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R. M. Anderson
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This was Donated by Cheryl Webber.
This Real Photo Postcard (RPPC) States: "R. M. Anderson, 1909."
The Real Photo Postcard (RPPC) is addressed to Miss Carrie Hilburn, Clio, Arkansas.
The Real Photo Postcard is postmarked from Denver, Colorado.
NOTE: The Clio Lumber Company, which was begun in 1889, was located five miles north of Rison on the Cotton Belt at a small community named Clio. It was a subsidiary of the Bluff City Lumber Company of Pine Bluff. The Clio Mill was an exemplary milling operation that was given extensive coverage in 1909 in the American Lumberman Magazine, a prestigious industry publication. At that time the mill owned several thousand acres of timberland which amounted to several million board feet of lumber. In1909 the mill had 640 employees including 432 men
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