J. D. MEYER & COMPANY
Lentz
August 20, 1903: "At Lentz the sawmill of J. D. Meyer & Company is being completed on Johnson Creek. The machinery is all placed. It will have a cutting capacity of 30,000 feet of lumber a day. The people of Lentz are pleased over the prospects of the early completion of this sawmill. Logs will be delivered to this mill by cars on the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company from the interior. Mr. Meyer first thought of building his mill on his timber land on Deep Creek, where he owns a large body of fine timber land, but changed the location to Lentz for the reason that he can dispose of all the slabwood in their neighborhood and by shipment to Portland." (Morning Oregonian)
September 14, 1903: "The sawmill of the J. D. Meyer & Co. is being completed at Johnson Creek, at Lentz. Mr. Meyer said he had expected to start up the first of October, but owing to delay in getting machinery this cannot be done. The mill building is 121 x 32 and two stories high. Besides the main building there will be the boiler and engine house, and a 40-foot annex for planers and sized lumber. The mill can cut 40,000 feet of lumber per day, but Mr. Meyer says he expects to turn out an average of 30,000 feet per day.
Logs will be brought in on the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company's line, a distance of 15 miles, and delivered in a pond formed by an arm of Johnson Creek. The lumber yard has an area of five acres.
Mr. Meyer has been in the mill business on Johnson Creek for the past 35 years. His old mill was located two mills east of Lentz on Johnson Creek. Several times it was threatened with fire, but each time it was saved from destruction by the hardest kind of exertion. He has located the new sawmill where there will be little danger from fire. The lumber yard will be piped throughout, and provision made to fight fire should it be necessary. A side track will be laid to the mill from the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company's line." (Morning Oregonian)
Logs will be brought in on the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company's line, a distance of 15 miles, and delivered in a pond formed by an arm of Johnson Creek. The lumber yard has an area of five acres.
Mr. Meyer has been in the mill business on Johnson Creek for the past 35 years. His old mill was located two mills east of Lentz on Johnson Creek. Several times it was threatened with fire, but each time it was saved from destruction by the hardest kind of exertion. He has located the new sawmill where there will be little danger from fire. The lumber yard will be piped throughout, and provision made to fight fire should it be necessary. A side track will be laid to the mill from the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company's line." (Morning Oregonian)