TAHKENITCH TIMBER COMPANY
Douglas County - Kroll
April 18, 1920: "A big logging operation is that of the Tahkenitch Lumber Company recently organized with W. F. McGregor of Astoria as president. The company bought a large tract of timber on Lake Tahkenitch and is opening a big camp at Kroll, a station seven mills north of Reedsport on the Coos Bay line of the Southern Pacific. Logs will be shipped by rail to the Coquille lumber mills at Coquille. When sufficient timber has been cleared away to making a building site the company intends erecting a lumber mill at Kroll, but until this time will ship the logs." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
July 1920: "The Lake Timber Co., Astoria, Ore., organized by W. F. McGregor, Frank Patton and R. K. Booth, has purchased approximately 500 million feet of timber in Douglas County. Logging operations will be carried on in conjunction with those of the Tahkenitch Timber Co., Astoria, of which Mr. McGregor is president. Operations for both companies will be managed by James Manary, who built the Lewis & Clark Railroad for the government during the war. About 65 per cent of the timber is spruce, and the remainder Douglas fir. The price paid was between $3 and $4 a thousand feet. Mr. McGregor has been in the spruce trade 40 years. The Astoria Box Co., of which he is president, is cutting spruce exclusively. The Tahkenitch Timber Co., whose camp address is Kroll, operates one side and uses three donkey engines. It has been shipping by rail 100,000 feet of logs per day to the Coquille Lumber Co., Coquille. Ore." (The Timberman)