NIBLEY-MIMNAUGH LUMBER CO.
Wallowa
October 5, 1907: “The new saw mill to be located at Wallowa is a project of the Nibley-Mimnaugh Lumber company. Articles of incorporation have been filed at Salem, the capital stock being $150,000. The men principally interested are residents of Perry, although some Wallowa people are among the stockholders. The list includes C. W. and J. F. Nibley, Patrick, James and Charles Mimnaugh of Perry and E. A. Holmes, Charles A. Hunter, H. K. O'Brien, John McDonald and L. Couch of Wallowa. The plan of the company is to put up a single band mill at the beginning, to be enlarged later. The mill will have a capacity of 50,000 to 75,000 feet. There will also be a planing mill plant and the other usual accessories for a manufacturing concern of this kind. The company will build a logging road from Wallowa to its timber holdings. The logging railway will be of but three or four miles in length to start with, but will gradually be extended 10 to 12 miles.
It is claimed the mill will be in operation next summer.
The first meeting of the new company was held in the offices of Couch & McDonald Thursday night of last week. C. W. and J. F. Nibley of La Grande, P. Mimnaugh of Perry, E. A. Holmes and C. A. Hunter of Wallowa were elected directors. This board then chose C. W. Nibley president, P. Mimnaugh vice president, J. F. Nibley treasurer, J. H. Mimnaugh secretary.” (The News=Record)
It is claimed the mill will be in operation next summer.
The first meeting of the new company was held in the offices of Couch & McDonald Thursday night of last week. C. W. and J. F. Nibley of La Grande, P. Mimnaugh of Perry, E. A. Holmes and C. A. Hunter of Wallowa were elected directors. This board then chose C. W. Nibley president, P. Mimnaugh vice president, J. F. Nibley treasurer, J. H. Mimnaugh secretary.” (The News=Record)
September 10, 1908: “J. H. and Charles Mimnaugh are at Wallowa and have selected the site for the big saw mill that will be erected next year at the western edge of town. They will at once erect dwelling houses and move to Wallowa.” (The News Record)
February 10. 1909: “Neal Cameron is erecting a building near the Mimnaugh-Nibley mill preparatory to opening a boarding house for the mill hands.” (The News Record)
May 7, 1909: “Wallowa.---Work has commenced on the big Nibley-Mimnaugh Lumber company's sawmill at this place. It will be completed about July 1, and will have a capacity of 50,000 feet per day, will employ nearly 300 men and will represent an investment of $150,000. The company owns a vast body of timber north of this city, all of which will be milled here. Surveyors are now surveying a logging railroad to the company's holdings that will be constructed this year. Other buildings are being built. (The Glendale News)
June 12, 1909: “J. H. Mimnaugh, of the Nibley-Mimnaugh company of Wallowa, was here on business Thursday night. The company has its office, cookhouse and stables erected and work begun on the foundation of the mill. The machinery is ordered. It is hoped to begin operations late this fall.” (The News Record)
November 1909: "Nibley-Mimnaugh Lumber Co., Wallowa. have completed their mill." (The Timberman, Vol. 11, 1909-10)
November 26, 1909: “Wallowa.---The Nibley-Mimnaugh Lumber company's band mill, having a capacity of 50,000 feet per day, is completed. This mill, with nine smaller mills, will produce 30,000,000 feet of lumber annually, all of which will be marketed from this city.” (The Glendale News)
January 12, 1910: “In 1909 the chief advancement in the county was the lumber industry. At the beginning of the season there were only three small mills in the immediate vicinity of Wallowa; at the close of 1909 there were ten mills, many of which have a capacity of 20,000 feet per day. The largest of these mills is the Nibley-Mimnaugh Lumber company's mill, located in this city. It is a modern band mill, with a capacity of 50,000 feet per day. These mills will market more than 30,000,000 feet of lumber annually, all of which will be sent from Wallowa.” (The News Record)
May 20, 1910: “Wallowa---The first trainload of logs for the big Nibley-Mimnaugh Lumber company's mill has arrived at the mill. A large number of logs are banked out, ready to be delivered. The mill is ready. The mill has a capacity of 50,000 feet per day and is the largest of ten mills which will market a total of 30,000,000 feet of lumber here annually.” (The Glendale News)
April 12, 1911: “The Nibley-Mimnaugh saw mill at Wallowa started up Thursday of last week with a full crew.” (Enterprise News-Record)