meanwhileongiphy:My Great, Great grandmother (left) and her best friend at the time in rural Hines,
meanwhileongiphy:My Great, Great grandmother (left) and her best friend at the time in rural Hines, Oregon. taken sometime during the mid 1920’s. via r/TheWayWeWere by @luxury_death I love this photo. I’m assuming it is a “Real Photo Postcard” from the era. the original was posted on Reddit by user @luxury_death . This is the earliest photo I have ever seen of what would become The Edward Hines Lumber Mill. This photo would actually predate the City of Hines and would have been taken sometime after May of 1927. That is when The Herrick Lumber Company broke ground on the lumber mill at this location according The Gate City Journal of Nyssa, Oregon on May 13, 1927. Herrick Lumber Company purchased the Bear Valley Timber Sale in April of 1923. They brought the rail line into Burns and on to the South where they planned on establishing a mill. By 1927 Herrick Lumber had nearly finished the line to Seneca in Grant County and had a partially finished mill along with a power house and mill pond. Financial difficulties had caused them to make slow progress on the project and as a result they missed several deadlines and deadline extentions. In December of 1927 the Foresest Service cancelled the contract with Herrick Lumber. The contract was given to Edward Hines Lumber and in October of 1928 Fred Herrick sold his mill site and the railroad to Hines Lumber Company of Chicago at a consideralble loss. Visit the following TrainWeb article for an in depth history of The Malheur Railroad and the Fred Herrick Lumber Company.The City of Hines wasn’t incorporporated until May of 1930 according to Oregon Encyclopedia’s article Hines and the Edward Hines Lumber Company by Marjorie Thelen. -- source link
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