TRUCKEE LUMBER COMPANY
Hobsonville
May 4, 1888: "Smith's saw mill, near Hobsonville, has been purchased by the Truckee Lumber Company. They intend to employ it principally in cutting spruce lumber for the San Francisco market. There is a great deal of fine tideland spruce along the rivers emptying into the bay, especially the Kilchis. This lumber is much used for boxes on account of its toughness and because it dies not impart a smell or taste to goods put in boxes made of it." (Morning Oregonian)
June 1, 1888: "The Truckee Lumber Company has bought the sawmill of Smith & Sons, at Tillamook, and will immediately increase its capacity and run it night and day. They have purchased two large vessels in San Francisco, and expect to do a big business." (The Oregon Register)
November 1899: “The sawmill and box factory plant of the Truckee Lumber Company, of San Francisco, at Hobsonville, Tillamook county, is one of the most complete and smartest mills to be found on the Oregon coast. This company has operated there for over ten years and claims to have an up-to-date fir mill, with a daily capacity of 75,000 feet, while its box factory and planing mill, run in connection, manufactures daily 35,000 feet. The bulk of the product is marketed in San Francisco and Los Angeles by a regular line of steam and sailing schooners. The company is now building a new steamer, with a carrying capacity of 100,000 feet, to be named the H. W. Kruger, and which will be ready for business about the first of next February.
The parent mill of the Truckee Lumber Company is located at Truckee, California, on the line of the Central Pacific Railroad, and while it is not run all the year round like the Hobsonville mill, during the season it is run day and night and turns out immense quantities of boxes and lumber of all descriptions, which are marketed to all the cities in the west. The average output of this mill is 12,000,000 feet, over one-half of which is manufactured unto sash, doors and boxes.
O. C. Haslett is president of the Truckee Lumber Company, with offices at No. 3 California street, San Francisco, while Leigh Jones represents them at Hobsonville and H. H. Seales at Truckee.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
The parent mill of the Truckee Lumber Company is located at Truckee, California, on the line of the Central Pacific Railroad, and while it is not run all the year round like the Hobsonville mill, during the season it is run day and night and turns out immense quantities of boxes and lumber of all descriptions, which are marketed to all the cities in the west. The average output of this mill is 12,000,000 feet, over one-half of which is manufactured unto sash, doors and boxes.
O. C. Haslett is president of the Truckee Lumber Company, with offices at No. 3 California street, San Francisco, while Leigh Jones represents them at Hobsonville and H. H. Seales at Truckee.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
February 1900: "The Truckee Lumber Company are installing the machinery in their new steamer W. H. Kruger, in San Francisco.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
February 1900: “Leigh Jones, the genial manager of the Truckee Mills at Hobsonville, has resigned his position and will leave for California. Mr. Jones will be succeeded by G. E. Sibly, who formerly managed the mill.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
February 8, 1900: "Another effort is being made to induce the merchants of this city to order their merchandise from San Francisco merchants, which some have been doing, owing to the delay in getting goods from Portland. One steamship company of San Francisco has promised to have two steamers running in a few weeks, one of which is now on the San Francisco-Tillamook run. That will mean a steamer every five days. They will carry lumber from the Truckee Lumber Company's mill, at Hobsonville." (Morning Oregonian)