Building History

The Longview Fibre Company had a working affiliation with the Long-Bell Lumber Company Lumber Mill in Longview, WA. It erected a Longview pulp mill c.1927. A 1944 report produced by the Bonneville Power Administration said of this plant: ""Pulp and paper manufacture is second in importance only to lumber production [in Cowlitz County]. In 1944, the Longview Fibre Company had a capacity of 450 tons of mechanical and unbleached sulphate pulp and 450 tons of paper and container board per 24-hour day. This mill has gradually expanded its capacity from 100 tons in 1927. It obtains chips from the Long-Bell mill and pulp logs on the open market and from its own holdings. Recently the operators have acquired timber in Clatsop and Lincoln Counties. Its chief products are boxes and kraft and wrapping paper for Pacific Coast markets." (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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