
12. Sept. 5, 1952/ cypress shipments
13. August 30, 1952/ High water threat and cypress shipments
14. August 21, 1952/ pine and cypress logging operation
15. August 15, 1952/ cutting equally pine, cypress, mahogany, and hardwood
16. August 8, 1952/ Referencing different varieties of wood statistics
17. August 2, 1952/ Average production per hour
18. July 25, 1952/ “S” irons placed at ends of mahogany logs
19. July 18, 1952/ water halted cypress operations
20. July 10, 1952/ installing new carriage
21. July 3, 1952/ production numbers for June
22. June 27, 1952/ “will work 4 ten hour days”
23. June 20, 1952/ $100,000 minimum gross cypress sales
24. June 13, 1952/ Cypress logging
25. June 6, 1952/ Cypress logging will operate on regular scheduled hours
26. May 31, 1952/ titles cleared
27. May 16, 1952/ Cypress logging operation on 5 day week – 65 men
28. May 19, 1952/ Cypress crew reduced to 66 men
29. May 3, 1952/ pine, oak, cypress production figures
30. April 25, 1952/ reduce production of cypress to lengthen the life of the operation
31. April 17, 1952/ boat lumber in high demand but limited supply
32. April 5, 1952/ No high water content in swamp
33. Mar. 28, 1952/ attempting to clear title
34. Mar. 21, 1952/ bid contract accepted
35. March 14, 1952/ no high water threat in cypress swamp
36. March 7, 1952/ pine logging to begin on Gaylord lands
37. February 29, 1952/ Started producing pine in 1943
38. February 22, 1952/ high water up to the track in cypress swamp
39. February 1, 1952/ excess of gum and needing to find a market for it
40. January 25, 1952/ plan to cut more pine and mahogany and limit cypress production, cypress inventory at end of 1950.

Folder 11

1. January 21, 1952/ Short supply of higher grade lumber and reference to tobacco dryer
2. December 29, 1951/ not to load any more green lumber
3. Jan. 22, 1952/ reference to wide timber stock available
4. Jan. 14, 1952/ LCLC is getting into mahogany 
5. May 13, 1952/ Chicago lumber mill wants pecky cypress
6. May 20, 1952/ price on cypress roofing
7. June 30, 1952/ exportation of 600 pieces to Cuba for tower home roofing
8. July 30, 1952/ kiln dried cypress order
9. Sept. 10, 1952/ very little #2 common board has gone through kilns
10. August 29, 1952/ list of mahogany on hand
11. Oct. 1, 1952/ cypress for navy to use as a buoy
12. November 4, 1952/ no #2 common board available, must cut more cypress
13. Shipment lists
14. Image of a Louisiana Cypress Company sawmill in the cypress swamp
15. Image: “End of the trade, Last cypress logs cut by the Louisiana Cypress company in 1956”
16. Staff image of the Louisiana Cypress Company in their main office

Folder 12

1. Louisiana Cypress Company Image
2. Miscellaneous spreadsheets

1947

1. Dec. 18/ locomotive #3 removed from service
2. Jan. 2/ increase lumber prices
3. Dec. 29/ pine lumber is being handled at a lesser cost than cypress
4. Dec. 23/ map colored each year to indicate cut over area in cypress swamp
5. November 7/ Combination Loader Ditcher and Pile Driver eliminated from Insurance policy
6. Nov. 1/ lists of pine and hardwood lost in hurricane of 1947
7. Oct. 31/ ref. to E.L. Heitert, sales manager no longer employed 
8. Oct. 31/ can not furnish gum since cypress swamp gum is too low
9. Oct. 23/ from Booth Furniture Company of Shreveport interested in gum lumber
10. Sept. 24/ list of damage by hurricane of Sept. 19, 1947
11. July 17/ surfacing Piney Woods road with blacktop
12. July 12/ settling of differences
13. June 9/ compilation of lumber sales
14. June 27/ statement of gross profit
15. June 2/ will change method of grading lumber
16. March 26/ ref. to assessment sheets
17. Jan. 11/ ref. to raise in prices at the Joyce yards
18. Jan. 3/ claim for Ellis Heisser for personal injury
19. Jan. 2/ property acquisition
20. April 15/ Joseph R. sellers responsible for retail yard

Executive meeting 1959-60

1. June 11, 1960/ dismantling old sawmill
2. Dec. 23, 1959/ plant to close at noon
3. Dec. 5, 1959/ Cypress sales and processing
4. Nov. 25, 1959/ plant will be closed from thanksgiving
5. Nov 12/ mill closed for Vet. Day holiday
6. Nov. 5, 1959/ Cypress sales for Oct. 
7. Oct. 10, 1959/ strike on the wharf in New Orleans has hurt sales
8. Oct. 3, 1959/ sold 18,000 ft of Cypress for week
9. Sept. 12, 1959/ mill closed for lumber day
10. May 30, 1959/ secured lumber by the causeway in St. John
11. May 9, 1959/ Pine sales for April 
12. April 18, 1959/ secured pine in Lacombe

Gaylord Container Corp Papers 1948-1950

1. Descriptions of Gaylord lands with maps that Louisiana Cypress wanted to bid on to cut pine, oak, and other mixed hardwoods. Bids not accepted by Gaylord. Livingston Parish and St. Hellena Parish