The History of Roseboro Lumber Company
How a Hardworking Lumber Company Survived and Thrived Into the
Twenty-First Century
By Gail Wells
Before the stores and houses and sawmills were here, before the leagues of sportsfishermen in their drift boats, before the paved streets, before the bridges, the streetcars, the rairoads; before the filbert orchards and the hop yards; before the Missourians and Kansans trudging west over the Applegate Trail, even before the Kalapuya people, there were the trees. Douglas-firs and hemlocks 300 feet tall and 27 feet around the trunk, rearing up from thickets of vine maple and salmonberry, standing for four hundred years. And then, toppled by wind or fire, sliding into the rivers, decaying into duff, and making way for younger giants to succeed them.