GROVE LUMBER COMPANY
Lebanon
October 5, 1939: "An early Thursday morning fire which possibly started from shavings in the boiler room, leveled the entire manufacturing plant of the Grove Lumber company sawmill in the Fairview district with an estimated loss of approximately $27,000. There was no insurance.
Discovered when the plant was a mass of flames by Rudolph Anderson, sawyer who lived nearby, the blaze was fought for four hours by Lebanon firemen, who with the large pumper, saved the planing mill, the south end of the dock and a donkey engine from destruction.
The mill is owned by John Nylund and J. A. Wallin, and employed 22 men. A number of others employed by Ray Hall who supplied the logs are also thrown out of work. The mill, which was modern in every respect, was moved here about a year and a half ago from Cherry Grove. It made a daily cut of about 40,000 feet.
The fire broke out shortly after midnight, it was reported.
Explosion of two large drums of gas and oil and further spread of the fire were prevented by Lebanon volunteers who extinguished a blazing storage building only a few feet from the plant proper. About 12 firemen responded, running four lines and the booster hose from one piece of apparatus. Water was drawn from the mill pond.
Nylund could not say Thursday morning whether he and his partner would rebuild." (The Lebanon Express)
Discovered when the plant was a mass of flames by Rudolph Anderson, sawyer who lived nearby, the blaze was fought for four hours by Lebanon firemen, who with the large pumper, saved the planing mill, the south end of the dock and a donkey engine from destruction.
The mill is owned by John Nylund and J. A. Wallin, and employed 22 men. A number of others employed by Ray Hall who supplied the logs are also thrown out of work. The mill, which was modern in every respect, was moved here about a year and a half ago from Cherry Grove. It made a daily cut of about 40,000 feet.
The fire broke out shortly after midnight, it was reported.
Explosion of two large drums of gas and oil and further spread of the fire were prevented by Lebanon volunteers who extinguished a blazing storage building only a few feet from the plant proper. About 12 firemen responded, running four lines and the booster hose from one piece of apparatus. Water was drawn from the mill pond.
Nylund could not say Thursday morning whether he and his partner would rebuild." (The Lebanon Express)