TOWNSEND RY TIMBER RY Timber Sells Livingston business - Townsend Property Not Included
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Nancy Marks, Reporter
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TOWNSEND RY TIMBER RY Timber Sells Livingston business - Townsend Property Not Included
Nancy Marks
Reporter
Ry-Timber company of Livingston has signed a purchase and sales agreement with Sun Mountain Lumber of Deer Lodge. The contract does not include RY Timber’s former sawmill near Townsend on Canton Lane.
RY-Timber Manager Dan Richards announced Thursday the contract had been signed and Sun Mountain would take over operations on August 1st. He did not disclose the purchase price. Fifty persons are still employed by RY-Timber cleaning up the mill building whose roof burned in a fire earlier in the year. He said there are broken pipes to be fixed and getting the planer up and running will take place next week.
As to whether Sun Mountain will continue employment for the fifty workers, Richards said each person will be interviewed. “ I assume everyone will stay on; I hope so,” he said.
The Townsend property is still offered for sale. The 117-acre property continues to be dismantled by the winner of the contract, Salmon River Forest Products of Salmon, Idaho, according to owner Britt McFarland. A security worker is the sole worker at the facility currently.
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Image 1 Caption: Townsend’s RY Timber property remains abandoned.
Image 2 Caption: Lumber mill equipment in the process of being dismantled by Salmon, Idaho lumber mill.
