INMAN, POULSON & COMPANY
Multnomah County - East Side
January 22, 1900: "The past week a large force of men have been engaged in completely overhauling and repairing the big sawmill plant of Inman, Poulson & Co., and about a week more will be required to finish the radical improvements under way there. Not since the mill was rebuilt, after the fire which destroyed it, has it been so thoroughly repaired, and when it starts up it will be practically a new mill. The plant covers several acres, and the ground surrounding the mill building, where the lumber is handled, is being replanked with 4 x 12 lumber, many thousands of feet of material being required to cover the acres of space. The yard is pretty well cleared of lumber at present, and this work can go forward without interference. Inside the mill looks it had been turned upside down. Here every part is receiving an overhauling. In the sawing department, where the saws rip up the big logs into lumber, new timbers are being placed. In the engine and boiler department a complete transformation is under way. The furnaces under the battery of boilers are being repaired with new fire clay. The big engine has been placed on a new concrete foundation and thoroughly repaired. At one end of the engine-room the concrete foundation is under construction. On the north side of the mill a new and more powerful 'hog'---a machine for grinding up little and big blocks of wood for the City & Suburban plant boilers---is being placed in position, also a new system of conveyors or chutes, for carrying the ground up fuel, sawdust and shavings to the fuel reservoir of the power plant. The old machine for grinding up the blocks has been racked to pieces with dyspepsia, superinduced by eating too much wood, and had to be thrown aside for a new one. Long chutes extend from the 'hog,' the planer-room and also from the sawing room to carry off the surplus material. The fuel is store up in a tall building alongside of the boiler-house of the power plant of the City & Suburban Company, and from there conveyed to the boilers of this plant by a conveyor, which feeds the furnaces automatically. These improvements extend to the water edge, and the runway for hauling the logs into the mill has been strengthened, and a deep ditch has been dug from the engine department to the river for sewerage and other purposes. The work of repair was in progress yesterday, and will likely be several days before the mill will resume operations." (Morning Oregonian)
August 28, 1900: "The funeral of Marcus H. Duntley, who died from injuries received in an accident at Inman, Poulson & Co.'s sawmill, Saturday, took place yesterday from his home at 432 Second street. Members of the Woodmen of the World and Odd Fellows orders, of which the deceased was a member, attended. Many employes of the sawmill also attended the funeral.
The verdict of the Coroner's jury was that he came to his death by being drawn under a pulley by a broken belt." (Morning Oregonian)
The verdict of the Coroner's jury was that he came to his death by being drawn under a pulley by a broken belt." (Morning Oregonian)
April 4, 1902: "The coroner's jury in the case of Charles C. Holland, who was knocked into the river at Inman Poulson's lumber mill, gave a verdict of accidental death. His skull was fractured by being struck by a piece of lumber." (The Evening Journal)
November 26, 1903: "Inman-Poulson & Co., East Side, capacity 400,000 feet every 20 hours."
"Inman-Poulson & Co.---400 men employed. Robert D. Inman, president; George Rae, vice-president; John Poulson, secretary and manager." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
"Inman-Poulson & Co.---400 men employed. Robert D. Inman, president; George Rae, vice-president; John Poulson, secretary and manager." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
March 23, 1911: "Sam Hoover has obtained a logging contract with the Inman Poulson Co., of Portland, and last week moved with his family to a point across the river above Butteville." (Aurora Observer)