The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-02-05
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VI. Davis al the business houses
cIozed a I ?. II. on Thursday.
VI. Davis had had trouble With his
hear foI some time bu; being sensitive
about Il none but his intimate friends
and his family really knew his con
dition.
January Z year ago he had severe
attack and went TO southern California,
bu. not liking the climate ne came
back 10 Seattle where ne remained
until in June last, when ne vas brought
here in private car and remained
until he died. He seemed to Ike the
climate and remarked that It did him
good to hear the noise made by the
big mill which was built under his
supervision, a sound which had been
I familiar one to him for over thirty-fye
years. At times he would improve
and some hopes we're entertained that
he might recover and resume the active
management Of the large interests Of the
Lamb Davis Lumber Co.
Mr.. Davis came to LeayenEorth
from Clinton, Iowa, in 1908, where
the Lamb family had been extensively
engaged in the saw mill business for
more than two generations and in whose
employ Mr.. Davis had been for over
thirty-fye years. For many years pre-
yious to 1908 Mr.. Davis had been
general manager of all the Lamb inter
ests, which included four large saw
mills at Clinton, a steamboat line on
the Mississippi river, gas light plant,
machine shops and other minor enter
prises. With the decline of the saw
mill business some ten years ago owing
to the timber on the upper Mississippi
river being exhausted, the Lambs
began TO look out for a new field for
their enterprise and decided to locate
at this place, when the Lamb-Davis
Lumber Co. was formed, OF which Mr..
Davis was the junior member, and made
treasurer and general manager.
In 1908 the company bought some
sixty sections OF timber land from the
Northern Pacific railroad, the land lying
in the vicinity Of Lake Wenatchee.
The erection Of the present plant be-
gan Immediately afterwards, and was
completed in some eighteen months
remaining a monument 10 Mr.. Davis |
skill and judgement as a practical saw
mill man. It IS one Of the best equip J