To ship product Pope & Talbot acquired ships. In 1852, Pope & Talbot opened a lumberyard and at
Port Gamble, Washington started construction of a lumber mill and start the firm
Puget Mill Company. To feed the mill Pope & Talbot purchased timberland, by 1892 owning 186,000 acres. In 1925, the Puget Mill Company mill was sold to
Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company. In 1938, the Pope & Talbot families owned the mill again after McCormick was unable to make payments. In 1940, the Puget Mill Company was renamed Pope & Talbot, Inc. Pope & Talbot, Inc. was active in supporting the
World War II effort with lumber and ship. The mill ran 24/7 for the war. In 1963, Pope & Talbot exited the shipping trade and sold off the remaining four ships in the Pope & Talbot fleet. In 1972 Pope & Talbot went public, selling stocks. In 1978 Pope & Talbot open a
pulp plant in
Halsey, Oregon, kraft pulp mill. In 1992, Pope & Talbot purchased a sawmill in
Castlegar, British Columbia. Sawmill at Port Gamble is closed in 1995, after 142 years of use. In 1999, Pope & Talbot purchased Harmac Pacific in
Nanaimo, British Columbia. In 2001, Pope & Talbot purchased
Norske Skog Canada's Mackenzie Pulp mill in northern British Columbia. Pope & Talbot as both a pulp / paper line and lumber - wood line. At the time the company receiver divested lumber mill operations their mills were one in South Dakota and three in British Columbia. Pope & Talbot went bankrupt in 2008 and the lumber mills were divested. A timberland investment and management company named Pope Resources was spun off. In 2020 Pope Resources was acquired by a larger East Coast based lumber company
Rayonier. Rayonier was originally also founded on the Olympic Peninsula.
The Legend of White Gold (1988) Joseph Rassulo directed a
television movie starring Richard Glover as Andrew Pope and
Nick Young as
Fred Talbot. It is a 20 minute promotional spoof of
John Ford western films produced for Pope & Talbot by
Turtledove Clemens, which won a bronze medal at the 32nd annual International Film & TV Festival of New York and Best in the West award from the Business and Professional Advertising Association. ==World War II==