Spooner Area was named for Michele E. Spooner, a French Canadian entrepreneur who, with others, helped establish the wood and lumber industry that supplied the needs of the Comstock mines and mills. In 1868, Spooner became a partner with Oliver and John Lonkey, the Elliot Brothers, Henry M. Yerington, William Fairburn, and Simon Dubois in the Summit Fluming Company and operated a shingle mill and sawmill. In 1870, Yerington, Bliss & Company took over the Summit Fluming Company. In 1873, another sawmill was erected at Spooner Meadows, and later that year all the mills were taken over by the Carson & Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company. Headquartered at Glenbrook, this company became the largest of the three huge combines supplying wood and lumber to the Comstock.