Building History

The pulp and paper plant of the Pacific Paperboard Company opened in 1924. Frederick Apke, Carol Colver, and Bernard Goldhammar, writing for the Bonneville Power Administation in 1944, characterized the plant's operations: "The Pacific Paperboard Company was established in Longview in 1924 with a daily capacity of 30 tons of mechanical pulp and 52 tons of paperboard. In 1943 the capacity was doubled. This plant uses about 90 percent waste paper shipped in from Northwest cities and 10 percent logs and pulp. Its products, sold in the Pacific Northwest, are egg cartons, laundry boxes, and other boxboard." (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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