Records 1901-1979

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Records 1901-1979

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Correspondence, financial records, contracts and specifications, maps, blueprints, photographs and other records of a sawmill, logging and lumbering company; also included are records ofsubsidiaries and affiliates such as Potlatch Mercantile Company, Potlatch Townsite Department, and the company town of Potlatch; also the Washington, Idaho and Montana Railway Company.

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Washington, Idaho and Montana Railroad.

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Potlatch Lumber Company

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The Potlatch Lumber Company was incorporated in 1903 and acquired large timber holdings in Latah County, Idaho. In 1905-06 it constructed the company town of Potlatch and the largest white pine sawmill in the world in that community. In 1931 the Potlatch Lumber Company merged with the Clearwater and Edward Rutledge Timber Companies to form Potlatch Forests, Inc.; the name was later changed to Potlatch Corporation. The company sold the town of Potlatch in the 1950s and in 1983 closed and dismantl...

Potlatch Mercantile Company.

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