The founding partners were Michael J. Scanlon, Anson S. Brooks, Dwight F. Brooks, Lester R. Brooks, and Henry E. Gibson. The newly formed company had its headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a large milling facility near Cloquet, Minnesota. Beginning in 1906, Brook-Scanlon started buying timber land in Florida. Two years later, the company began buying timber land in British Columbia as well. When standing timber in Minnesota became hard to find, the Cloquet mill was closed and the milling equipment was shipped west to a new mill site in British Columbia. In 1911, the company began looking at timber resources in central Oregon. In 1915, the company purchased of timber land in central Oregon. The following year, Brooks-Scanlon opened a sawmill on the east bank of the Deschutes River on the outskirts of Bend. Within a year of opening, the Brooks-Scanlon sawmill was one of the two largest producers of pine lumber in the world. Over the following decades, Brooks-Scanlon bought additional tracts of central Oregon timber land from other forest land owners. In 1969, Brooks-Scanlon created a subsidiary corporation called Brooks Resources. The new company was created to develop Brooks-Scanlon property for uses other than timber production. The first project undertaken by Brooks Resources was the development Black Butte Ranch, begun in 1970. Black Butte Ranch is located just off U. S. Route 20, west of Sisters, Oregon. That project was followed by the Mount Bachelor Village resort in 1974. However, when the international oil crisis drove up fuel prices in the mid-1970s, recreational travel became very expensive. As a result, Brooks Resources offered everyone who had purchased property at Mount Bachelor Village the opportunity to cancel their purchase contracts. Every buyer but one took advantage of the cancellation offer. Once oil prices stabilized, property sales at Mount Bachelor Village picked up again and the project was completed as planned. In 1979, Brooks Resources was officially separated from the Brooks-Scanlon company. In the 1980s, Brooks Resources started two new projects, Shevlin Center begun in 1981 and their Awbrey Butte development that broke ground in 1984. Shevlin Center was a office and light industry park located on the site of the old Shevlin-Hixon sawmill. Eventually, the Shevlin Center area included the Les Schwab Amphitheater and significant public space along the river. In addition, Black Butte Ranch and Mount Bachelor Village remained profitable during that period. Nevertheless, Brooks Resources lost money on its operations.