urn:taro:ttu.sw.00004 Double U Company: An Inventory of Its Records, 1854-1982 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Texas Tech University MS 41041 Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone: (806) 742-3749 Fax: (806) 742-0496 Webpage: http://swco.ttu.edu Contact Person: Reference Archivist
June 2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, September 2000. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:20:25 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00004 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Double U Company Records, 1854-1982 and undated Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, June 2000 Descriptive Summary Double U Company Double U Company Records, 1854-1982 and undated Records of the Double U Company, a land colonization company charted in 1907 by breakfast food magnate Charles William Post. S 272.3 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 52 boxes and 32 ledgers (68.0 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

The Double U Company was a land colonization company charted in 1907 by breakfast food magnate Charles William Post (1854-1914) of Battle Creek, Michigan. From 1906 to 1907, Post purchased over 200,000 acres of land in Garza, Lynn and Hockley counties of Texas, which included the Curry Comb Ranch, the OS Ranch, the Fountain G. Oxsheer Ranch, and a portion of John B. Slaughter's U Lazy S Ranch. Originally named Post City, the town of Post in Garza County began as a tent city in 1906, and by 1916, after an extensive real estate campaign, Post and the surrounding area contained approximately 3,000 inhabitants and 14 private corporations which together held over 1.2 million dollars in capital stock. The Double U Charter expired in 1957, and C. W. Post's heirs established the Post-Montgomery Ranch and the Double U Ranch, consisting of rangeland near the towns of Levelland, Tahoka and Post.

 Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, financial and legal material, land plats and building blueprints, and printed material pertaining to activities of the Double U Company and the Postex Cotton Mills in Post, Texas. The Postex Cotton Mills manufactured cloth materials from the cotton acquired from the local agricultural industries.

 Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Persons) Post, C. W. (Charles William), 1854-1914 Subjects (Organizations) Algerita Hotel (Post, Tex.) Double U Company Postum Company, inc. Postex Mill (Post, Tex.) Garza Land and Cattle Company (Garza County, Tex.) Places Double U Ranch (Tex.) Lynn County (Tex.)--History Garza County (Tex.)--History Hockley County (Tex.)--History Post-Montgomery Ranch (Tex.) Subjects Land companies--Texas, West--History Land settlement--Texas, West--History Colonization Acquisition

Gift, 1983

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, June 2000

 Preferred Citation

Double U Company Records, 1854-1982 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections:

Charles Dudley Eaves and C. A. Hutchinson Papers Collection Inventory Financial Material Ledger 1 Bank and Expense Accounts, 1931-1933 Ledger 2 Bank and Expense Accounts, 1917-1934 Ledger 3 Land Grants-Grantees and Patentees, 1854-1901 Ledger 4 Bank Teller's Daily Cash Record (never used), undated Ledger 5 Post Power Company Cash Book, 1919-1921 Ledger 6 Post Power Company Cash Book, 1922-1924 Ledger 7 Journal Entries of Double U Company Expenses, 1919-1926 Ledger 8 Job Record, 1917-1944 Ledger 9 Rent Register, 1919-1943 Ledger 10 Job Record, 1916-1917 Ledger 11 Job Record, 1910-1911 Ledger 12 Transfer Records, 1908-1919 Ledger 13 Post City Land Plats, 1914-1922 Ledger 14 Lynn County and Post City Land Plats, 1915 Ledger 15 Farm Plats, Garza County, Texas, 1914-1916 Ledger 16 Job Records, 1910 and undated Ledger 17 Check Register, 1919-1925 Ledger 18 Check Register and Record of Invoices Paid, 1915-1916 Ledger 19 Check Register and Record of Invoices Paid, 1917-1918 and undated Ledger 20 Voucher Register, 1919-1925 Ledger 21 Check Register, 1925-1935 Ledger 22 Land Sales, 1919-1922 Ledger 23 General Expenses, 1919-1921 Ledger 24 Rental and Toll Record, 1917-1921 Ledger 25 Rental and Toll Record, 1923-1927 Ledger 26 Job Record, 1911-1913 Ledger 27 Job Record, 1915-1916 Ledger 28 Electric Consumers, 1920 and undated Ledger 29 Electric Consumers, 1921 and undated Ledger 30 Job Records, 1915 Ledger 31 Investment, Equipment, Income, Operating Expenses, 1914-1918 Ledger 32 File Folder (unused and water damaged), undated Postex Cotton Mills 1 Postex Cotton Mills-Invoices, Statements and Receipts, 1915 1 Insley Concrete Placing Equipment Manual, 1922 2 Checks and Deposit Slips, 1913-1967 3 Postex Cotton Mills-Statements, Invoices, Receipts, Monthly Reports, 1919-1943 4 Postex Cotton Mills-Statements, Invoices, Receipts, 1914-1915 5 Manuals, Catalogs and Government Reports, 1910-1925 6 Postex Cotton Mills-Statements, Invoices, Receipts, 1915-1916 7 Bills, Receipts, Order Forms and Section Blueprints, 1913-1921 8 Transfer Vouchers, Deposit Slips, Order Forms, 1922-1937 9 Postex Cotton Mills-Machinery, Operations, Sales, Employee Benefit Files, 1942-1943 10 Notes, Pay Vouchers, Lists of Prospects (Bosque County), Inventories, Blueprints, Surveys, (water damaged), 1916-1940 and undated 11 Ledger-Daily Cash Summary, 1928-1934 12 Correspondence, Commission Reports, House Member Charts, 1912-1942 12 Postex Cotton Mills-Statements, Invoices and Receipts, 1912-1942 13 Financial Material-Index Cards of Jobs and Building Plans, Transit Books (water Damaged), Expense Accounts and Vouchers, 1913-1925 13 Financial Material-Job Records and Specifications, Advertisements, Correspondence, 1913-1925 13 Legal Material-Deeds and Transfers, 1916-1951 14 Financial Material-C. W. Post Estate: Correspondence, Bills of Sale, Invoices, Ledgers, Index Cards, 1916-1928 14 Financial Material-Figure Sheets, Charts, Reservoir Reports, Property Inventories (Hockley County), 1916-1928 14 Printed Material: Geologic Surveys, Maps, Industrial Machine Periodicals (water Damaged), undated 15 Postex Cotton Mills-Statements, Invoices and Receipts, 1915-1916 16 Printed Material, Correspondence, Invoices, Building Estimates, Ledger-Receivable And Payable Accounts, (some water damage), 1908-1926 17 Louder Barn Equipment Catalog, Transit books, Deeds and Bills of Sale, Payroll Summaries, Post Power Company rates, 1910-1941 17 Cash Vouchers, Estimates and Building Specifications, Plats, Blueprints, (water damaged), 1910-1941 18 Printed Material: Catalogs, 1918-1929; 18 Printed Material: University of Texas Bulletin (Some Water Damage), 1914 19 Bills and Invoices, Purchase Vouchers, Maps, 1908-1935 20 Postex Cotton Mills-Statements, Invoices and Receipts, 1918-1919 21 Blueprints and Abstracts (water damaged), 1915-1916 22 Postex Cotton Mills - Statements, Invoices, Receipts, Notes, 1919-1920 23 Postex Cotton Mills- Statements, Invoices, Receipts, Insurance policies and ID's, Inventories (Postex, Post Power Co.), 1918-1941 23 Postex Cotton Mills-Tax Returns, Correspondence, Unemployment Compensation Checks, 1918-1941 24 Postex Cotton Mills - Statements, Invoices and Receipts, 1918 25 Postex Cotton Mills - Unemployment Compensation checks, Remittance Statements, Insurance forms, Lint Cotton Tagging Certificates, Tax Returns, 1913-1942 26 Postex Cotton Mills - Receipts and Transactions, Correspondence, Contracts, Tax Returns, Income Statements, 1935-1943 26 Postex Cotton Mills-Fidelity Bond Applications, Lint Cotton Tagging Certificates, The Converse Code, 1935-1943 27 Postex Cotton Mills - Statements, Invoices and Receipts, 1917-1924 28 Postex Cotton Mills - Statements, Invoices and Receipts, 1921-1923 29 Postex Cotton Mills - Correspondence, Journal Entries, Receipts and Invoices, 1923-1924 30 Postex Cotton Mills - Correspondence, Journals and Vouchers, Plats and Blueprints, 1920-1922 31 Postex Cotton Mills - Correspondence, Invoices, Insurance forms, Journals and Vouchers, 1920-1923 32 Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Correspondence, Invoices, Post Power Company materials, 1920-1924 33 Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Correspondence, Invoices, 1920-1921 34 Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Insurance claim forms, Invoices and Receipts, 1916 35 Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Insurance claim forms, Invoices and Receipts, 1925 36 Postex Cotton Mills - Correspondence, Invoices and Receipts, 1925 37 Post Power Company and other area businesses, Journals and Vouchers, 1919-1926 38 Postex Cotton Mills-Journals and Vouchers, Invoices and Receipts, 1916 39 Postex Cotton Mills-Journals and Vouchers, Invoices and Receipts, 1916 40 Postex Cotton Mills-Correspondence, Invoices, Receipts, 1922-1923 41 Postex Cotton Mills-Correspondence, Invoices, Receipts, 1923-1925 42 Printed Material: OS Ranch Steer Roping and Art Exhibit Books, Brochures, 1973-1982 42 Town plats and blueprints, 1880-1916 42 Well Logs, 1915-1917 42 Photograph of Algerita (now Garza) Hotel, ca. 1910 43 Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Invoices and Receipts, 1917-1918 44 Postex Cotton Mills - Vouchers and Statements, 1914-1922 and undated 44 Legal Material - Maps and Blueprints, 1914-1922 and undated 45 Legal Material - Blueprints and Abstracts, 1914-1916 46 Postex Cotton Mills - Statements and Vouchers, 1922 46 Legal Material - Survey plats and Maps, 1916 and undated 47 Postex Cotton Mills - Statements, Vouchers, Invoices, 1922-1923 48 Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Invoices, 1916 49 Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Invoices, Receipts, 1922-1926 50 Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, 1917-1918 51 Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Invoices, Receipts, 1917-1922 52 Town Maps and Sewage Line Charts, Blueprints, Tables of Waterway Drainage Areas (ATSF Railroad), 1908-1915 and undated