Condon-Lane Boom and Lumber Company

Overview

Minute books of the J.L. Rumbarger Lumber Company, 1884-1910; the Condon-Lane Boom and Lumber Company, 1892-1910; and the Dry Fork Lumber Company, 1904-1910. These three companies had their central office in Philadelphia and were under the financial control of R.F. Whitmer. The collection also includes typescripts pertaining to the Dry Fork Lumber Company, William Whitmer & Sons, Parsons Pulp and Paper Company, J.L. Rumbarger Lumber Company, and the Holstein Lumber Company.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and business records while the company was operating near the present site of Cass. Subjects and topics covered are the Blackwater Lumber Company, Condon-Lane Boom and Lumber Company, Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, Greenbrier River, logging, lumber agents, Martin-Lane and Company, railroads, J.L. Rumbarger Lumber Company, R.M. Sutton Company, Stearns Manufacturing Company, Saint Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company, S.E. Slaymaker and Company, timberlands, West Spruce Lumber...