Early History of The L. \M. Blinn Lumber Co.

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.N. M. & A. extended its railroad to Fairbank and the Lumber Company moved its Contention yard to Fairbank.

_ During this period and a few years following, the Lumber Company established and had in operaiion branch yards at Benson, Contention, Fairbank, Charleston, Bisbee, Willcox, Arizona, Lordsburg, Deming, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. Then about 1887 eitablished and oper- ated branches at Phoenix, Tempe and Casa Grande lnd s-ome years later branches at Mesa and Clifton. During all this period headquarters for the Company's businesi in the Southwest was at their Tombstone office until the latter part of 1888 when the Main Office of the Company was moved to Los Angeles and the Tombstone yard was closed.

Inl9O2, after Mr. E. B. Gage had returned to Tombstone and with Mr. Frank Murphy merged all the old mining properties into Tombstone Consolidated Mines, the E. p. & S. W. R. R. completed building from Fairbank to Tombstone, the Blinn Company donating the right-of-way for the road through their yard site, Tombstone yard wis reopened as a branch and continued in business until the end of the year 1910,,when Tombstone went peacefully to sleep for the second time.

Th_e Company still owns the original yard site on Tough- nut Street. Their original office (built in the year 1880) is still in existence, having been sold many yeirs ago foi a dwelling and moved to Allen below First- Sireet w[ere it now stands.

Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Meet

The first meeting of the Hoo Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club at Angeles, on Thursday, October Hanson presided.