Written by Cain Allen, © Oregon Historical Society, 2003. “David Douglas Discovers the Sugar Pine.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 101, 2000: 88-95. “Sugar Pine Door and Lumber Company.” The Columbia River and Pacific Northwest Timberbeast 4, 1985: 6-8.ĭouglas, David. Needles shorter than the species are bright green. He retired to Portland in 1917, where he died four years later.įurther Reading: Miller, Dudley. Not only is it the world’s most massive species of pine, it also produces the world’s longest conesand you can find it in several places in the Los Padres National Forest. A unique pine found as a witchs broom by Dan Spear in the San Bernadino Mts. Miller went on to serve as consul-general in Manchuria, Japan, and Ireland. They justified this practice by citing the high railroad rates, which discouraged the shipping of less valuable lumber.ĭespite local dissatisfaction with its business practices, the company continued to expand into the early decades of the twentieth century, producing, among other things, doors, windows, sashes, boxes, and counters. Of all the worlds eighty or ninety species of pine trees, the Sugar Pine (Pinus Lambertiana) is king, surpassing all others, not merely in size but in. The company reputedly sold inferior lumber to its local customers-who nicknamed it the “Sugar Pine Board and Knot Company”-saving the best product for out-of-state markets. Miller’s former company was also not without controversy. His term was short-only eleven months-but highly controversial. Henry Miller managed the company for ten years before moving to Corvallis to assume the presidency of the State Agricultural College, now known as Oregon State University. Like many businesses of the day, the company pandered to the rampant anti-Chinese sentiment of the 1880s and 1890s by boasting in its ads: “No Chinese Employed!” By 1886, the Sugar Pine Door and Lumber Company exported an average of four carloads of lumber a week, each containing 6,000 board feet. The Oregon and California Railroad had laid tracks through the small community two years earlier, connecting it to markets and ports in the Willamette Valley and California. Miller (1854-1921) organized the Sugar Pine Door and Lumber Company in the budding town of Grants Pass. Like other white pines, sugar pine has soft, straight-grained wood that is highly valued by timbermen. Preferring moist sites with plenty of sun, they can be found from the mountains of central Oregon to Baja California. The Scottish botanist David Douglas described the sugar pine ( Pinus lambertiana) as the “most princely of the genus.” Sugar pines are the tallest pines in the world, often growing to heights of 200 feet or more.
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