Building History

The Weyerhaeuser Timber Company first built a lumber sawmill in Longview, WA, in 1927, rivallilng in scale the existing Long-Bell Lumber Company sawmill there, completed in 1924. Weyerhaeuser added a pulp mill to its Longview facilities by 1931. A 1944 Bonneville Power Administration report on electric power usage in Cowlitz County, WA, said of this Weyerhaeuser Pulp Mill: "The Weyerhaeuser pulp plant at Longview was built in 1931. In 1944, it had a capacity of 250 tons of bleached sulphite pulp, about 20 percent more than the 1939 capacity. Hemlock logs, the principal species used, are obtained from the company's own timber holdings. Most of the pulp is sold in the East and Midwest." (See Frederick Apke, Carol Colver, and Bernard Goldhammar, Bonneville Power Administration, The Economic Base for Power Markets in Cowlitz County, Washington, [Washington, DC: US Department of the Interior, Bonneville Power Administration, 09/1944], p. 16.)

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