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Article: Logging off
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- Missoulian
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- March 23, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright The Missoulian Mar 23, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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BONNER - Davy Sheets drove his load of logs up to the scales at the Stimson Lumber Co. mill Friday afternoon, just as he'd brought so many loads before.
This time was different.
The 28 Ponderosa pine and fir logs aboard the Drummond trucker's trailer marked what could be the last delivered to the Bonner mill.
The first arrived, by river, in the spring of 1886.
At 2 p.m. Friday, Stimson cut off all deliveries in anticipation of a mid-May shutdown of its sawmill.
Stimson Vice President Jeff Webber told the 100 or so workers remaining at the plant on Tuesday that the closure is expected to last a year or more. He didn't discount the possibility that his company will never reopen the mill. ...