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The Mount Emily Lumber Company operated in La Grande, Oregon from 1925 until 1956. After becoming a subsidiary of the Valsetz Lumber Company in 1955, the name was changed to Templeton Lumber Company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="August Stange and Stange Manor" An interview with Jeanette Baum )〕 In 1960, the company was again sold and the name changed to Boise Cascade, La Grande. ==History== Early in the 20th century August H. Stange, owner of the Stange Sash, Door, and Blind Company in Merrill, Wisconsin, began to understand that the forests around Merrill could no longer support his need for lumber. For economic reasons, loggers had clear-cut their land without reforestation, and the demand for timber was approaching its supply.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Tree Tax is Doom of State Forests" March 22, 1927 - Ironwood Daily Globe )〕 On average, the Merrill plant needed 125,000 board feet of lumber each day. Stange may also have known that the United States Forest Service had begun to award large timber contracts to lumber companies in the Pacific Northwest. For example, the Oregon Lumber Company would soon receive an award of sale of 124 million board feet of lumber in 1916.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Early Timber Harvesting in the Blue Mountains," Compiled by David C. Powell, June 2008 )〕 Stange had been impressed with the quality of Pacific Northwest lumber that arrived by Union Pacific railroad, and in 1910 he and his son, August J. Stange, ventured west to survey the forests around Mt. Emily in Eastern Oregon. With his father's money, A. J. Stange formed the Mt. Emily Timber Co. and purchased in excess of 100,000 acres of forest land, estimated to contain over one billion board feet of lumber. He lived in La Grande, Oregon until 1913. During that time he prepared to build a sawmill with access to the Union Pacific railroad. From there he would send lumber by rail to his father’s door and sash company. When his land acquisitions had concluded, Stange returned to Wisconsin to continue work in his father's business interests. He owned a land speculation company and worked for the Charles Kinzel Logging Company, owned by his brother-in-law, until 1920. In that year he returned to La Grande and created the Mount Emily Lumber Company from the assets of the Mt. Emily Timber Co. The company officers were * August J. Stange, President (President and General Manager of the Union Land Co. of Merril, WI, Officer of Charles Kinzel Lumber Co., and son of August H. Stange) * August H. Stange (father of August J. Stange, owner of Stange Sash, Door, and Blind Co. and officer of the First National Bank of Eagle River, Wisconsin) 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography Index for History of Lincoln, Oneida and Vilas Counties )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of First National Bank of Eagle River, Wisconsin )〕 * Charles H. Stange (vice president of Stange Sash, Door, and Blind Co. and son of August H. Stange) * Charles J. Kinzel (owner of Charles Kinzel Logging Co. and son-in-law of August H. Stange) * Leslie K. Kinzel (son of Charles J. Kinzel) * E. W. Ellis (President of Wisconsin-Michigan Lumber Co., president of the First National Bank of Eagle River, Wisconsin, and son-in-law of August H. Stange).〔〔 Only August J. Stange and Leslie K. Kinzel relocated to Oregon when the new company began. The other officers remained in Wisconsin. The sawmill was sited next to La Grande’s failed sugar mill, part of the Amalgamated Sugar Company.〔 p. 3〕 The first log entered the mill on November 15, 1925. The log pond of the new lumber company leached various toxins, and nearby residents complained for years that they could taste the log pond in their drinking water. In 1925 the company purchased The Grande Ronde Lumber Co. and its short-line railroad.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Grande Ronde Lumber Co )〕 Railroad access enabled the movement of logs from Mt. Emily to the sawmill in La Grande. The rated capacity of the new sawmill was 50,000,000 board feet per year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Mount Emily Lumber Company )〕 By comparison, the Wisconsin-Michigan Lumber Co. milled about 15,000,000 board feet per year. Charles Kinzel continued his logging operations in Wisconsin for a time, ending his own rail operations in 1926 and closing his sawmill in 1930.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wisconsin Logging Railroads )〕 The 1939 Polk Directory placed him in La Grande and revealed that he had become president of the Mount Emily Lumber Company. Former president August J. Stange had been demoted to vice president. Upon the death of Kinzel in 1942, Stange was once again named president of the company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Emily Lumber Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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