Northwestern Lumber Company, 1916-1926
Content Description
The papers of the Craig Mountain Lumber Company are contained in twenty-eight large file boxes; in addition there are twelve shelves of journals and ledgers. Material relating to subsidiary companies, the Craig Mountain Railway, Winchester Townsite Company and Oxbow Ranch Company, are also found in this group.
Among the items included in this collection are blueprints of buildings and machinery, insurance claims for injured personnel, monthly and yearly financial statements, contracts, notices of stockholders' meetings, articles of incorporation, and railway rules and regulations. There are also two files detailing Craig Mountain Lumber Company's application for a $250,000 loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1934. Another interesting portion of this group is the ten years of correspondence between Northwestern Lumber Company and Craig Mountain Lumber Company, the former trying to sell its Nez Perce and Lewis County timber holdings to the latter.
Dates
- Creation: 1916-1926
Creator
- From the Collection: Craig Mountain Lumber Company (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 73 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Description
Shortly after its incorporation in 1907 the Northwestern Lumber Company purchased over 13,000 acres of timber land in Nez Perce and Lewis Counties, Idaho. On February 26, 1916, W.C. Hammer, Secretary of the Bondholders' Protective Committee of the Northwestern Lumber Company wrote a letter to C.P. Lindsley of Craig Mountain Lumber Company offering this land for sale. Correspondence between Hammer and E.H. Van Ostrand, president of Craig Mountain, and occasionally a third party, continued until a mutually agreeable price was reached in 1925. In 1926 there is some correspondence relative to clearing the Northwestern title to the land before finalization of the sale.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Repository