Information Sheet

 

 

R         IXL Handle Manufacturing Company.

932                  Billhead, 1911.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is an itemized bill for items sold by the IXL Handle Manufacturing Company at Dex­ter in Stoddard County, Missouri, to Mack Webb in El Campo, Texas.  The bill is dated 7 Febru­ary 1911.

 

This billhead identifies the IXL Handle Manufacturing Company as the maker of “the cele­brated IXL axe handles.”  The company, which was organized to exploit the hardwood forests of southeastern Missouri, produced “axe, sledge, spike maul, pick and hammer handles, buggy and wagon singletrees, doubletrees, neck yokes, etc.,” using “extra select and standard second-growth winter-cut material.”  IXL became a dominant firm in its field.

 

The officers are listed as President J. F. Webster, Vice-President E. I. Jorndt, and T. J. Hill, who was Secretary, Treasurer, and Manager.

 

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