KEY LUMBER COMPANY
Clackamas County - Molalla
July 1920: "The Key Lumber Co., Molalla, Ore., suffered the loss of its mill by fire on July 5. The loss was $13,000. Much of the lumber was saved." (The Timberman)
October 28, 1921: "Milling operations in the vicinity of Molalla and Mulino are showing considerable increased activity. At Molalla next week will mark the resumption of steady operations by the Key Lumber Company, whose daily output will later be increased to 35,000 feet by the installment of additional machinery in the local mill. The Willamette Valley Southern railroad, which has secured terminal rates, has agreed to build a siding at Molalla for lumber loading, according to Manager Key of the local mill.
Lumber shipments from thirteen of the eighteen small mills in the Molalla vicinity are handled by the Keys company, with the result that 287 cars of piling have been sent from here this year. California points have received most of the local output.
Few of the other sawmills near here have reopened since the slump.
According to Mr. Key, a mill situated on the railroad and receiving logs by the truck route can be operated more profitably than one which is established in a lumber belt, but which is forced to truck its finished lumber to the railroad. Mills in this territory have an average capacity ranging from 10,000 to 25,000 feet a day." (Oregon City Enterprise)
Lumber shipments from thirteen of the eighteen small mills in the Molalla vicinity are handled by the Keys company, with the result that 287 cars of piling have been sent from here this year. California points have received most of the local output.
Few of the other sawmills near here have reopened since the slump.
According to Mr. Key, a mill situated on the railroad and receiving logs by the truck route can be operated more profitably than one which is established in a lumber belt, but which is forced to truck its finished lumber to the railroad. Mills in this territory have an average capacity ranging from 10,000 to 25,000 feet a day." (Oregon City Enterprise)