Ainslie Lumber Mill Resumes Production
After standing idle, the large mill near Chehalis is firing up its boilers, offering a vital economic lifeline to the community.
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F. S. Doembacher, owner of the furniture factory at Ainslie, was in town Tuesday. From him we learn that the big mill of the Ainslie Lumber Company was to start Wednesday. Work was also to be resumed in the logging camps. The business is being run by Mr. King of Portland, receiver of the company, for the benefit of creditors. H. B. Cole is in direct charge at Ainslie. The mill starting up will be good news to everyone in the south end of the county, as it employs about 300 men when it is in full blast.
“The mill starting up will be good news to everyone in the south end of the county, as it employs about 300 men when it is in full blast.”
Ainslie was a typical timber company town whose pulse was tied directly to the mill's operation. Today, as in 1892, rural Washington communities often struggle to balance the need for steady employment against the volatile nature of the extraction economy.
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