Industry
On May 31, 1889, Henry J. Crocker, Wellington Gregg, Thomas Bullock, and Charles Gardner formed the Westside Flume and Lumber Company at a total cost of 361,000.00 dollars. The mill was built and was in operation by the end of that year, and by 1900 it was producing 18,000 board feet of lumber per day. In 1925 Westside was sold to Pickering Lumber Co., and after the Depression in 1934 Westside was back in control and continued to operate until April 19, 1962, when a strike and a devastating fire shut the mill down for the last time.
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