RISE OF COMPANY TOWNS

JOHN HENRY KIRBY

• Owned largest lumber company in Texas
• Started the lumber industry in Texas
• Owned 300,000 acres of east Texas woods
• Operated 14 major sawmills
• Also known as "Prince of The Pines"

COMPANY TOWNS

• Community's in logging area
• Live,worship and play there
• Promised Jobs and social life inside the towns
• Paid scrip that was only currency in the town nowhere else
• Scrip-money issued by the company that could only be spent inside the town