Descriptive Summary
Texas and Pacific Coal
Company
Texas and Pacific Coal
Company Records,
1889-1979 and undated
Records and activities
of the Texas and Pacific Coal Company and its numerous subsidiaries in Thurber,
Texas.
S 1021.2
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library,
Texas Tech University
5 boxes (5.0 linear
feet)
English.
Biographical Sketch
The company was formed by Colonel Robert Dickey Hunter in 1888 in
Erath County, Texas. Hunter also formed the company town of Thurber, named for
his business partner, H. K. Thurber. The area reached peak development in the
early 1900s, providing half the coal supply for Texas. Oil discoveries near
Ranger, Texas in 1917 prompted the company to cease operations. In 1933, the
company moved its headquarters to Fort Worth and, in 1963, after Seagrams
Distillers Company purchased the company, the offices were moved to Dallas,
Texas, and its operations were merged to the Frankfort Oil Company.
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, financial material, legal
materials, charter records, business reports, meeting minutes of the directors,
stockholders, and executive committees relating to the company's operation
including Green and Hunter Brick Company, Texas Coal and Fuel Company, Texas
Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturing Company, Thurber Brick Company, Thurber
Construction Company, and Thurber Earthen Products Company.
Organization
The records are organized in the following series:
- Box 1-5: Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company, 1889-1979 and undated
- Box 5: Texas and Pacific Coal Company, 1890-1951 and undated
- Box 5: Green and Hunter Brick Company, 1903-1907
- Box 5: Homestake Exploration (Oil) Company, 1925-1926
- Box 5: Texas Coal and Fuel Company, 1903-1906
- Box 5: Texas Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturing Company, 1894-1934
- Box 5: Thurber Brick Company, 1908-1934
- Box 5: Thurber Construction Company, 1934
- Box 5: Thurber Earthen Products Company, 1931-1940 and undated
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 (Organizations)
Green and Hunter Brick
Company (Thurber, Tex.)
Homestake Exploration
Company (Thurber, Tex.)
Texas Coal and Fuel
Company
Texas Pacific Mercantile
and Manufacturing Company (Thurber, Tex.)
Thurber Brick Company
(Thurber, Tex.)
Thurber Construction
Company
Thurber Earthen Products
Company
Texas and Pacific Coal
Company
Places
Thurber (Tex.)
Subjects
Petroleum industry and
trade--Texas
Petroleum industry and
trade--Texas--Texas Panhandle
Coal
industry--Texas
Gifts, 1978-1981
Access Restrictions
Open for research
Processed by
Abel Ramirez, May 2002
Preferred Citation
Texas and Pacific Coal Company Records, 1889-1879 and undated,
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, Texas
Additional Sources
Woodard, Don.
Black Diamonds! Black Gold! : the Saga of
Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company.Lubbock : Texas Tech University
Press, 1998.
Hardman, Weldon B.
Fire in a Hole!Gordon, Tex. : Thurber
Historical Association, 1975.
Gentry, Mary Jane.
Thurber, the Life and Death of a Texas
Town.Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas, 1946.
Floyd, Willie M.
Thurber, Texas, an Abandoned Coal Field
Town.Thesis (M.A.)--Southern Methodist University, 1939.
For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, see the following collections:
- Texas and Pacific Coal Company Records, 1887-1969 and undated
- Thurber, Texas, Collection, 1897-1976
- Thurber, Texas, Photograph Collection, SWCPC 209
- Erath County, Texas, Photograph Collection, SWCPC 209
- Mrs. Alta Latimer Hawkins oral history interview [sound recording], 1967
- Dean B. Hiatt oral history interview [sound recording], 1980
- Frank Martin oral history interview [sound recording], 1981
- Eugene Turnbow oral history interview [sound recording], 1978
- George B. Studdard oral history interview [sound recording], 1981
- R.F. Binney oral history interview [sound recording], 1982
- Ted Bott oral history interview [sound recording], 1978
- Ted Bott oral history interview [sound recording], 1980
- Mrs. W. A. Creswell oral history interview [sound recording], 1981
- Walter Dimbrell oral history interview [sound recording], 1978
- Weldon Hardeman oral history interview [sound recording], 1980
- William McGinnis oral history interview [sound recording]
Collection Inventory
Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company
1
1
Employment Record: Yarbro, James Wesley,
1963
1
2
Employment Record: Younger, Aaron Eugene,
1963
1
3
Annual Reports to Stockholders,
1889-1898
1
4
Annual Reports to Stockholders,
1899
1
5
Annual Reports,
1900
1
6
Annual Reports,
1901-1902
1
7
Annual Reports,
1903-1904
1
8
Annual Reports,
1905
1
9
Annual Reports,
1906-1910
1
10
Annual Reports,
1913-1920
1
11
Annual Reports,
1921-1930
1
12
Annual Reports,
1931-1940
1
13
Annual Reports,
1941-1950
1
14
Annual Reports,
1951-1952
1
15
Annual Reports,
1953-1955
1
16
Annual Reports, Rough Draft,
1955
2
1
Annual Reports,
1956
2
2
Annual Reports,
1957
2
3
Annual Reports,
1958-1959
2
4
Annual Reports,
1960-1962
2
5
Annual Reports,
1972-1974
2
6
Annual Reports,
1975-1976
2
7
Annual Reports,
1977
2
8
Annual Reports,
1979
2
9
Awards,
1956-1957
2
10
The Conference Table,
1957
2
11
General Files,
1952
2
12
General Files,
1953
2
13
General Files,
1954
2
14
General Files,
1955
2
15
General Files,
1955
2
16
General Files,
January-June 1956
3
1
General Files,
January-June 1956
3
2
General Files,
1952
3
3
General Files,
July-December 1956
3
4
General Files,
July-December 1956
3
5
General Files,
1957
3
6
General Files,
January-April 1958
3
7
General Files,
May-June 1958
3
8
General Files,
July-September 1958
3
9
General Files,
September-December 1958
3
10
General Files,
1958
3
11
General Files, Additional,
1958
3
12
General Files,
January 1959
3
13
Accounting Procedure,
1956
3
14
Activity of Investment Company Stockholders,
undated
3
15
Adair, Eugene T.,
1949-1960
3
16
Amerada Petroleum Company,
1962
4
1
Annual Reports,
1927-1962
4
2
Attorney General,
1958-1965
4
3
Data,
1953-1958
4
4
Digest of Files and Subject Matter Index,
undated
4
5
Duffy, B.A., Properties, Evaluation Report,
1962
4
6
Executive Committee Report, Vol. 1,
1957-1958
4
7
Executive Committee Report, Vol. 2,
1957-1959
4
8
Executive Committee Report, Vol. 3,
1958
4
9
Department of Justice,
1960-1962 and undated
4
10
Legal Material,
1957-1958 and undated
4
11
Memo to the Stockholders and Friends,
1955-1963
4
12
Opinions,
1948-1962
4
13
Organization Chart,
undated
4
14
Photographs,
1954-1955 and undated
4
15
Pure,
1960-1962
4
16
Report of Coal Reserves,
1953
4
17
Shaffer, Ray O.,
1934-1935
4
18
Sinclair Stock File,
1961-1962
4
19
Superior,
1960-1961
4
20
Texas Pacific,
1949-1962
5
1
Printed Materials: Annual Reports,
1919-1962
5
2
Printed Materials: By-laws,
undated
5
3
Charter, Texas and Pacific of Delaware,
1923-1938 and undated
5
4
Fee Lands,
1922-1938 and undated
5
5
Oklahoma Corporation Commission,
1933-1936 and undated
5
6
Patent Infringements,
1896-1933 and undated
5
7
Patents, General,
1928-1936 and undated
5
8
Patents, Correspondence,
1936
5
9
Patents, Correspondence,
1927-1935
5
10
Patents, General,
1901-1935
5
11
Patents, General,
1915-1935
5
12
Patents,
1937-1947
5
13
Patents,
1929-1931
Texas and Pacific Coal Company
5
14
Directors' Meeting Minutes,
1900-1906
5
15
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes,
1903-1908
5
16
Stockholders' Meeting Minutes,
1900-1906
5
17
Historical Reports,
1890-1951
5
18
Printed Materials: Film Projector Catalogs,
1929-1930
5
19
Printed Materials: Title Cards,
undated
5
20
Scrapbook Material: Duplicate Copies of Financial
Documents,
1892-1929
Green and Hunter Brick Company
5
21
Directors' Meeting Minutes,
1903
5
22
Stockholders' Meeting Minutes,
1903-1907
Homestake Exploration (Oil) Company
5
23
Stock Records,
1925-1926
Texas Coal and Fuel Company
5
24
Directors' Meeting Minutes,
1903-1905
5
25
Stockholders' Meeting Minutes,
1903-1906
Texas Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturing
Company
5
26
Charter,
1934
5
27
Directors' Meeting Minutes,
1894-1906
5
28
Stockholders' Meeting Minutes,
1895-1906
Thurber Brick Company
5
29
Charter,
1934
5
30
Directors' Meeting Minutes,
1910-1911
5
31
Stockholders' Meeting Minutes,
1908-1911
Thurber Construction Company
5
32
Charter,
1934
Thurber Earthen Products Company
5
33
Charter,
1931-1940 and undated