TOMLIN BOX FACTORY
Medford
April 8, 1918: "The Tomlin Box Company purchased last week 1,125,000 feet of sugar and white pine lumber from the Applegate Lumber Company. This is the entire stock of lumber on hand at the company's mill." (Ashland Tidings)
November 1926: "Tomlin Box Co., Medford, Ore., cut 10,000,000 feet in the sawmill before it burned, September 23. It will be rebuilt. A seven-foot band, edger trimmer and carriage will be purchased. Electric power is employed. The box factory is operating steadily and will work up 20,000,000 feet this season."
"Tomlin Box Co., Medford, whose mill burned recently, will have its new mill ready for operation early in the new year." (The Timberman)
"Tomlin Box Co., Medford, whose mill burned recently, will have its new mill ready for operation early in the new year." (The Timberman)
December 10, 1926: "The Tomlin Box Factory is an electricity operated plant with a capacity of 62,500 feet of shook on one shift, and is now operating two shifts per day. It is also served by the Medford logging railroad." (Central Point American)
February 3, 1928: "Earle Simmons of Pumpkin Center has the contract to load the logs the Skeeter brothers will truck down from Wagner Gap on the cars to be shipped to the Tomlin mill in Medford. He bought a loading donkey from the coast and has placed it on the vacant ground east of the depot ready to load as soon as the road permits hauling." (The Ashland Register)
March 2, 1928: "Earl Simmons loaded his first car of logs Tuesday, ready for shipment to the Tomlin mill." (The Ashland Register)