University of Wyoming
The Otto Lumber Company was incorporated by Otto Gramm in 1920. The company provided ties for the Union Pacific Railroad. In the 1940s the Otto Lumber Company was owned by Denver businessmen. They sold it to Cook Lumber Company in Fort Collins, Colorado which operated as Big Horn Lumber Company. They retained the Otto Lumber Company name and hired a Mr. Flater as manager to oversee its logging activities in the Roosevelt National Forest near Sand Creek and run the office in Laramie, Wyoming. By the 1960s Mr. Flater was the owner/manager of the company. The company operated temporary portable sawmills and had the logs hauled into Laramie to be planed and sold.
The Otto Lumber Company collection contains company ledgers (1946-1966), and photographs of loggers working in the Roosevelt National Forest near Sand Creek (1950).
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
There are no known other archival collections created by the Otto Lumber Company at the date of processing.
The collection was received from Jacqueline J. Bath in 2002.
The collection was processed by Beth Kordus in August 2002. The finding aid was encoded by D. Claudia Thompson in November 2020.
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.