ST. HELENS TIE & TIMBER COMPANY
Sauvies Island
October 1, 1920: "St. Helens is to have two more important industries. One of them is a tie and timber mill which is now being built on Sauvies Island at the Shipyard site. The concern, which is to be incorporated as the St. Helens Tie and Timber Company and capitalized at $25,000 will erect and operate a mill. Some of the machinery, such as boilers, engines, shafting, etc, at the shipyard will be used, and the machinery being on the ground, will be ready for installation when the work has progressed. E. C. Stanwood, former sheriff of the county, and recently manager of the Brownsville Lumber Company, is to be manager of the mill and he has charge of the building and installation of the machinery. He thinks that the mill will be in operation within the next 90 days. A force of men is now at work putting up the structure which will be 32 feet wide by 120 feet long. As soon as the building is complete, the machinery will be placed. Mr. Stanwood states that operation of the mill will require twenty-five or thirty men and if a night shift is put on, the force will be doubled. He is rushing the construction work and wants to get the mill started as soon as possible." (St. Helens Mist)
October 22, 1920: "E. C. Stanwood, who has charge of the construction of the mill of the St. Helens Tie and Timber company, reports that good progress is being made on the building of the mill. The frame work has been completed, the structure is roofed in and some of the machinery has been installed. If the work can be continued as rapidly as it has been, Mr. Stanwood thinks that the mill will be operating on or before December 1st." (St. Helens Mist)
{January 7, 1920: "E. C. Stanwood, superintendent of the St. Helens Tie & Timber company is proud of the record which the little mill has made. For the past several days the average cut has been 34,500 feet per day and Mr. Stanwood thinks that when the mill is running smoothly and has worked off the newness, that the daily output will be about 38,000 to 40,000 feet per day. The mill has been operated for only a week but the daily average cut has demonstrated that it was properly constructed. Twenty men are employed at the mill." (St. Helens Mist)}