Information Sheet
R Welch, Austin H.
824 Papers, 1908-1927.
One folder.
These are business papers of Austin H. Welch of St. Louis, Missouri, regarding investments in Missouri and Arkansas lands through the Dorsey Corporation of Moline, Illinois. Among the papers are reports on a coal property near Bourbon in Crawford County, Missouri, and agricultural land near Texarkana in Miller County, Arkansas.
Austin H. Welch’s interest in the Dorsey Corporation seems to have come via Mrs. Florence D. Welch, a beneficiary of the estate of M. J. Dorsey. M. J. and H. S. “Harry” Dorsey of Moline, Illinois, pursued a number of real estate and business ventures through the Dorsey Corporation. In addition to a 560-acre tract in Crawford County, Missouri, the Dorsey Land & Lumber Company, with offices in Texarkana, Arkansas, owned 16,966.64 acres of Red River bottomland and 480 acres of hill land in southeastern Miller County, Arkansas. The company sold or leased lots to farmers for conversion from cane sod to cotton cultivation. In June 1925 there were prospects of bumper crops, but “cotton went to the devil” by December.
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