WESTERN LUMBER COMPANY
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Lane County - Westfir
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August 23, 1923: “A temporary school building will be erected at Westfir, seat of the new Western Lumber company's $1,000,000 sawmill near Oakridge, for the children of company hands.” (The Drain Enterprise)
September 13, 1923: “The new sawmill erected at Westfir by the Western Lumber company, where Colonel George H. Kelly and associates are preparing to establish a large lumber plant, is in operation.” (The Drain Enterprise)
September 27, 1923: “Active preparation for the logging of its first unit of more than 800,000,000 feet of timber acquired by the Western Lumber company in the Oakridge region in the Cascade national forest has been going forward, and the mill, with a daily capacity of 1,00,000 feet, will be ready probably to begin cutting next June. Meanwhile a temporary sawmill with a capacity of 50,000 feet is nearing completion and will be used to saw timbers for the main mill and other development work.” (The Drain Enterprise)
November 1926: "Western Lumber Co., Westfir, will increase the capacity of the plant to a minimum of 50,000,000 feet of lumber annually. M. C. Woodward, of Silver Falls Timber Co., Silverton, has acquired an interest in Western Lumber Co. and has been made president, succeeding Geo. H. Kelly, who will become chairman of board of directors." (The Timberman)
November 25, 1932: "Sawed nearly in two when he fell into a saw at the mill of the Western Lumber Co. at Westfir Wednesday, William Sorenson is in a Eugene hospital. His condition is grave.
Sorenson was caught in the saw which cut across his abdomen, severing arteries and causing great loss of blood." (Medford Mail Tribune)
Sorenson was caught in the saw which cut across his abdomen, severing arteries and causing great loss of blood." (Medford Mail Tribune)
Continued to: Westfir Lumber Company