Henry Clay Clark and the Phoenix Moulding and Planing Mill

I haven't found anything new on Henry Clay Clark from the 1870's, but I did find some interesting things from the 1880's.  It seems he partnered with and owned at least one lumber mill, and possibly two, in Dallas.  The Phoenix Moulding and Planing Mill appears in newspaper ads in the 1870s, and Henry Clark appears as partner in 1880.  I am not positive that was "our" Henry Clark (more on that later) but he was involved with that mill at least up through 1885.  It would seem logical that a real estate developer would be involved in the lumber business as it could provide building materials at cost.   It's neat to think he was practicing vertical integration practices back in the 1880's!  Here are several of the ads from newspapers and the Dallas City Directory.

By 1886-87 he had sold his interests to Edwards and Fetzer.

There is a second mill in town in the 1870's and 1880s known as the Rail Road Planing and Moulding Mill.  So far I have only seen one illustration from the Dallas City Directory where it shows they are successors to Clark & Clark.  One of the Clarks was P.T. Clark who died in 1877.  Whether the other one was one of "our" Clarks, I'm not sure.