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International Paper Company (BO-47)
| sawmill id: | 9637 |
| alpha-numeric key: | BO-47 |
| corporate name: | International Paper Company |
| local name: | |
| owner affiliation: | International Paper Co. with Morgan R. Bedford |
| location: | Texarkana, also known as Domino |
| county: | Bowie |
| years in operation: | 25 |
| start year: | 1972 |
| (qual) | |
| end year: | 1996 |
| (qual) | * |
| decades: | 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 |
| period of operation: | 1972 to 1996 |
| town: | Texarkana, also known as Domino |
| company town: | No |
| peak town size: | Unknown |
| mill pond: | |
| type of mill: | Bleached board and bleached paper |
| sawmill: | |
| pine sawmill: | |
| hardwood sawmill: | |
| cypress sawmill: | |
| planer: | |
| planer only: | |
| shingle: | |
| paper: | Yes |
| plywood: | |
| cotton: | |
| grist: | |
| unknown: | |
| other: | |
| power source: | Steam and electric |
| horse: | |
| mule: | |
| oxen: | |
| water: | |
| water overshot: | |
| water turbine: | |
| pit: | |
| steam: | Yes |
| steam circular: | |
| steam band: | |
| gas: | |
| diesel: | |
| electric: | Yes |
| other: | |
| unknown: | |
| maximum capacity: | |
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| capacity comments: | 1967: 231,000 tons annually projected. 1970: 300,000 tons annually projected. |
| rough lumber: | |
| planed lumber: | |
| crossties: | |
| timbers: | |
| lathe: | |
| ceiling: | |
| unknown: | |
| beading: | |
| flooring: | |
| paper: | Yes |
| plywood: | |
| particle board: | |
| treated: | |
| other: | |
| equipment: | Paper mill |
| company tram: | No |
| associated railroads: | Unknown |
| historical development: | The International Paper mills in Bowie County Texas are located at Texarkana (the immediate area once the community of Domino) and at New Boston. The Domino plant, which began in 1972, is a paper mill producing bleached board and market pulp. The International Paper Co. announced in 1967 that it would build a new paper mill in Cass County along the Sulphur River below Lake Texarkana. Operations would employ 750 workers at a $6,000,000 payroll, and the plant would produce 231,000 tons of bleached board and bleached paper. The plant was built at Domino, a suburb of Texarkana. The Texas Forest News carried an International Paper announced that its long-delayed plant would finally begin operating in early 1972. The plant would create 525 new jobs and produce an annual capacity of 300,000 tons of pulpwood. Bob Curries? article in Texas Logger in 1993 revealed that IP ?at Texarkana? was receiving ?[A]ll of their pulpwood, pine and hardwood? from Robertson Logging of Ore City. |
| research date: | MCJ 03-08-96 |
| research by: | M. Johnson |
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| bibliography: | 1987 Directory of Forest Products Industries In Texas. Circular 275. Texas Forest Products Laboratory, July 1987. 7. ?News Brief.? Texas Forest News 49. Spring 1970. 6. The Gulf Coast Lumberman. November, 1967. 22. Directory of the Forest Products Industry. San Francisco: Miller Freeman, 1990. 202. Bob Currie. ?The Right Stuff: Robertson Logging of Ore City has the right stuff.? Texas Logger No. 2. July 1993. 3-4. W. Robert Rollen, Jr., Oral Interview by Tonya Whitescarver. February 2, 1995. Lufkin, Texas. |
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