Pyramid Lumber Mill, the largest employer in Seeley Lake, has been in operation since 1949. Now, only one other lumber mill - Stoltze Land and Lumber Co. in Colombia Falls - hasn't closed down or changed ownership in the last 100 years.
Pyramid Lumber Mill announced on March 14 that it will cease operations and close, ending 75-years in operation as a family-owned business and four generations as Seeley Lake's largest employer.
In a press release from the mill, Pyramid Lumber listed labor shortages, lack of housing, rising costs, "plummeting" lumber prices and cost of living in western Montana as factors that "crippeled Pyramid's ability to operate." The company's board of directors and shareholders voted unanimously at their late-February board meeting to close the mill and shut down operations.
The press release outlined th...
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