ALBANY LUMBER MILLS
Linn County - Albany
continued from: Bronson Lumber company
January 29, 1934: "Reuben Barker, Portland, Saturday afternoon completed the purchase of the old Cameron sawmill, south of Albany, from George H. Bronson, who has owned the property for the past few years.
Announcement of the transaction was announced Saturday evening by L. L. Swan, who represented one of the parties.
The new owner will immediately install new machinery and will have the mill in operation by February 15, he told Mr. Swan on his departure for Portland Saturday night.
The mill will have a capacity of 75,000 board feet a day and will give employment to 35 persons in the mill besides an adequate number of workers in the woods and truck operators.
Mr. Barker said that he has not arranged for enough logs to run the mill at full capacity. He will return to Albany Tuesday and will be at the mill where he will be glad to contact persons who can furnish him with logs by truck or otherwise.
The new owner is an experienced sawmill man, being a member of the Kenton Lumber mills.
News of the operation of the mill will be received gladly in Albany, as it will establish a payroll of considerable size and help put an end to the unemployment situation." (Albany Democrat-Herald)
Announcement of the transaction was announced Saturday evening by L. L. Swan, who represented one of the parties.
The new owner will immediately install new machinery and will have the mill in operation by February 15, he told Mr. Swan on his departure for Portland Saturday night.
The mill will have a capacity of 75,000 board feet a day and will give employment to 35 persons in the mill besides an adequate number of workers in the woods and truck operators.
Mr. Barker said that he has not arranged for enough logs to run the mill at full capacity. He will return to Albany Tuesday and will be at the mill where he will be glad to contact persons who can furnish him with logs by truck or otherwise.
The new owner is an experienced sawmill man, being a member of the Kenton Lumber mills.
News of the operation of the mill will be received gladly in Albany, as it will establish a payroll of considerable size and help put an end to the unemployment situation." (Albany Democrat-Herald)
February 27, 1934: "Boilers are steamed up. re[airs have been made and the Albany Lumber mills will be ready to start operations Wednesday morning, according to Reuben Barker, who recently bought the Bronson Lumber Co. located just south of town on the Pacific highway.
Since the announcement that Barker had purchased the mill that was built a few years ago by C. C. Cameron, a crew of men has been busy putting machinery in shape, cleaning boilers, building new loading docks and ramps, installing an automatic feed table in the planing mill and making other improvements. The mill has been entirely overhauled and the planing mill rebuilt.
The Albany Lumber Mills will have a capacity of 12,000 feet an hour and will operate the limit of six hours per day and 30 hours per week under the NRA lumber code. The mill has been allotted a quota of 1,800,000 feet for this quarter by the lumber code authority.
More than $3,000 a month will be turned into the channels of trade by the crew of 35 men who will be employed. In addition there will be two watchmen. Besides the men employed in the mill it will take from 35 to 40 more to supply logs and transport them to the mill. Five logging contracts have already been let. The Oregon Electric has sent a number of cars to Holley to transport logs to the mill. Logging camps will be operated at Holley and Cascadia.
Reuben Barker comes from a family long experienced in the lumber business. His father, R. F. Barker and brother, George R. Barker, operate the Kenton Lumber Co. near Portland. The superintendent of the Albany Lumber mills will be R. E. Stranahan, who has been in the lumber business for for the last 25 years and who has operated mills in other localities for the Barker family." (Albany Democrat-Herald)
Since the announcement that Barker had purchased the mill that was built a few years ago by C. C. Cameron, a crew of men has been busy putting machinery in shape, cleaning boilers, building new loading docks and ramps, installing an automatic feed table in the planing mill and making other improvements. The mill has been entirely overhauled and the planing mill rebuilt.
The Albany Lumber Mills will have a capacity of 12,000 feet an hour and will operate the limit of six hours per day and 30 hours per week under the NRA lumber code. The mill has been allotted a quota of 1,800,000 feet for this quarter by the lumber code authority.
More than $3,000 a month will be turned into the channels of trade by the crew of 35 men who will be employed. In addition there will be two watchmen. Besides the men employed in the mill it will take from 35 to 40 more to supply logs and transport them to the mill. Five logging contracts have already been let. The Oregon Electric has sent a number of cars to Holley to transport logs to the mill. Logging camps will be operated at Holley and Cascadia.
Reuben Barker comes from a family long experienced in the lumber business. His father, R. F. Barker and brother, George R. Barker, operate the Kenton Lumber Co. near Portland. The superintendent of the Albany Lumber mills will be R. E. Stranahan, who has been in the lumber business for for the last 25 years and who has operated mills in other localities for the Barker family." (Albany Democrat-Herald)
March 2, 1934: "Thirty-five men have been given steady employment and an extra crew of ten men is working at the mill of the Albany Lumber company, which resumed operations Wednesday afternoon. A 16- car trainload of logs arrived at the mill this morning.
The mill will have a capacity of 12,000 feet of lumber an hour. In addition to the regular mill crew, a number of carpenters are being given work building sheds and doing repair work.
Logs are being trucked into the mill pond at present but a logging camp will soon be started above Holley. Trainloads of logs will be brought to Albany for the mill over the Oregon Electric railroad.
The mill will sell wood, sawdust and lumber at the plant and will export most of the output of lumber to the Atlantic coast." (Greater Oregon)
The mill will have a capacity of 12,000 feet of lumber an hour. In addition to the regular mill crew, a number of carpenters are being given work building sheds and doing repair work.
Logs are being trucked into the mill pond at present but a logging camp will soon be started above Holley. Trainloads of logs will be brought to Albany for the mill over the Oregon Electric railroad.
The mill will sell wood, sawdust and lumber at the plant and will export most of the output of lumber to the Atlantic coast." (Greater Oregon)