Lumber company in Eureka, Mont.
The Eureka Lumber Company operated in Eureka, Mont., from 1909 to about 1925. It became successively the P.L. Howe Lumber Company and the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co. The company usually had several large logging camps of its own in operation. In 1919, a railroad spur was run into the country southeast of Eureka and railroad engines hauled logs to the mill. The sawmill ran two shifts; the planer ran one--each shift employed 100 to 150 men. The planer burned down once and was rebuilt. Between 1917 and 1919 the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) agitated for better working conditions and wages, eventually striking. Feelings ran so high that National Guardsmen were dispatched to the area. No violence occurred. A strike and the general national economy closed the mill for good around 1925. Assets and equipment were still being sold in the 1930s.
From the description of Records of Eureka Lumber Company, 1910-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70962023
