by Web Editor | Sep 2, 2016 | News
Oregon’s Hampton Lumber Acquires Banks Lumber Mill Hampton Lumber has acquired the assets of the Banks Lumber Mill, just months after the Washington County mill had laid off its employees and ceased operations. Portland-based Hampton plans to upgrade the mill...
by Web Editor | Apr 18, 2016 | News
Oregon’s Warm Springs Forest Products Sawmill Closing Fifty years after acquiring a lumber mill on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, tribal leaders announced the permanent closure and impending bankruptcy and liquidation of the Warm Springs Forest Products...
by Web Editor | Jul 29, 2015 | News
Seneca Sawmill Co. announced Friday it has started a $60 million upgrade of its west Eugene lumber mill. Paving crews were flattening a corner lot of Seneca’s Highway 99 mill site Friday to prepare for construction of two dry kilns, part of what Seneca described as a...
by Web Editor | Jul 27, 2015 | News
Voters in Banks brought about 200 acres of additional land into city limits last November and they’ll decide on two more property annexations in September 2015. This time around, though, the land being voted on totals only about 8 acres, and none of it is slated...
by Web Editor | Mar 7, 2014 | News
Mark Elston followed his father into the timber industry back when business was booming. “When I started, you could really mess things up and still make good money,” he said. “You can’t do that anymore.” Elston runs a lumber mill in...