Fortress of timber

The Gilchrist mill tells the continuing story of logging in the Northwest

By Rachel Odell / The Bulletin
March 23, 2003

GILCHRIST - In 1867, Frank W. Gilchrist, 22, began operating what became a successful timber mill near the banks of Lake Huron in Alpena, Mich.

Success there propelled him 45 years later to Laurel, Miss. And then, in 1938, he broke ground on a mill in Central Oregon in an area that was to be....

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