This article appeared in the Missoulian Centennial issue. The Bonner mill of the Anaconda Co. Lumber Department with 500 employees and an annual production capacity of 85 million feet of commercial lumber, is the largest producer of lumber, timber and wood products in the Missoula area. Since its acquisition Read More
Three-Plant Firm Does Heavy Business – Two Sawmills Supply Unfinished Lumber Providing a substantial part of the important lumber industry in western Montana is Montana Lumber Sales Inc., an organization founded in December of 1949 by the late Paul Delaney. Delaney, who began his career in the Read More
The article below appeared in the Missoulian-Sentinel Centennial edition in 1960. White Pine Sash Co. In City Four Decades One of Missoula’s major industries the past four decades has been the Missoula White Pine Sash Co. on the North Side. The firm was organized in April 1920 when it purchased Read More
Below are links to a couple of articles about Van Evan Plywood that appeared in The Northwest magazine [Northern Pacific Railway Publication] for March/April of 1960 and May/June of 1963. (See page 6 of 1960) http://www.nprha.org/Publications/The_NORTHWEST/1960s/1960_02_MAR-APR_The_NORTHWEST_M.pdf http://www.nprha.org/Publications/The_NORTHWEST/1960s/1963_03_MAY-JUN_The_NORTHWEST_M.pdf http://morphotoarchive.org/rvndb/rvnjpeg_img_rec.php?objno=RVN24839 I spent a couple of months there – probably in 1968. One of my brothers and many Read More
Below is a link to an article about several Missoula area mills that appeared in Industrial Horizons – a publication of the Montana State Planning Board – 1958: https://archive.org/stream/industrialhorizojulyaug1958rich#page/4/mode/2uphttps://archive.org/stream/industrialhorizojulyaug1958rich#page/4/mode/2up
Waldorf Pulp at Missoula – 1956 Below are links about Waldorf from Industrial Horizons – a publication of the Montana State Planning Board https://archive.org/stream/induoct1956strialhorizorich#page/2/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/industrialhorizoapril1958rich#page/n1/mode/2up
LOGGING CAMPS ARE SHUT DOWN Four Feet of Snow in Big Blackfoot Country Stops All Work – Other Camps Probably Closed. All the logging camps of the Big Blackfoot Milling company have been shut down and are likely to stay shut to some days. There is over Read More
The greatest of the Montana copper and timber cases involved Andrew Hammond. One student of his life has written obliquely that Hammond’s “logging crews cut timber from land he had purchased from the railroad, but there is little doubt that his woodcutters also strayed onto adjacent federal lands.” In its Read More