THE HARBOR lights glowed through a fine drizzle as the J. N. Teal, the last of the old sternwheeler fleet to carry cargo and passengers between Portland and The Dalles, churned into her West Side dock. With my blanket roll at my feet I stood by the rail and stared, Read More
Elmer Findell Dies on Hunting Trip Elmer A. Findell, 65, who for the past half-century was a figure in the lumbering industry in western Montana, died Wednesday afternoon of a heart attack. He was on a deer hunting trip in the Morrell creek country northeast of Missoula when death came. Read More
Old Time Saw Mill Was Social Center – Missoulian 6/7/1925 Anne Hawkins Compares Big Establishments of Today With Those of Long Ago. By Anne Hawkins (pseudonym) I made a trip up to Bonner just especially to see what resemblance I could find in the splendid big mill there, to the Read More
Polleys Mill Whistle Has History Romantic [And so did The Missoulian reporting staff] Whistle At Polleys Mill Served 30 Years In Michigan Lumber Industry Residents of Missoula have been wakened from their slumbers lately by a deep-toned, melodious whistle which suggests a Mississippi river steamboat whistle of the days of Read More
Harper-Baird Logging Baird-Harper Logging and Lumber was one of the oldest logging and lumber operations in early Western Montana, beginning in the 1890’s. Early on they were associated with the Anaconda Copper Company’s lumber mills, mainly in the Bitter Root. Over several decades they operated in various places in Montana, Read More
Biggest Pine Tree 1,100 Years Old Makes 10,700 Ft. Lumber. The largest western yellow pine tree to be felled in this part of the country, according to available records, was cut during the week by the Polleys Lumber company a short distance east of Evaro, it is reported by Ray Read More
Logging Operations At Nine Mile Ended A. C. M. Will Move Into Blackfoot Country Before Long The logging camps at Nine Mile are being closed after 10 years of active operation. Where the saws and axes of hundreds of husky lumberjacks have resounded for 10 years, silence now reigns. A Read More
Anaconda’s Tepee Shuts Down Today Bonner residents will be getting cleaner air after Saturday with the closure of the last remaining tepee burner at the Anaconda Forest Products Co.’s Bonner mill. Robert Sheridan, plant manager, said Friday that Saturday will be the last day ever for the tepee burner. It Read More
This ad appeared in the Missoulian Centennial issue Blackfoot River Dam for Mill at Bonner This dam was constructed in the early years of the Blackfoot Milling & Manufacturing Co. to provide a millpond in the Blackfoot River in which to float logs to the mill’s big saws. (Courtesy Read More
This ad appeared in the Missoulian Centennial issue. Missoula’s First Two Commercial Buildings This sawmill (at left) and gristmill were constructed in 1864-65 by Missoula’s cofounders, Francis L. Worden and Capt. Christopher P. Higgins, at what today is the north end of Higgins Avenue Bridge. These were the first Read More