Double U Company:
An Inventory of Its Records, 1854-1982 and undated, at the
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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| Creator | Double U
Company |
| Title: | Double U Company
Records,
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| Dates: | 1854-1982 and undated |
| Abstract: | Records of the Double
U Company, a land colonization company charted in 1907 by breakfast food
magnate Charles William Post. |
| Collection # | S 272.3 |
| Quantity: | 52 boxes and 32
ledgers (68.0 linear feet) |
| Language | English. |
| Repository: | Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University |
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.
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.
Access Restrictions
Open for research
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| 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 |
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For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, see the following collections:
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- Charles Dudley Eaves and C. A. Hutchinson Papers
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Double U Company Records, 1854-1982 and undated, Southwest
Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,
Texas
Gift, 1983
Abel Ramirez, June 2000
Collection Inventory
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Financial Material
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| othertype |
| Ledger 1 | | | Bank and Expense Accounts,
1931-1933 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 2 | | | Bank and Expense Accounts,
1917-1934 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 3 | | | Land Grants-Grantees and Patentees,
1854-1901 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 4 | | | Bank Teller's Daily Cash Record (never used),
undated |
| othertype |
| Ledger 5 | | | Post Power Company Cash Book,
1919-1921 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 6 | | | Post Power Company Cash Book,
1922-1924 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 7 | | | Journal Entries of Double U Company Expenses,
1919-1926 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 8 | | | Job Record,
1917-1944 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 9 | | | Rent Register,
1919-1943 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 10 | | | Job Record,
1916-1917 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 11 | | | Job Record,
1910-1911 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 12 | | | Transfer Records,
1908-1919 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 13 | | | Post City Land Plats,
1914-1922 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 14 | | | Lynn County and Post City Land Plats,
1915 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 15 | | | Farm Plats, Garza County, Texas,
1914-1916 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 16 | | | Job Records,
1910 and undated |
| othertype |
| Ledger 17 | | | Check Register,
1919-1925 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 18 | | | Check Register and Record of Invoices Paid,
1915-1916 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 19 | | | Check Register and Record of Invoices Paid,
1917-1918 and undated |
| othertype |
| Ledger 20 | | | Voucher Register,
1919-1925 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 21 | | | Check Register,
1925-1935 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 22 | | | Land Sales,
1919-1922 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 23 | | | General Expenses,
1919-1921 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 24 | | | Rental and Toll Record,
1917-1921 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 25 | | | Rental and Toll Record,
1923-1927 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 26 | | | Job Record,
1911-1913 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 27 | | | Job Record,
1915-1916 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 28 | | | Electric Consumers,
1920 and undated |
| othertype |
| Ledger 29 | | | Electric Consumers,
1921 and undated |
| othertype |
| Ledger 30 | | | Job Records,
1915 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 31 | | | Investment, Equipment, Income, Operating Expenses,
1914-1918 |
| othertype |
| Ledger 32 | | | File Folder (unused and water damaged),
undated |
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Postex Cotton Mills
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| 1 | | | Postex Cotton Mills-Invoices, Statements and Receipts,
1915 |
| | | Insley Concrete Placing Equipment Manual,
1922 |
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| 2 | | | Checks and Deposit Slips,
1913-1967 |
| box |
| 3 | | | Postex Cotton Mills-Statements, Invoices, Receipts,
Monthly Reports,
1919-1943 |
| box |
| 4 | | | Postex Cotton Mills-Statements, Invoices, Receipts,
1914-1915 |
| box |
| 5 | | | Manuals, Catalogs and Government Reports,
1910-1925 |
| box |
| 6 | | | Postex Cotton Mills-Statements, Invoices, Receipts,
1915-1916 |
| box |
| 7 | | | Bills, Receipts, Order Forms and Section Blueprints,
1913-1921 |
| box |
| 8 | | | Transfer Vouchers, Deposit Slips, Order Forms,
1922-1937 |
| box |
| 9 | | | Postex Cotton Mills-Machinery, Operations, Sales,
Employee Benefit Files,
1942-1943 |
| box |
| 10 | | | Notes, Pay Vouchers, Lists of Prospects (Bosque County),
Inventories, Blueprints, Surveys, (water damaged),
1916-1940 and undated |
| box |
| 11 | | | Ledger-Daily Cash Summary,
1928-1934 |
| box |
| 12 | | | Correspondence, Commission Reports, House Member Charts,
1912-1942 |
| | | Postex Cotton Mills-Statements, Invoices and Receipts,
1912-1942 |
| box |
| 13 | | | Financial Material-Index Cards of Jobs and Building
Plans, Transit Books (water Damaged), Expense Accounts and Vouchers,
1913-1925 |
| | | Financial Material-Job Records and Specifications,
Advertisements, Correspondence,
1913-1925 |
| | | Legal Material-Deeds and Transfers,
1916-1951 |
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| 14 | | | Financial Material-C. W. Post Estate: Correspondence,
Bills of Sale, Invoices, Ledgers, Index Cards,
1916-1928 |
| | | Financial Material-Figure Sheets, Charts, Reservoir
Reports, Property Inventories (Hockley County),
1916-1928 |
| | | Printed Material: Geologic Surveys, Maps, Industrial
Machine Periodicals (water Damaged),
undated |
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| 15 | | | Postex Cotton Mills-Statements, Invoices and Receipts,
1915-1916 |
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| 16 | | | Printed Material, Correspondence, Invoices, Building
Estimates, Ledger-Receivable And Payable Accounts, (some water damage),
1908-1926 |
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| 17 | | | Louder Barn Equipment Catalog, Transit books, Deeds and
Bills of Sale, Payroll Summaries, Post Power Company rates,
1910-1941 |
| | | Cash Vouchers, Estimates and Building Specifications,
Plats, Blueprints, (water damaged),
1910-1941 |
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| 18 | | | Printed Material: Catalogs,
1918-1929; |
| | | Printed Material: University of Texas Bulletin (Some
Water Damage),
1914 |
| box |
| 19 | | | Bills and Invoices, Purchase Vouchers, Maps,
1908-1935 |
| box |
| 20 | | | Postex Cotton Mills-Statements, Invoices and Receipts,
1918-1919 |
| box |
| 21 | | | Blueprints and Abstracts (water damaged),
1915-1916 |
| box |
| 22 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Statements, Invoices, Receipts,
Notes,
1919-1920 |
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| 23 | | | Postex Cotton Mills- Statements, Invoices, Receipts,
Insurance policies and ID's, Inventories (Postex, Post Power Co.),
1918-1941 |
| | | Postex Cotton Mills-Tax Returns, Correspondence,
Unemployment Compensation Checks,
1918-1941 |
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| 24 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Statements, Invoices and Receipts,
1918 |
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| 25 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Unemployment Compensation checks,
Remittance Statements, Insurance forms, Lint Cotton Tagging Certificates, Tax
Returns,
1913-1942 |
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| 26 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Receipts and Transactions,
Correspondence, Contracts, Tax Returns, Income Statements,
1935-1943 |
| | | Postex Cotton Mills-Fidelity Bond Applications, Lint
Cotton Tagging Certificates, The Converse Code,
1935-1943 |
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| 27 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Statements, Invoices and Receipts,
1917-1924 |
| box |
| 28 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Statements, Invoices and Receipts,
1921-1923 |
| box |
| 29 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Correspondence, Journal Entries,
Receipts and Invoices,
1923-1924 |
| box |
| 30 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Correspondence, Journals and
Vouchers, Plats and Blueprints,
1920-1922 |
| box |
| 31 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Correspondence, Invoices,
Insurance forms, Journals and Vouchers,
1920-1923 |
| box |
| 32 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers,
Correspondence, Invoices, Post Power Company materials,
1920-1924 |
| box |
| 33 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers,
Correspondence, Invoices,
1920-1921 |
| box |
| 34 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Insurance
claim forms, Invoices and Receipts,
1916 |
| box |
| 35 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Insurance
claim forms, Invoices and Receipts,
1925 |
| box |
| 36 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Correspondence, Invoices and
Receipts,
1925 |
| box |
| 37 | | | Post Power Company and other area businesses, Journals
and Vouchers,
1919-1926 |
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| 38 | | | Postex Cotton Mills-Journals and Vouchers, Invoices and
Receipts,
1916 |
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| 39 | | | Postex Cotton Mills-Journals and Vouchers, Invoices and
Receipts,
1916 |
| box |
| 40 | | | Postex Cotton Mills-Correspondence, Invoices, Receipts,
1922-1923 |
| box |
| 41 | | | Postex Cotton Mills-Correspondence, Invoices, Receipts,
1923-1925 |
| box |
| 42 | | | Printed Material: OS Ranch Steer Roping and Art Exhibit
Books, Brochures,
1973-1982 |
| | | Town plats and blueprints,
1880-1916 |
| | | Well Logs,
1915-1917 |
| | | Photograph of Algerita (now Garza) Hotel,
ca. 1910 |
| box |
| 43 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Invoices
and Receipts,
1917-1918 |
| box |
| 44 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Vouchers and Statements,
1914-1922 and undated |
| | | Legal Material - Maps and Blueprints,
1914-1922 and undated |
| box |
| 45 | | | Legal Material - Blueprints and Abstracts,
1914-1916 |
| box |
| 46 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Statements and Vouchers,
1922 |
| | | Legal Material - Survey plats and Maps,
1916 and undated |
| box |
| 47 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Statements, Vouchers, Invoices,
1922-1923 |
| box |
| 48 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Invoices,
1916 |
| box |
| 49 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Invoices,
Receipts,
1922-1926 |
| box |
| 50 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers,
1917-1918 |
| box |
| 51 | | | Postex Cotton Mills - Journals and Vouchers, Invoices,
Receipts,
1917-1922 |
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| 52 | | | Town Maps and Sewage Line Charts, Blueprints, Tables of
Waterway Drainage Areas (ATSF Railroad),
1908-1915 and undated |
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