HOOVER LUMBER COMPANY
Linn County - Hoover
July 13, 1906: "R. N. Hoover, W. R. Hoover, W. A. Hoover and Orin Judd have filed articles of incorporation for the Hoover Lumber company, with its principal office at Detroit, Oregon. They propose to buy and sell real and personal property; to generate and transmit electric currents for light and power, and to operate sawmills and lumber yards. The capital stock is $20,000." (Albany Democrat)
August 2, 1910: "The entire town of Hoover, eastern terminus of the Corvallis & Eastern Railway on the North Santiam River, 57 miles east of Albany, was wiped out by fire tonight.
The big sawmill of the Hoover Lumber Company, the entire lumber yard, the hotel and several bunkhouses and residences have been burned, and the latest reports received here stated that practically all other buildings in the little village were burning and in probability there would be scarcely a house left.
The loss will probably reach $100,000. Practically every building in the town belonged to the Hoover Lumber Company.
Ditches are being dug around the town tonight to keep the fire from reaching the timber adjoining and thus far this effort has been successful.
The fire started from a hot box in the machinery in the Hoover sawmill.
So quickly did the flames that the people were forced to abandon most of their property to the flames or risk their lives in saving it.
The town of Hoover has a most narrow escape from destruction two weeks ago from a big forest fire, which started at a logging camp just across the river from the mill. Strenuous efforts of a big brigade of fire fighters saved it then only to have it destroyed today by a fire which started in the mill itself.
The village of Hoover was built around the Hoover sawmill, which had a capacity of 40,000 feet a day, and employed a big crew of men in the mill, yards and nearby logging camps." (Roseburg Review)
The big sawmill of the Hoover Lumber Company, the entire lumber yard, the hotel and several bunkhouses and residences have been burned, and the latest reports received here stated that practically all other buildings in the little village were burning and in probability there would be scarcely a house left.
The loss will probably reach $100,000. Practically every building in the town belonged to the Hoover Lumber Company.
Ditches are being dug around the town tonight to keep the fire from reaching the timber adjoining and thus far this effort has been successful.
The fire started from a hot box in the machinery in the Hoover sawmill.
So quickly did the flames that the people were forced to abandon most of their property to the flames or risk their lives in saving it.
The town of Hoover has a most narrow escape from destruction two weeks ago from a big forest fire, which started at a logging camp just across the river from the mill. Strenuous efforts of a big brigade of fire fighters saved it then only to have it destroyed today by a fire which started in the mill itself.
The village of Hoover was built around the Hoover sawmill, which had a capacity of 40,000 feet a day, and employed a big crew of men in the mill, yards and nearby logging camps." (Roseburg Review)