MOHAWK VALLEY NEWS ITEMS FROM EARLY NEWSPAPERS 1891 - 1929

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THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12-11-1891

COBURG DAM WASHED OUT
Mr. J. C. Goodale, of the Coburg sawmill, experienced a considerable loss Wednesday night about 11
o'clock by the central part of his mill dam, about 60 Ft. wide, washing out. The mill had just finished sawing the
order for the new bridge of the Oregonian Railway across the Calapooia at Brownsville. It will cost several
hundred dollars to make the necessary repairs which will be delayed until a lower stage of water. In the
meantime Mr. Goodale will get an engine from the Eugene Iron Works and connect it with one already in use at
the mill, thus securing power to continue work. No logs were lost, they being secured by a strong boom above
the dam.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12-15-1891

MABEL MURMURINGS
The number of hogs have diminished and the larders are replenished of late.
Bob Fields has been repairing the house on his claim, and last week he moved his earthly possessions
thereto. Can it be possible that Bob is going to live a bachelor's life? Alfred Drury visited his daughter at
Lewisberg last week. A petition has been circulated and readily signed asking that the mail on this route be
increased to three times a week instead of the two as we have now. This is a move in the right direction and
one that will be beneficial to the people along the Mohawk. The county papers would then reach this office on
Saturday; now they won't get here till Monday.
Mrs. Pike died at an advanced age, at the home of Mr. Arnold, her son-in-law, Monday night of last week.
The deceased has been an invalid for several years, and during her last illness she was almost devoid of
reason. The remains were
interred in the Isabel graveyard Tuesday. Thus the old land marks are falling and ere a few more years those
who viewed Oregon as a vast wilderness will have passed.
This week closes out our correspondence from Mabel. For the past, four months we have endeavored from
week to week to report the constantly murmured chain of murmurings and in so doing to have been fair with all
and impartial to none.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12-15-1891

HARD DRINKER
Arlington, Ore. Dec. 14 John K. Tehan, an old logging camp hand, filled up on whisky Saturday night and by
9 o'clock was attacked with violent spasm. A doctor was at once summoned, but to no avail, and in the course of
a few hours Tehan died,


frothing at the mouth. It is said that he drank over fifteen bottles of whisky in two or three hours time.

THE DAILY GUARD 1-14-1892

MAN LOST
Last Friday a man named, Hatfield, from Coburg, was lost in the mountains north-east of John Anderson's
place, on the
McKenzie river. He went out hunting and did not return when searching parties went out to hunt for him. They
found his tracks in the snows and also where he had slept one night, having cut some fir boughs to make his
bed out of. He had plenty of cartridges, a gun, a small axe and a few matches. The search has been continued
daily until last evening, and it was intended to continue the same today. Since writing the above, we have
learned that Hatfield has returned to his home at Coburg, coming out by way of the Mohawk. He suffered
severely from the effects of his hardship while in the mountains.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4-12-1892

MOHAWK ITEMS
Will Casterline, who has been working for Mr. Skinner the past winter, is staying with Mr. George Drury and
attending school. A very wise move, Will.

The mail comes three times a week now, but no more to the satisfaction of the citizens than before, as they
all wanted their mail on Saturday instead of Friday.
Mr. A. Wilson is preparing to erect a new residence on his premises the coming summer. It will add greatly to
the
appearance of their place, as their present house is hardly viewable from the road.
We learn that Mr. Arnold had quite an unpleasant encounter with a bear a few days ago. He shot the bear
but only crippled it, and his ammunition being exhausted he, with the help of the dogs, had to kill the bear with a
club. One of the dogs was nearly hugged to death and had to be carried home. With the exception of
one school, Mohawk supplied itself with teachers this season. Mrs J. Lewis is employed at Mabel, Miss E.
Whitmore at upper Mill Creek, Miss Minnie Evans at Mill Creek, Mrs. J. H. Spores at Mohawk, and T. Gill of
Eugene, at the Baxter school.
The other Mohawk teachers are employed as follows; Miss Rena Spores at Cottage Grove, Miss Clara
Stafford at Lorane, Miss Kate Drury at Star and Miss Anna Drury at Thompson. THE DAILY
EUGENE GUARD 4-20-1892

ISABEL ITEMS
I will endeavor to give a few Mill Creek and Mohawk items, as I think they are both deserving of, praise.
Mr. C. Cole contemplates building a new store and I.O.O.F. hall this summer, as we are in need of both
greatly.


Mr. Franklin is making a drive of 10,000 ties down the Mohawk. Logging is all the rage on Mill Creek. The Mill
Creek Lumbering Company, is going to do a good business this summer. Messrs. Wood, Whipple and Lilly Bros
are on the way to the mouth of the Mohawk with a drive of logs from upper Mill Creek. They are driving them
with a flood dam 18 feet high. Another dam will be pushed to completion at once,Henry Franklin engineering it,
which will be 24 feet high when completed.
A. L. Montgomery say's he is going to drive a million and a half feet of logs to market early this fall, "if he
doesn't get too fleshy", as he has 500,000 feet cut. He is fitting out one of the best logging teams on the river.
Mr. Irving Lilly lost a valuable horse out of his logging team a few days ago.
Mr. Harshberger and Beebe Smith are busy filling an order for 5000 ties.
Mr. Hank Martin, a responsible land locator went up Mill Creek the other day with a man to locate. He was
from Aberdeen Washington.
This will be on of the greatest on the coast in another year without doubt. The timber is said to be the finest
yellow fir on the coast and the easiest to get out. There is talk of a large sawmill going up at the mouth of Mill
Creek. But it is no
surprise, as it is one of the best places for one in the county, as the backing will last for years.


THE DAILY GUARD 6-29-1892

MOHAWK ITEMS
The hoodlum element still exists in our land on last
Saturday night some person or persons removed a burr from the axle of Monroe Hill's wagon which was left
standing near the road loaded with lumber. They also unloaded a part of the lumber and scattered it in bad
shape. It is already pretty well known who the parties are and Mr. Hill says he will prosecute them.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12-15-1892

COBURG ITEMS
George Drury has improved his lots by setting out some maple trees around them. John Holt is the new
nightwatch at the mill, and as it is the nightwatch's duty to fire up in the morning, John thought he would try it, so
went to work about 4 o'clock and when found at half past six by some of the workmen, he was all in a lather and
only had about 10 pounds of steam. He tried to raise steam with all the drafts open, see?
For the last 10 days a flock of from 1500 to 3000 wild geese have been making the night hideous with their
squalling, in coming to and going from their roosts, which is located in a pond about a mile,south of town.
Several of our hunters have gone out after them, but owing to the dark nights have failed to get many. The
old mill shed has been overhauled, and now instead of the buzzing saw the hum of two monstrous planers can
be heard. Will See expects to open up his new store about the 1st of January. Last Thursday the engine in
the new mill broke and causes quite a delay in the work for a day or two.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3-23-1893


COBURG ITEMS
Our blacksmith, Mr. Cox, left for Montana last Monday. Jim Clover has moved his family to Woodburn
where he
intends to keep a boarding house.
Old Mr. Canterbury was taken to the poor farm Tuesday, and Rev. Tillman has sold his meat shop here to
Henry Philippi, who will continue the business at the old stand.
We understand that Rev T. has purchased a shop in
Springfield and will move his family there the latter part of this week.
Mr. Jackson will move his family to Waterloo in, a few days, where he will go into business.
John Cochran and Tom VanDuyn shipped a fine lot of butchered pigs to Portland Tuesday.
It is told as a fact that a certain man entered the
postoffice, threw down ten cents and asked for five 2-cent stamps. Five bright new Columbians were passed
out to him which he promptly pushed back with "you can't bunko, me Mr." The postmaster insisted that they
were good, but he refused to receive them, and would not be satisfied with any but the old style. Counterfeit
dimes, composed of antimony and tin are said to be in circulation here. We haven't seen any, but heard of a
man that saw a $2 bill raised to a $10.
With no church in town, and everybody moving out, and no one coming in, Coburg will be a lonesome town
this summer. If money was as plentiful in this place as talk, there would be no need for hard times, but it
isn't and that settles it.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1-12-1895

A FORMER EUGENE MAN ARRESTED ON A QUEER CHARGE
Friday's Salem Journal; J. E. Baker, manager of the Goodale lumber yards in this city, was yesterday
arrested by constable Beach of Woodburn, on a charge of forgery.
It seems that last spring Mr. Baker signed the name of his employer, Mr. Goodale, to a bond for Messrs
Plumber and Ault, who were erecting a building for Cochran, Ford and Mack, of Woodburn. When the work was
finished the contractors were in debt to the Woodburn firm about $800, and now an effort is being made to hold
Mr. Baker, he having signed his employers name without power of attorney. This he did in the best faith, as he
is in the habit of thus signing on liens, checks, receipts, contracts, etc.
Every bank in town honors a Goodale check signed by Mr. Baker, and this attempt to make him trouble is largely
a bluff. Mr. Baker was placed under $200 bond by Justice Johnson yesterday, which was duly furnished. This
morning the constable called for Mr. Baker before he was up and insisted upon taking him to Woodburn before
he consulted an attorney, where he was again placed under $800 bond.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2-23-1895

THE SPORES BRIDGE


This mornings Register has the following concerning the Spores bridge over the Mohawk river.
"We are informed by parties who came over the road yesterday that the bridge across the Mohawk, near the
Yarnell place, is in a very dangerous condition, so that it is unsafe for teams to cross. Our informant states that
the foundation has settled so that the bridge leans about 18 inches out of plumb at the top. The settling has
loosened some of the braces, and the whole structure seems in danger of falling at any time."
There is likely some mistake about the matter, as Judge Fisk informs us that no notice has been received by
the county court of its unsafe condition. He also informs us that the bridge was evidently built slightly on a
slant, and that in nothing out of the ordinary has happened it is in no more danger of falling at present than when
it was first built; about two years ago, however, to prevent it slipping any further in the way it now leans, strong
rods and braces were put in. If anything serious affected the bridge, or it was in a. dangerous condition it is
very probable that the county court would receive immediate notice as the road is traveled considerably and
the public can not afford to long have the road in an
impassable condition, especially when knowing that by informing the court it would be speedily mended.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3-16-1895

MOHAWK MAN ARRESTED FOR CUTTING TIMBER ON GOVERNMENT LAND

Myron B. Wood, of Mill Creek, was arrested this morning by deputy Marshal George Humphrey, of Portland,
and brought to Eugene. Mr. Wood lives at Mill Creek on the Mohawk, about thirty miles east of Eugene, and the
charge brought against him is for cutting timber on government land. The full particulars in regard to cutting
the timber could not be learned. Wood was given a hearing before United States Commissioner J. J. Walton
and bound over in the sum of $500, with Joel Ware as security, to appear before the United States Grand Jury
at Portland.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5-31-1895

COBURG ITEMS

J. C. Goodale's mill is running steady. Mr. Charles Powers has returned from California. Charles says Coburg
is good enough for him. Messrs Parker and Eccles of Lost Valley were here Tuesday and offered to locate a
flouring mill at this place, provided a loan of $2000 would be made to them for 5 years.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-3-1895

MYRON B. WOOD CONVICTED
Myron B. Wood was convicted yesterday in the United States district court of cutting timber on government
land. The jury deliberated upon the case 3 1/2 hours.
This is the first conviction for this offence in this district in seven years.


On January 9, 1891 Wood filed a pre-emption claim on 160 acres of land on Mill Creek, in Lane county, in
section 18, township
16 south, range 1 east. He never paid anything on the land, and in October, 1893, allowed his pre-emption to
expire.
On August 4, 1894, Wood went to the land office at Roseburg. It was charged against him that between the
time his pre-emption right expired and the time of his homestead entry, and while he had no claim whatever on
the land, he contracted to deliver 2,000,000 feet of timber to the Harrisburg Lumber Company, and did deliver
900,000 feet. Heretofore sympathy has played a conspicuous part in this class of cases, and acquittals have
been the invariable rule. It was considered no crime to steal timber from the government. We understand that
the jury recommended the defendant to the mercy of the court.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-7-1895

FIRE AT COBURG
Last night about 10:30 o'clock the people of Coburg were aroused from their slumbers by the cries of 'FIRE'.
It was found that a large livery stable belonging to J. A. Holt was on fire, and beyond help, as that little city has
no means whereby to fight the fiery element. Willing hands managed to save the horses, and several buggies,
while the balance of the populace formed a bucket brigade to save other property, and by hard work the fire was
prevented from spreading to the other important buildings of the place; the only other building destroyed being
Henry Philippi's barn.
The following property was destroyed in Mr. Holt's barn; 2 buggies, 400 bushels of oats, 50 tons of hay, 30 of
which
belonged to William VanDuyn , one stage hack, 6 sets harness, 2 saddles and other minor articles used about
a livery stable. In the barn two cows, some chickens and four head of hogs were burned up. Mr. Holt's loss will
probably amount to $1,500; insurance $1,000 in the Norwich Union. It is thought the fire caught from a defective
flue, although nothing is positively known about the matter, as when it was discovered the barn was all ablaze. A
fire had been built in the stove in the evening to heat water for washing harness.
Henry Phillippi's barn was also destroyed. Loss about $150; no insurance. By hard work the residences of
Henry Phillippi and Mr. Holt and the large railroad warehouse were saved from
destruction, although the roof of the warehouse caught fire a number of times. Sam Holt, a son of the proprietor
was sleeping in the room from which the flue led. He knew nothing of the fire until his father ran from his
residence near by and awakened the young man barely in time to escape with a pair of overalls on. His trunk of
clothing and other possessions in the room were destroyed.


We understand Mr. Holt will rebuild and continue the business. The light from the burning building was
plainly visible from Eugene. The fire was the indirect cause of almost a serious accident, happening this morning
to Warren Bullis, a brakeman on the railroad. While switching he swung out from the car to get a view of the
ruins and his head struck a telegraph pole knocking him unconscious. He recovered after a time but with a very
sore head.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7-23-1895

THOMAS J. EVANS, A WELL KNOWN CITIZEN OF MOHAWK DIES OF HEART FAILURE
Thomas Jefferson Evans, an old and well-known resident of the Mohawk Valley, dropped dead from heart
failure at his
home,yesterday evening about 8 o'clock. Mr. Evans resides at his home near the Isabel post office, about 18
miles east of this city. Last evening his daughter, Miss. Minnie, in company with another young lady had crossed
the Mohawk Creek, which runs close by the house, to pick some berries.
While they were cutting up and playfully hallood or screamed several times, Mr. Evans heard them from the
house and, thinking some trouble had befell them, hurried to the scene, greatly exerting himself in his efforts to
reach them. Arriving, he found the girls all right, and sitting down on the bank of the creek, threw his hands to his
breast with an exclamation which indicated he was suffering great pain. He afterwards got up, remarking that
they had given him a terrible fright. The party then walked to the house. Reaching the porch, Mr. Evans stepped
upon it, then suddenly threw his hands to his breast and fell to the floor dead.
Thomas Evans was born in Edgar county Illinois, June, 9, 1839, and was therefore aged 56 years, at the time
of his death. He resided in that state until 15 years of age when he removed with his parents to Nebraska, living
in that state until the year 1856, when he removed to Oregon. The trip was made across the plains on
horseback in company with Jack Hughes and James
Parrish. He served through the Rogue River Indian war under Captain King and during the Civil War was
employed by the United States government as Indian scout in Idaho and Montana. In 1868 he was married to
Miss. Emma Gross, of Linn county. They settled at their home on the Mohawk, where they have since lived. His
wife and three children - Miss Minnie, Charles W. and Loren O. are left to mourn his death.
The funeral will be held tomorrow at the Isabel cemetery at 11 a. m.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10-1-1895


UP THE MOHAWK
A few days ago Deputy Game Warden McClanahan made a trip up the Mohawk, at the request of a citizen
who made complaint that the saw mills in that section were dumping all their sawdust into
the stream. Mr. McClanahan found that every mill in that valley was violating the law, but as they promised
hereafter to forbear, no arrests were made. However future violations will be
prosecuted.



THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3-21-1896

BURGLARS AT COBURG
Country stores are robbed very frequently these days. The last one occurred at Coburg last night. It appears
that burglars broke into the general Merchandise store of VanDuyn Bros.
sometime during the last night by breaking open the front doors.
They went to the rear portion of the store and started to drill into the safe, but probably became scared, and
gave up the job. As a precautionary measure the burglars had opened the rear windows which had been nailed
down. The money drawer was broken open and the change, amounting to three or four
dollars was taken: Nothing else was missed.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10-28-1896

DEATH OF EDITOR CARTWRIGHT
Today's Albany Herald; The sad intelligence of the passing away of one of the brightest and most highly
esteemed young men of Linn County, was brought to us yesterday by the following telegram: Harrisburg, Oct. 27
- John E. Cartwright died at
2:30 p. m. He was sick only six hours. The doctor pronounced it chronic poison from printers type.
Mr. Cartwright had established the Harrisburg Review upon a firm basis, had recently married, and was
considered one of Harrisburg's best business men. His loss will be most sincerely mourned.


THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10-31-1896

BURGLARS PENETRATE

W. M. VanDuyn's SAFE AT COBURG William VanDuyn's safe in his general store at Coburg was cracked by
burglars last night. There was no money in the safe and the burglars got nothing.
Tracks about the building indicate that the deed was
committed by two men. An entrance to the store was effected by removing two panes of glass from the sash in
one of the rear doors. Tools were procured from J. C. Goodale's blacksmith shop with which a hole was drilled
through the outer door of the safe and the combination broken. The lock on the inside door was broken and
access was gained to the safe without the use of explosives.
Mr. VanDuyn had left no money in the safe and the burglars got nothing for their trouble. They removed the
books to an adjoining room and tore up some papers, but so far as can be ascertained did not molest anything
else in the store. A
partially rolled cigarette was left in the building.
There is no definite clue to the would be burglars, though the store and safe were doubtless broken into by
local talent.



THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11-10-1896
TWO BOYS DROWNED
Last Sunday afternoon two small boys of Mr. Vansycle, fell off of a foot log at the Mill Creek Saw mill, in
Mabel precinct and were drowned. The entire community were out searching for the bodies yesterday, but were
not successful up to last evening. Our informant could not give us any particulars of the
unfortunate affair neither the ages of the children nor the initials of the father.


THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12-29-1896

THE GREAT COYOTE HUNT
May 1st 1897: Embracing territory commencing where the state road forms a junction with the Eugene road
north of Doak
Zumwalt's, thence up the north fork of the Coyote, crossing over into Fox Hollow, and on across to Camas
Swale, and on north to the Willamette river; thence on down the river to the railroad; following the railroad to
Eugene, thence on out west to the Cantrel Lane; thence on across to the Coyote; thence on to the place of
commencement.
We the undersigned agree.. to be on hand, rain or shine, providing there are 250 names or more enrolled, on
or before the 10th of April 1897. The Guard will notify from time to time. If said 250 names are not enrolled by
the 10th of April, 1897, said hunt will be declared off. There will be a committee appointed to select grounds to
drive to. Proceeds will be disbursed according to the vote of the crowd.


THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2-22-1897

A TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY AT COBURG IS THE VICTIM OF KICKING HORSE A horrible accident
occurred at Coburg last evening.
George Shaub, aged about 12 years had the whole top of his head crushed in by a kicking horse.
Shaub is the stepson of Lafe Hendricks. The family resides in Coburg. One of Mr. Hendrick's daughters left
this city on last night's overland train for California. The family accompanied her there and were all away from
home when the accident happened. It is supposed that young Shaub went to the barn about 5 O'clock to attend
to the evening chores. When the family arrived home about an hour after that time they found the boy lying on
the barn floor. He had been kicked by a family horse, which had always been considered perfectly trustworthy.
The top of the unfortunate lad's skull and brain was crushed in. He was still breathing and was carried to the
house. Hope of saving the boys life is considered very doubtful.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-3-1897

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT COBURG


Last Tuesday Mr. Hopkins, who lives on the John Diamond place, at Coburg, met with an accident that came
near losing for him a limb. He was cutting a fir tree about two feet in diameter that lay across a gully, and it
falling, before he looked for it, precipitated him to the ground and against a tree on the down hill side of the log,
which followed him up pinching him against the tree, threatening at any time to roll over him. His little son at
once ran for his mother, who in time started for Coburg for assistance. On the way she met Thomas VanDuyn
and some other men and they at once proceeded to liberate the man from his painful position.
It was found that his left foot was badly mashed and his leg to the knee badly bruised, although no bones of
the leg were broken. Dr. Kuykendall dressed the wounds and reports the patient now getting along nicely.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-30-1897

COBURG ITEMS
William VanDuyn, the dry goods merchant, visited Eugene on business Tuesday. Wednesday morning J. C.
Goodale shipped two car loads of lumber to the Utah Lumber Co. The mill is now running at full capacity and
was at this writing over 600,000 feet behind with their orders from Utah, California and points in Oregon, three
car loads of which go to the reform school at Salem.
Tuesday afternoon one of the cylinder heads of the big engine in the saw mill blew out, and was shipped to
the Albany Iron Works for repair, but luckily they are still able to run with one cylinder until the other is repaired.
Will Goodale is home from Mill Creek where he has been getting out shingle bolts for his father's
mill.



THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1-14-1898

DAYS WHEN WHITE SETTLERS OF LANE COUNTY WERE FEW
From the Salem Journal- " I met Charles Spores, a son of Met Spores, who lives up on the Mohawk, above
Eugene. He is in partnership in a barber shop and doing well. His grandfather settled where Coburg now stands
and run the ferry there. He used to haul flour to Portland with an Ox-team, taking six weeks for a trip, and knew
every man and dog on the road. His nearest
neighbor was Eugene Skinner, after whom the town was named. He thought he was the only white man in the
county until some indians told him that a Boston man lived just across the river. They at once swam the river to
see the only white neighbor in the county.
The journal man should have got that other pioneer story about Uncle Elias Briggs, who took a donation land
claim where Springfield is built; going over to the McKenzie one morning early after he had been made aware of
the presence of a camp of white people on the bank of that stream, nearly three miles from his claim, he found
the old pioneer, William Stevens at work on a cabin.


The story goes that he vehemently expostulated with Stevens for "crowding" him; and that was in 1847, when
the only white settlers within the present borders of Lane county were Skinner on the present site of Eugene,
Briggs and Stevens in Springfield precinct, Spores near Coburg, and Bristow on Pleasant Hill; but the old
pioneer had a horror of being Crowded.




THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2-19-1898

COBURG FIRE

This morning about 2 o'clock the livery barn belonging to J. A. Holt of Coburg, was discovered on fire, and
the flames gained such headway as to be beyond control. The building and its contents were soon a total loss.
The barn of Henry Phillipi, situated just north, caught fire also and soon succumbed to the flames.
Mr. Phillipi's residence caught fire a number of times and it was saved only by hard work of the citizens who
turned out to help. As it was, the residence was badly damaged.
From Coburg parties it is learned that Mr. Holt carried insurance amounting to $1000 in the American Fire
Insurance Co. His loss includes the building, a number of buggies, sets of harness etc.. He is supposed to have
had but little hay or grain in the building at the time. Mr. Phillipi carried some
insurance, but the amount is not known. The cause of the fire is unknown.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3-8-1898

SAFE AT BOOTH KELLY SAGINAW MILL BLOWN UP Jack Davis who was at Saginaw
yesterday brought down word this morning that the office safe in the Booth Kelly mill was blown open last night,
leaving it almost a total wreck. The robbers secured coin to the amount of 33 cents only. A diamond ring
valued at about $150 was in the safe, but in some manner was overlooked.
Workmen who live near the mill heard two distinct
explosions, but did not attach any importance to the same and no investigation was made at the time, so that the
matter was not discovered until this morning. So far as could be learned no clue to the robbers has been
discovered.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3-9-1898

UNCLE JOHN DIAMOND OF COBURG


The Albany Democrat has been raking up some pioneer history, and mixed up our friend Uncle John
Diamond with past events. From Linn Co. records it appears that the boundary between Lane and Linn counties
was the McKenzie river, instead of a line about 6 miles north of the point where the Coburg bridge spans the
stream, as at present.
The Democrat gives the names of election Judges of "Spores" precinct as follows:
Spores M. Wilkins, Isaac Briggs and John Diamond. The name of this last precinct and the names of the
judges prove that the southern boundary of the county at that time was the McKenzie River This election was
just a little bit irregular, or we would now consider it so. If an election should be held now in the same way, the
probability is that some unsuccessful candidate would ask to have the vote of the Spores precinct thrown out.
Uncle Johnny Diamond, who is still living on his old claim near Coburg, acted as one of the judges, and at the
next term of court after the election he appeared before the Judges and asked to be made an American citizen.
Of course his request was granted and the oath he took is entered up in due form as
follows:
I do solemnly swear that I renounce all fidelity and
allegiance to all foreign princes and states, and declare my intention to become a citizen of the United States.

JOHN DIAMOND
There is no doubt that Uncle Johnny exercised the right of an American citizen in the case above while he
was yet an
Irishman.
Old age has dealt kindly with John Diamond, he is 82 past, and the old man yet delights his friends with his
cheery cordial disposition and presence and undimmed mind. May his days yet be long in the place he has seen
grow from a wilderness to a land of homes blessed with all the conveniences and luxuries of modern civilization.

M. Wilkins and Isaac Briggs, the latter the original owner of the Springfield Water Power, and located on a
donation land claim of which the site of Springfield is part, have passed to the majority.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4-7-1899

MILL SITE BEING LOOKED OVER FOR BOOTH KELLY MILL Following closely upon the
purchase by the Booth Kelly Company from the Oregon and California Railroad Company of a large tract of
timber land on the Mohawk and Mill Creek, comes their preparations to build and, operate new mills and lumber
yards.
It is reported that the company has secured the refusal of the George H. Armitage farm, four miles north of
Eugene, or as much of it as may be necessary for use in erecting mills,
creating and building canals and booms for the retention of logs. R. S. Booth of the company and A. H.
Tanner, of Portland, council, were viewing the proposed site yesterday, and Mr. Booth will remain for several
days attending to details. The Armitage farm possesses every requirement for the proposed mill
site. It has plenty of low river bottom land adjacent to the McKenzie in which canals and booms can easily be
built sufficient to hold thousands of logs, insuring continuous runs for mills of large capacity.
BRANCH RAILWAY


Looking over the proposed millsite on the Armitage farm, in company with Messrs Tanner and Booth, were R.
Koehler, manager of the S. P. Oregon lines and M. Valk in charge of their tracks. The Booth Kelly
Company desires a line of railway to tap their new mill and connect with the main line of the S. P. and the
Woodburn branch. In this connection it is understood that the S.P. considers the matter very favorably and will
connect either at Eugene or Springfield on the main line.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4-27-1899

THE ENTERPRISE MILL SOLD TO THE BOOTH KELLY COMPANY Albany, April 26.- George
Kelly of the Booth Kelly Lumber Company which recently purchased 23,000 acres of timberland on the Mohawk,
returned yesterday from a trip up the north Santiam, where he went to inspect the big sawmill plant known as the
Enterprise mill on the Breitenbush, owned by J. W. Cusick, of this city. The mill has been lying idle for several
months, and it was purchased by the Booth Kelly Co., who will remove it to the vicinity of their timber lands.

The mill has a cutting capacity of 100,000 feet of lumber a day. The consideration for the plant, which
includes only the machinery, was about $8000.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5-6-1899
BOOTH KELLY LEASES COBURG SAWMILL WITH OPTION TO PURCHASE The Booth Kelly
Lumber Co. today closed up the lease of the Coburg sawmill, owned by J. C. Goodale, for the term of twelve
months, with the option of purchasing the same at any time, at an agreed price, during the life of the lease.
This property is a valuable one on account of its
adaptability for holding logs safely during the winter months. It is estimated that with a moderate expense,
10,000,000
feet can be stored in the ponds.
The Booth Kelly Company takes possession of the mill June 1st, and will immediately operate the present mill
to its
greatest capacity. In the meantime they will purchase new motive power, and all other machinery necessary to
do first-class and rapid work.
Logging contracts will be let at once. In a few days we hope to be able to chronicle more enterprises of the
company. It is a great thing that men representing so much capitol have located in Lane County.



THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5-22-1899
MEMBERS OF BOOTH KELLY CO. VISITING THEIR RECENT PURCHASE Members of the Booth
Kelly Lbr. Co. left Eugene today for Mill Creek to inspect their recent purchase of timber land in that section.
The party is composed of the following gentlemen:
J. F. Kelly, Z. S. Collier, Saginaw, A. J. Hechtman, Judd


Hechtman, Herbert Flelshhacker, San Francisco, F. H. Buck, Vacaville, R. A. Booth, H. C. Kinney, Grants Pass.
Members of the party speaking to a "Guard reporter today said the object of the trip was merely to
inspect the timber on their recent purchase on the Mohawk and Mill Creek. They left by private conveyance this
morning and will return
to this city tomorrow night.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-9-1899

CONSTRUCTION OF THE MOHAWK RAILROAD DEPENDS ON THE MOHAWKERS For a number of
years the people of the beautiful Mohawk valley have prayed for a railroad with little or no hope of being
rewarded. At last they can procure a railroad if they will only be liberal. Will they do it ?
A railroad to that valley from the main line of the S. P. R. R. will enhance the value of every farm lying within
it from $5 to $10 per acre.
During the winter months it is a great struggle for a two horse team to draw a light loaded wagon to Eugene,
the county seat. They can only market their produce during the summer and fall season, and must procure a
winters supply of groceries, etc. All this would be changed with a railroad.
If the people of that section will give the proposed railway a right of way, it will be built at once, as will also
large mills in the neighborhood of Isabel. Thousands of dollars will be distributed among the people of that
section.
Mohawk has it in her power to procure this railroad or to lose it probably for years and years. Now is the time
to act. A month from now will be too late.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-10-1899

THE BOOTH KELLY COMPANY ASKS FOR THE RIGHT-OF-WAY The Booth Kelly Lumber
Company some days since purchased-- from the S. P. R. R., timberlands in the upper portion of the Mohawk
precinct amounting to perhaps $150,000, and since that time they have purchased from other residents in the
same belt amounting to quite a large sum. They also secured the right of Lane Co. to improve the Mohawk River
and tributaries; then the company leased the Coburg saw mill from J. C. Goodale, with the option of purchasing
the same at an agreed sum during the year.
After fully examining the Mohawk River and tributaries the gentlemen composing the company, the Messrs
Booth and Kelly and some California capitalists, decided it would be impossible to turn out the lumber
demanded. A railroad was then thought of, and Engineers were sent for and placed in the field and profiles were
furnished showing the project possible. The company started negotiations with the S. P. to build a first class
railroad. The railroad agreed to build a standard gauge railroad from Henderson station about 3 miles above
Eugene to Isabel on the upper Mohawk, about 14 miles, and run a daily train over the same if B. K. would
guarantee 2,500 car loads of lumber over their lines to points outside Oregon to furnish ties for the road and the
right of way free of cost. B. K. agreed with the conditions except the right of way.
Committees from Eugene left this morning in private


conveyances to interview the owners of property through which the line runs, to sign right of way contracts. In
four days every foot of the right of way should be obtained. The railroad estimates that the building
of the road alone will cost $200,000, which includes bridges across the Willamette and McKenzie rivers.



THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-23-1899

SOME INCIDENTS OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF LANE COUNTY The name of John B.
Ferguson is a familiar one to the pioneers of Lane County as well as well as many later settlers. In September
1848, over half a century ago he came to Lane County and settled on the place six miles northeasterly from
Junction City where he still resides. Mr. Ferguson is 74 years of age and his friends hop that many more may be
added to that number. On last Tuesday our friend and the old pioneer of 1846, Uncle John Ferguson was
interviewed by the Junction City Times and furnished information on early pioneer history. He says there was not
a white mans wigwam between Corvallis and Eugene.
Skinners wigwam was at Skinners butte, now Eugene, but there were a few settlers along the foot hills. Bands of
roaming Indians could be seen passing from one range or one foot hill to another. Among them were Klickitate,
Molallas, Klamath and Rogue River Indians.
In 1846 the venerable old patriarch Elijah Bristow settled on a ranch about twelve miles southwest of Eugene
and built the first log cabin in Lane County, which was in the fall of 1846. This house was built of hewed logs and
the floor and loft
were made of boards sawed with a whip saw that Uncle Elijah brought with him across the plains. The saw was
used by himself and his wife in sawing out these boards. A few years after this Mr. Bristow and others built on
this place the first log school house in Lane County. After more than half a century these buildings are still
standing and In a very good state of
preservation and ought to be purchased by the Lane County Pioneer Association and preserved as relics of the
past. Uncle Elijah Bristow in after years gave several acres and deeded it to school and church purposes and
named it Pleasant Hill, on which a splendid church and school house now stand.
It was in April, 1848, that a band of Klamath Indians came into the vicinity of Pleasant Hill and killed some
cattle for parties on the middle fork of the Willamette and also a valuable work ox for Elijah Bristow. A runner
was immediately sent down the valley as far as Corvallis, asking for help to chastise and run the Klamath back.


Mr. Ferguson says that a force of seventeen man was raised. Seven of them going from between Corvallis
and Eugene, which consisted of, J. B. Ferguson, Joshua Herbert, James Manning, Thomas Bruett, and Ransom
Belknap, the others he cannot remember. These pioneers crossed the river at Springfield in a canoe,
swimming their horses, and after going to the scene of action, the whole force numbered only seventeen men.
Mr. Ferguson does not remember their names, but says everyone was a host within himself and could easily kill
or capture the whole band. But they were doomed to disappointment as Uncle Elijah, single handed and alone
had driven the indians across the river at a place known as Scuffle Point , firing into them as they swam on their
ponies across the river, and thinks he may have memaloused some of them. The remainder of the force later
came up holtily and crossed the river in a canoe, swimming their horses, but as the Indians had such a start it
was thought best to give it up. The men were so disappointed and as they were near a
beautiful butte, someone in the crowd, Mr. Ferguson thinks it was Mr. Bristow, proposed that they name it Butte
Disappointment, which has ever borne that name.
Mr. Ferguson in company with Joshua Herbert, ascended the butte and on top of which they found a level
place of many acres in extent. This was in April 1848, and Mr. Ferguson thinks they were the first white men that
were ever on the butte. Some of the crowd returned to the log cabin of Mr. Bristow and after resting a
while, all returned to their respective wigwams. They were never troubled with the Indians again in this part of
the valley.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-29-1899

THE BOOTH KELLY COMPANY WRITTEN UP IN THE SALEM STATESMAN
From the Salem Statesman, June- 28-1899 - One of the largest business concerns of Oregon is the Booth
Kelly Lumber Company which owns a box factory at Grant's Pass, four or five miles in Josephine county,
sawing mostly sugar pine, and the three mills, two at Saginaw and one at Coburg, Lane county sawing fir
timber. This company is turning out about a million feet of lumber every four days. It is the largest shipper over
the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon.
Two representatives are employed at Denver, one at San Francisco and one in the City of Mexico. It is now
behind on its orders , and it often buys largely from other mills to accommodate its customers. Much lumber is
supplied by this company to the Rio Grande Western railroad and other large customers in the timber lease
regions of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and old Mexico, and the Southern Pacific and its branches are very
large customers. The Mexican business is very
satisfactory, though the freight charges are enormously high the Huntington road getting the haul clear to the
City of Mexico. This company in now securing the right of way for the Southern Pacific branch to the Mohawk
timber belt,-which it recently purchased at a cost of about half a million dollars. This belt is about six miles wide
and eighteen miles long, and contains one of the finest bodies of timber on the coast. The company is to furnish
the right of way and the ties for the railroad. It will leave the main line a few miles south of Eugene, and run
eastward 16 miles. It will cross one fork of the Willamette and the McKenzie and Mohawk rivers, building three
bridges.
But this will give the Southern Pacific connection of its Springfield Woodburn branch and the main line,
saving a good deal of round-about and profitless hauling.


The work of construction on this sixteen mile feeder will begin July 1st, and the road will be in operation in
four months from that time. The big sawmill of the Booth Kelly Company on the Mohawk will soon thereafter be
in operation. Part of the machinery will come from the Enterprise mill, on the Oregon Central and Eastern on the
upper Santiam, which was recently purchased by the Booth Kelly concern. There is enough timber in the
Mohawk belt to keep the mill running for fifty years. The moving,, spirits of this concern are John and
George Kelly, Lane County boys and Robert A. Booth of Grants Pass and Henry Booth now register of the
Roseburg land office, all Oregon boys, and all hustlers. They have enlisted with them some California and
Chicago capitalists. These Oregon hustlers deserve great credit for their energy and pluck in carrying such a
gigantic enterprise to a successful consummation. The prospects now are that they will make of their property a
paying one, while turning to profitable account dormant resources and thus contributing a great deal to the
permanent wealth of their state. In fact their property has already paid good dividends, and it promises larger
profits on the increased investments.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7-21-1899

HE BUYS CHITTIM BARK
Fridays Albany Herald,. Dr. J. A. Lamberson, of Lebanon, was in the city yesterday, returning from a trip to
Eugene, where he made extensive purchases of chittim bark from dealers in that city. The Doctor has been
engaged in buying and shipping Oregon medicines, including grape root, saparilla and chittim bark, or as it is
known by its medical name, cascara sagrada, for a number of years and also manufactures the various oils and
extracts at his laboratory in Lebanon. His principal business at present is buying all the chittim bark he can, but
he also expects to ship a car load of pine pitch in a few days. His activity at present is occasioned by the San
Francisco syndicate trying to keep the price low and the doctor is buying all bark in sight and not allowing the
cheap bark to get on the market. He is paying $60 per ton for bark at Lebanon, Albany and Eugene, and has 88
tons in the Albany freight house for shipment. He is a small trust all by himself and has succeeded in cornering
nearly the entire output from the upper valley.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8-26-1899

BRANCH RAILROAD UP THE MOHAWK NOW ASSURED
The branch railroad of the Southern Pacific from Eugene through Springfield and up the Mohawk to Isabel, is
now assured, and the Booth Kelly Lumber Company, prime movers in the
enterprise, will by this means secure rapid transportation for the marketing of their product. The Booth Kelly
Company
purchased from the O & O R R, one block of 20,000 acres of fine timber land on Mill Creek and the Mohawk,
afterward 10,000 acres, and other small lots, aggregating nearly 40,000 acres of land in this section.


PLAN OF LOCATION
With possibly a few minor exceptions, the route of the road will be as follows:


From Eugene to Henderson Station on the S. P. main line, thence across the Willamette river, either above
or below the steel bridge, to be determined in few days upon engineers report of foundation for piers; thence to
Natron track and along same three miles to Gorrie's farm, where new track will again be built; thence across the
farms of Messrs Henning, Beard, Comegys, Ebbert and Vitus to a point where the McKenzie river will be
spanned 50 Ft. below the Hayden Bridge; thence along the Mohawk to the Spores farm where a bridge will be
erected across said stream 350 feet below the wagon bridge; the next crossing will be just below the mouth of
Mill Greek, which stream will be ascended to the old mill site, the present terminus of the road. The branch will
be about 18 1/2 miles long. The right of way and the ties will cost the Booth Kelly Company app. $23,000, the
cost of the former alone exceeding $12,000.
Several sections of land have been secured at the terminus, Isabel, and here the company's mill, store, hotel
and other buildings will form the nucleus for a thriving village, having as its start a steady pay roll for 300 men in
regular employment. The Booth Kelly Company mill at Saginaw has already
commenced sawing ties for the new line, and the bridge timbers will likely be furnished from this point.

WORK WILL BE RUSHED
Work on the railroad and the new mill and buildings will be carried on with all possible speed. It is expected
the trains will be running to the mill and that the mill will be in
operation by February 1, 1900. The Booth Kelly Co. recently purchased the Berry mill, formerly located at
Breitenbush Creek on the O O & E R R and the same is now ready to be transferred to its new location. It will be
shipped to Springfield, and hauled from there to Isabel on heavy logging trucks. The capacity of the mill will
be 125,000 feet each 11 hour day, and it will be run to its full capacity.
The work of erecting the buildings at the mill site will be in charge of George Kelly of the firm., They will
include the main mill, stores hotels, dry kilns, planing mills, bunk houses, cottages, etc., and is of itself a task of
no small importance. For this work about 75 Mechanics will be required for several months.
The mill at Isabel owned by C. Cole is getting out the lumber for these buildings.

LOGGING OPERATIONS
The Booth Kelly Co. was recently granted a franchise on Mill Creek and will use it for logging purposes. The
logging will be operated by flush dams of the time.
As the timber is consumed it is the intention to extend the road further along the Mohawk. The company
estimates they have enough timber on hand to last 50 years.
Trains will run on the branch daily except Sunday. Members of the company have been in conference in this
city today and sent out an order for new machinery, which is expected to arrive soon. The order includes six
boilers for the mill, having a capacity of 500 horsepower, and two boilers for the planing mill having a capacity of
250 horsepower; also four planers capable of smoothing down a stick 24 by 30 inches, 100 feet long. Machinery
for the dry kiln will guarantee the drying of 50,000 ft.- of lumber in 12 hours.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8-30-1899

BOOTH KELLY COMPANY MEETING WITH GOOD SUCCESS IN SECURING RIGHT OF WAY


The Booth Kelly Co. are busily engaged securing the right of way for the railroad that will bring out the timber
wealth of the upper Mohawk river.
C. Cole, of Isabel, was in Eugene today, and informed us that from his sawmill, one mile below the mouth of
Mill Creek, to the site of the proposed Booth Kelly mill, three miles up Mill Creek from the mouth, the right of
way has practically been secured.

FOUNDATION ORDERED
The order for the foundation timbers has been placed with Mr. Cole's mill.
Our people will probably more fully realize the extent of this industry that is certain to become a very
important factor in the development of Lane County for years to come, when we tell them the ground plan of the
mill is 60 x 180 feet, and that this order all for foundation and floor, figures UP 75,000 feet of lumber. The Booth
Kelly Co. are making preparations to take out millions upon millions of feet of lumber.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9-2-1899

CONTRACTS FOR GRADING BRANCH RAILROAD WILL BE LET NEXT WEEK According to
agreements the Southern Pacific in making active preparations to build the branch railroad from Eugene to the
Mohawk. The grading will soon commence. Bidders on this portion of the work are going over the line today with
the civil engineers, and the contract will be let within the next week. The work of grading, it is understood, will be
commenced where the road leaves the Natron track.
The Southern Pacific expects to have all grading and bridges finished by Jan. 1 1900.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9-4-1899

TWENTY FREIGHT TEAMS NOW DELIVERING FREIGHT TO THE MOHAWK MILL The Booth Kelly
Company is already rushing the construction of their large new saw mill and other buildings on Mill Creek, in the
Mohawk valley. Two mesa buildings and one bunk house are already up and are in use. Several others are
being constructed. The ground for the new mill foundation has been cleared and timbers for the same are being
delivered. The size is 60 x 300 feet.
Several millwrights arrived from Portland last night and went to the mill site this morning. The company is
advertising in the Guard for 75 laborers loggers, and carpenters. If you want work apply at once. George H.
Kelly, superintendent at the mill site, went to that place this morning.
Twenty wagons are already engaged in hauling freight to Coles. Various supplies are being hauled today
including one carload of nails and one carload of cement to be used in
constructing the buildings. The first carload of machinery is expected to arrive tonight. The mill will be
completed by January 1st. A number of contractors are expected from Portland tonight.
The contract for grading the railroad will soon be let.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9-7-1899


THE BOOTH KELLY CO. NOW OWNS THE COBURG SAWMILL It will be remembered that the
Booth Kelly Lumber Company some time since leased the Coburg sawmill with the option to purchase.
Today W. E. Brown and wife deeded by quitclaim the mill and all rights and privileges owned or vested to
construct, enlarge, maintain and operate mill race running to the mill; all of the J. C. Goodale sawmill property at
Coburg, together with the sawmill, planing mill, blacksmith shop and offices situated on the premises, together
with all tools, implements and machinery now on hand; also office safe; all supplies on hand for the mills and
shops; also all logging tools, ropes and supplies on hand, to the Booth Kelly Company for the sum of $15,000.
The mill has been remodeled and an electric light plant is being placed in to permit the mill to run
night and day. It is expected that it will saw 100,000 feet of lumber, per day, when it starts up.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9-8-1899

STEEL BRIDGES WILL SPAN THE RIVER ON RAILWAY
It is expected that before Saturday night the contract for grading the Mohawk branch of the Southern Pacific
Railroad will be let in San Francisco. Several Oregon men are now in that city getting ready to bid.
Therefore it is likely that work will begin next week throwing dirt. The company has concluded to use steel
bridges in spanning the rivers instead of wooden ones as originally announced. The bridge across the
Willamette will consist of two spans with a stone pier in the center of the river.

B. K. BUILDINGS BEING ERECTED
About fifty men are at work in hauling and erecting
buildings at Coles for the large Booth Kelly sawmill.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9-11-1899

FORREST AND WOODCOCK WILL FURNISH COBURG MILL 10,000,000 FT.
Malor L. D. Forrest and Attorney A. C.Woodcock have just received a new contract to furnish the Coburg
sawmill 10 million Ft. more of McKenzie logs. The logs are to be furnished as follows. 6,000,000 in the spring
of 1900 and 4,000,000 feet in the fall of 1900. The old contract called for 4,500,000 this fall. They have already
made one delivery on the contract, and have a drive of 2,700,000 feet at the mouth of Camp Creek in route to
the mill.
They have ordered a portable engine and will use a cable in the woods hereafter. This contract will give
employment to a large number of men.



THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9-21-1899

JOHN BAYS OF PORTLAND GETS MOHAWK CONTRACT


John Bays has received the contract for grading and doing the rock work on the Mohawk Railroad between
Eugene and Wendling. Mr. Bays says that he is expected to be throwing dirt on the line by next Monday
morning. He will hire six men and teams here in Lane county if he can procure them. If not, he will bring his
regular plant here, which has 100 head of horses, the same at present being near the Snake River where he has
just completed a contract for the O. R. & N. Some 50 scrapers will be unloaded from cars at Henderson station
tonight to be used in the work.
He will first grade the road where the branch leaves the Natron line, and the crossing of the McKenzie River, so
the road can be used in delivering bridge materials. He expects to complete the contract in 60 days if the
weather holds good. His son-in-law Mr. Phillips will be timekeeper and have charge of the commissary
department. Tents, of all descriptions to be used in the work will be here Tuesday.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10-4-1899

THE MOHAWK RAILROAD WORK
Contractor John Bays, who is doing the grading on the Mohawk Railroad, arrived here from Portland last
night. He informs us that his grading outfit, including harness, tents, etc, reached Springfield last night, and he
expects two car loads of horses to work on the grade,tonight. They left Snake River yesterday morning. He
says he expects to have 60 scrapers at work on the grade Within the week. His clearing gang in making good
progress and his rock men have the work well under hand. The grade has been completed across the
Springfield county road. It in rumored that work will soon start on the Springfield bridge, and that the steel work
has already been finished by the Sacramento railroad shops.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 11-3-1899

COBURG ITEMS Nov, 1, 1899- Henry Philippi had the misfortune to lose a valuable cow last week, she having
someway become fast in the mud in the mill pond, and was not discovered until it was too late to save her life.
Someone spread the rumor among the "rising generation" that Sam Mathews had taken unto himself a wife,
and an a matter of course, they proceeded to make the night hideous about the premises, but the rumor being
false, Sam soon dispelled the musicians, causing great consternation among them.
Mr. Teeter and daughters have purchased the hotel, and took possession Monday.
It is rumored that Coburg is to have a saloon, but it is hoped by all the self respecting citizens that it will not
materialize.
Some one evidently took electric lights as a danger signal, and reported that diphtheria was prevalent here.
The report has no foundation. We haven't the diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever, or anything else, except a
sawmill, and neighboring towns need not boycott us on account of it, as it is not contagious.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 11-11-1899



WENDLING TO GET TWO 16,000 POUND BOILERS Under the supervision of L. Simon,
one of the largest boilers for the Wendling (Mohawk) saw mill, of the Booth Kelly Lumber Company, which weigh
16,000 pounds has been delivered within three miles of the mill and loaded on a sled at that point, and will
proceed forward. It took six span of horses(12 head) to pull this boiler over the road. A report was current here
that it turned over from the breaking down of the approach of a bridge across the Mohawk river. This is a
mistake. The approach just settled down and the wagon did not turn over. The companion boiler of like weight,
was pulled out of Springfield this morning for its destination. Another boiler, lighter, is being loaded and will be
pulled over the road with four span of horses. L. Simon is head teamster, and knows his business thoroughly.
Altogether there will be about a dozen boilers of different sizes, used in the mill.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 11-29-1899

LOGS LOST AT COBURG
William VanDuyn was in Eugene today, and informed us that through faulty guy ropes the boom across the
river at that place yesterday forenoon swung around and could not be replaced on account of the rise in the
river. He said that men with the drive estimated that between 500 and 1000 logs passed down the river.

If this estimate is correct this will be a heavy loss on Forrest and Woodcock, the owners, as the logs would
easily measure 1500 feet on the average and were worth $5, once safely in the Coburg race.



THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12-8-1899

COBURG ITEMS
We have a new station agent again, Mr.Pearson the former agent being called to Salem, to the bedside of his
wife who has the smallpox.
It is said that a number of young men in town came out of the billiard hall with considerably less cash than
they had on entering. It is to be deplored that such an establishment finds support here.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12-21-1899

COBURG ITEMS
The mill hands had a short lay-off last Thursday, owing to a breakdown, but repairs were made in time for
work to begin the next morning.
Robert Carey our former station agent, has a position as night operator at Glendale on the main line.
Frank Taylor now runs a stage from Coburg to Eugene three times a week, which in very convenient for
those who have no conveyance of their own.


George Drury has returned from a visit to his father on the Mohawk. The Eugene Register had an agent over
here Saturday "doing the town" for their daily. He tried to convince us that it was better than the Guard, but
having a mind of our own, we failed to see it that way.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1-3-1900

MOHAWK BRANCH RAILROAD
About 20 men arrived at Springfield Sunday to work on the branch railroad grade. One-half of them were
negroes. The Southern Pacific pile driver arrived at Springfield Monday night, and has been sent to the front,
and will be at work in a few days. D. McCarty, of San Francisco, came in on yesterday's train to commence work
on the McKenzie bridge at Hayden's.
THE MOHAWK CASE; LEWIS NOT DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED Dr. W. L. Cheshire arrived
home this afternoon from Mohawk, where he was called to attend Alec Lewis, who was stabbed
yesterday by Marcellus Arnel, in a fight resulting from some past trouble. Dr. Cheshire reports Mr. Lewis's
condition quite bad, but the wounds are not considered dangerous. On the right shoulder is a cut six inches
long, on the left arm across the elbow is a cut four inches long, and in the back, on the left side, in a stab
between two ribs which fortunately failed to reach any vital part. Mr. Lewis is now resting easily and will get
along all right.
Sheriff Withers arrived yesterday with Mr. Arnel and the examination will be held before Justice Wintemeier.
The advance stories about the trouble differ somewhat, Arnel claiming he did the cutting in self defence and
Lewis claiming he was attacked by Arnel and his,father. As only the three were present, the examination may
not result in much satisfaction in clearing up the matter. The fight evidently resulted from trouble over a beef
contract held by Arnel with the Booth Kelly Company.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1-25-1900

COBURG, Jan. 24, 1900
We had a railroad wreck right in town last week. The engine was pulling loaded cars out of the lumber yard
when, on reaching a slight curve on the switch, a box car, which was loaded too heavily on one side toppled
over, leaving the wheels on the track. The section men with the very efficient aid of the pile driver, now at work
at the McKenzie bridge, righted the car during the day and reloaded the lumber. We may be a false
prophet, but we believe what we say, when we give our opinion that it in going to snow. The walks are icy and
the pumps are freezing. A little snow and we would call it winter today.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2-15-1900

COBURG IDEAS


The train was wrecked for the third time in the last few weeks, last Wednesday night. No one was injured.
Workmen have been repairing the breakwater at the wagon bridge across the McKenzie, but have
suspended the job until the road settles a little.
The body of John DeLaney, who died in the Philippines will be shipped to his mother who lives in Coburg.
Teams are now hauling the timbers for a new boom to be constructed on scientific principles by the
Booth Kelly Co. Nearly a ton of iron has already been used in the structure. It is built in such a manner as to do
away with the guy ropes formerly used. The timbers are put out by the mill here, and hauled across the
wagon bridge and under the trestle of the railroad bridge across the McKenzie to an open space on the other
side of the river, where the frame work will be put together, and when all in completed it will be floated down
stream to its permanent location.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2-19-1900

SAGINAW SQUIBS
Saginaw is a station on the O & C R. R., 2 1/2 miles north of Cottage Grove and 18 miles south of Eugene.
This is the terminus of the lumber flume of the Booth Kelly Lumber Company, which dumps the lumber from their
saw mills on the railroad track, the mills being situated five miles back in the mountains. With the exception of
two residences the entire town and townsite is owned by the B. K. L. Co., who employ about 200 men here at
the docks and at the two mills. The wages paid run from $1.50 to $2.00 for common labor.
The population of Saginaw I would estimate to be 250 souls. The only place of business consists of one
store owned by the Booth Kelly Co., The only public building is the school house which does duty for all public
meetings and church purposes. It is at present accommodating both democratic and republican clubs, two
separate literary and debating societies as well as the church and public school.
We are sadly in need of hotel accommodations and a public hall. This town would support two or more
fraternal societies as well as several social clubs if only we had a suitable place to hold the same.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2-20-1900

FROM SAGINAW
The Booth Kelly Company shipped 105 car loads of lumber from here for the month of January, and about 90
up to the 16th of February. These car loads ran from 10,000 feet and upwards to the car.


A source of curiosity to the visitor here, among other things, is the Booth Kelly Company's pack train, which
delivers supplies to the sawmills four miles up in the mountains. A string of horses are packed with provisions,
beef, machinery, wire cable, or any old thing used in a logging camp or saw mill. They are then tied in a string,
each to the other's tail, and are skillfully piloted by a gentleman who leads them through the straight and
crooked way, through mud holes and brush, where no wagon could follow. They make a trip every day, and a
worse mud bespattered outfit than these old steeds and said gentleman could nowhere be found.
Miss Ethel Menton, of mill 2, had the misfortune to lose her purse here near the depot a few days ago,
containing $11. It was found by Frank Kennedy and returned intact.
That's right Frank, you will receive your reward in heaven for that!


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2-27-1900

THE COBURG MILL
The Coburg mill of the Booth Kelly Lbr. Co. is shut down for a few days, waiting for the arrival of logs. In the
meantime the new boom is being placed in position. It is 1900 feet long and is fastened with steel cables. It is
expected that this boom will prove to be reliable and adequate for the needs of the mill.
The boom is strengthened and protected by wings.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2-27-1900

SAGINAW SQUIBS
There in a movement on foot to erect a two story building here for public purposes, the ground floor for a city
hall and the upper story for a lodge room for fraternal societies. It is a laudable enterprise and should receive
the support of our citizens.
Vern Hines of mill 2, had the misfortune to sever two toes from his right foot with an axe while sniping the end
of a log today. He took the south bound local for medical attention.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3-1-1900

WENDLING MILL WILL START UP IN THE NEXT 15 DAYS R. A. Booth arrived here today from
the Booth Kelly mill at Wendling. Mr. Booth states the mill will start up about March 12, cutting 80,000 feet per
day, on a new contract of 10,000,000 feet, just signed by them.
He has trade a contract with the Southern Pacific for a telephone line connecting Coburg, Wendling,
Springfield, Saginaw and Cottage Grove with their new main office to be established in this city. It will be a
private line. When the Mohawk railroad in finished the Wendling mill will cut 150,000 feet per day. Mr. Booth
unreservedly states this mill is the best in the state.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3-23-1900

COBURG ITEMS


Many improvements are being made on the mill property here. A new blacksmith shop and a dry kiln are
being erected. The old planer is being torn down. The millpond is being cleared of rubbish, and will be enlarged
to meet the demands of the growing business of the Booth Kelly Company.
Frank Taylor had a narrow escape last week while hauling logs from the pond. A lever gave way throwing
him about eight feet against a timber. He sustained quite severe injury by the fall, but is able to be about now.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3-31-1900

MOHAWK VALLEY RAILROAD
John Bays, the well known contractor, who has been
superintending the construction of : railroad up the Mohawk valley from- Springfield to the Booth Kelly mills, a
distance of 16 1\2 miles, is in the city on a short visit. Mr. Bays has been on this work since last
fall, and is as full of pluck and go as ever. His son has the contract for the road, and he is superintending the
construction. He has the track laid from Springfield to Smith's bluff, a distance of five miles, and two
miles more graded, and intends to have the road completed by the middle of June. In addition to this he has
built a county road along the hillside to take the place of one destroyed by the construction of the railroad.
The Mohawk valley road is to be connected with the Southern Pacific at Henderson's station, which will
necessitate the building of a bridge across the Willamette and some heavy rock cutting on one side and a big fill
on the other.
The plant of Mr. Bays is now under attachment and work on the road suspended.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4-2-1900

MOHAWK ROAD WORKMEN ARE WITHOUT FUNDS AND DESTITUTE The men who have been
working for contractor Bays on the Mohawk branch of the Southern Pacific, deserve the greatest sympathy.
Without money, after working all winter in the mud and wet, actually suffering in some instances for food, which
they are compelled to get by asking for handouts, these honest toilers are in need of anything which can be
given them. Contractor Bays has returned to Portland, and made
practically no payments while here. It is most unfortunate, as Bays has unquestionably lost money on the
contract, and even the workmen do not question his honesty, or willingness to pay, if he could secure the
money. Virtually everything has been attached. Attorneys Thompson and Hardy and L. Biyeu have over $1000
for collection, and are doing a work for charity in trying to get something for the men.
The Southern Pacific should see that these laborers receive their pay. It is a duty the company owes to the
men who have built their road. It is believed that this will be brought about, and that the men will receive what is
justly due them. It has been reported that Mr. Bays has given up the work, having sank all he had in
this job, every phase of which has been disastrous to him. About 20 of the men went to Portland today, their
passage being furnished by the Southern Pacific. The rest of


the laborers will remain here in the hope of securing work of some kind, and will also be on hand to give what
aid they can in the collection of claims.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4-14-1900

WORK WILL BEGIN ON NEW GRADING CONTRACT MONDAY Last Thursday the contract to
finish the grading of the Mohawk Railroad was re-let to contractor Mason of Portland. Mr. Mason has just
finished a contract on the Columbia and Southern and
will at once move his supplies here, including 100 teams. He expects to complete the work in 60 working days,
beginning Monday.

PORTLAND, April 14-
The grading contract on the Mohawk railroad has been let to Archie Mason of this city, who will commence
on the work at once. Mr. Mason shipped and carload of flour yesterday from Albany to his Mohawk supply camp.
His outfit will arrive in Springfield today or Monday-Shipment of material for the steel bridge across the
McKenzie is expected any day. Work on the steel bridge at Springfield will not commence until the branch
between
Springfield and Wendling is nearly completed.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4-17-1900

CONTRACTOR MASON PUSHING WORK RAPIDLY ON MOHAWK RAILROAD Archie Mason, of
Portland, the new contractor in charge of the grading of the Mohawk branch of the S. P. has commenced active
work. Four car loads of horses, scrapers, etc, arrived Saturday night and were at once sent to the front. Three
more carloads of horses and material arrived and were sent to the front last night. The road has an appearance
of activity more evident than at any previous time since work began, and the grading will be pushed with all
possible speed.
The material for the railroad bridge across the McKenzie is expected to arrive at any time. The first shipment
consisting of nine carloads of steel has left the Sacramento shops and is on the road. The bridge complete will
amount to 20 carloads.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4-18-1900

JOHN HIGGINS STRUCK BY FALLING TREE AT WENDLING About 11 o'clock yesterday
morning John Higgins, who has been in the employ of the Booth Kelly Lumber Company felling logs near the
Wendling mill, was struck by the limbs of a tree and injured, so that he died at 7 O'clock this morning.
In company with another man Higgins was working about two miles above the mill, and stopped on a log to
await the falling of a tree which they had just chopped down. Turning he saw that the limbs would strike him,
and started to run along the log out of danger, but he was too late. The limbs hit the man between the
shoulders, knocking him down, and an ax which was sticking in the log cut his arm quite severely.


Higgins was about 40 years old, and so far as is known at the mill, held no family. He came out from the east
several months ago.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4-21-1900

IRON FOR THE MCKENZIE BRIDGE ALREADY RECEIVED

SPRINGFIELD Ore. April 21- The first installment of the steel bridge for the McKenzie river arrived at
Springfield yesterday, consisting of three car loads. The balance of the bridge will follow rapidly. The piers are
nearly completed and in 10 days active work will begin on putting the bridge together. The bridge has been
removed from the Central Pacific railroad, being shipped from Corrineya station, 20 miles went of Ogden Utah.

Archie Mason the contractor received another carload of horses today. It is reported that he expects to
receive 60 Japanese, to arrive by this evening's train, to be turned loose on construction work.



THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4-30-1900

WENDLING SAW MILL
The Booth Kelly Co. has a contract for 10,000,000 feet of ties, for the S. P. R. R. The large mill at Wendling
is at work on the contract now. Put out 90,000 feet Saturday easily and expects to cut from now on 100,000 feet
each day. A platform, 700 feet long has been laid near the mill to load cars from; twenty cars can
thus be loaded at one time.

THE DAILY GUARD 5-3-1900

MEN KILLED IN SAGINAW BOILER EXPLOSION Dr. W. L. Cheshire, coroner arrived
home today from Booth Kelly mill No. 1, above Saginaw seven miles, where he went to investigate the boiler
explosion, which occurred yesterday. Dr.Cheshire reports the affair to have been very disastrous, but one to
which no blame can be attached, unless to the men who were attending the boiler, as they were all experienced
engineers.


The boiler which exploded had not been used for about three weeks, and the water gage had become
stopped up. The men built a fire under the boiler and went about some other work. The result was that enough
steam was generated to blow the boiler sky high, which it did literally. The boiler was one used to haul logs to
the mill and was across the lake from the mill about 500 feet distant. When the explosion occurred the boiler
was lifted into the air, carried across the lake and lit on the roof of the mill, falling from there to the platform,
where it now rests. The other boiler alongside was not injured. The men were terribly injured.
Frederickson, the man killed outright, received a large fracture on the skull, and beside was virtually mashed all
over. Anlauf, who died about 2 o'clock this morning, was badly injured on the head, and had his right am and
left thigh fractured. Rudolph, who is alive and probably
recovering was injured in the chest and burned over various parts of the body, besides having his right arm
fractured.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5-3-1900

CONCLUSION OF SAGINAW BOILER EXPLOSION AND CORONER'S JURY AT 8 O'clock this
morning Coroner Cheshire empaneled a jury, composed of workmen from mill No. 2, and examined into the
causes of the explosion and the death of the two men, concluding this duty about 10:30. He then came to
Saginaw and arrived home on the 1:08 train.

REPORT OF THE CORONER'S JURY
We, the coroner's jury, having been summoned to investigate the boiler explosion, deaths and injuries
occurring at the Booth Kelly mill No. 1, find that said explosion occurred about 10 a. m., and was probably due to
overpressure; and that Otto
Fredrickson was killed outright by a fracture of the skull. Otto Anlauf was injured by a stroke on the head,
from the effects of which he died about 14 hours later, and Herman Rudolph was injured on chest, burned on
various parts of body, and received a fracture of the right am, all due to said explosion.
M. J. Bridge (Foreman) Ed Crawford Bona Patten S. A. Benson
Clark Lewis J. L. Planter
Coroner Cheshire reports a hard trip, and states that the work was gruesome. When he arrived yesterday
afternoon, he found Drs. Wall and Job, of Cottage Grove, already on the field, doing all that was possible to
alleviate the suffering of the injured men. Last evening Dr. Kuykendall was sent for and he went up on the night
train, walking the entire distance to the mill over the rough roads, and back to Saginaw in the morning. Mr.
Anlauf was about 30 years of age, and Mr. Fredrickson about 45. Mr. Rudolph was a younger man and
unmarried.
Not since the explosion of the boiler in a harvest field in the west and of the county in the summer of 1896, has
a disaster of such proportions occurred in Lane Co. and the sad accident has cast a gloom over all who know
the unfortunate men.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5-5-1900

MORE PARTICULARS CONCERNING SAGINAW EXPLOSION
(Cottage Grove Leader, 5-4)
The boiler that blew up was an old boiler, but was
considered safe and had been fired up for putting another one out of the way, which had been condemned. It
was stationed at the opposite end of the mill pond from the mill, about 450 feet distant and when the explosion
occurred the boiler which weighs about 5,000 pounds, was blown across the mill pond in the
direction of the mill, a distance of 330 feet before it struck, then bounded 100 feet further up the hill, and now lay
in the mill.


The cause of the explosion in practically unknown. There were four men working around the boilers, all
engineers, and the only one who escaped uninjured was Mr. Harry Wynne, of this city, who says the last time he
noticed, the gage registered 60 pounds of steam. The machinery in the engine room is a complete wreck and
was valued at about $3,000. However the Booth Kelly Company, we understand, had expended about $10,000
experimenting on this log pulling station, before they got it so that it could be successfully operated. At last report
the unfortunate Mr. Rudolph was resting as easy as could be expected and there is some hope for his recovery.



THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5-8-1900 (Brownsville Times)


GRAWFORDSVILLE HAS COUGARS
E. S. Marsters, who resides on his farm near
Crawfordsville, heard his chickens making a horrible noise Thursday morning at 1 O'clock, and thinking a
"varmint" of some kind was after another mess of foul, took his dogs and gun and gave chase. The dogs soon
had something treed, and soon a chicken came tumbling from the tree.
Mr. Marsters remained under the trees with his dogs until daylight, when he took deliberate aim and brought
down a yearling cougar. A little later he fired another shot into a tree nearby and brought down another cougar,
about the same size. They measured about five feet. Mr Marsters prizes these young fellows very
highly; says it has, cost him about $20 worth of chickens and turkeys to raise them.
SAGINAW HAS SMALLPOX
Judge Potter and Dr. L. A. Paine returned from Saginaw this morning and report the smallpox at that place,
of a mild type and the patients fast recovering.
The doctor fumigated the places thoroughly and left
instructions for disinfecting. The gentlemen went from here to Cottage Grove by train, and from there to Saginaw
by wheel. On the road down to Saginaw the doctor had the misfortune to break his wheel which compelled him
to walk to Creswell.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5-14-1900

MOHAWK EXTENSION S. P. R. R. BRIDGE The great depth of the McKenzie river, 50 feet
at the point where the Southern Pacific railroad bridge will be built on the Mohawk extension precludes the use
of framework on which to rest the structure while it is in the process of construction. Wire cables from
pier to pier will be supported with
pontoons moored in the river by steel cables fastened to the banks on either side above. Work will be
commenced on the bridge Thursday of this week. The material, nine carloads, has already been delivered in the
Springfield railroad yards.


The first bridge across the Mohawk, a span of 100 feet, is also at Springfield loaded on three cars. It Is a
combination wood and iron bridge and came from Corinne Utah.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-9-1900

THE MOHAWK RAILROAD
Archie Mason is crowding, work on the Mohawk railroad and has now raised the wages of common laborers
to $2 per day. It is stated that the steel rails will probably not be laid before the 15th of September. the grade
will not be completed for several weeks yet. The track will be ballasted with gravel taken from the river at the
Amitage place. The workman on the McKenzie bridge are now building the pontoons for the false work to rest
upon. It will take several weeks to complete the structure.
The poles for the telegraph line from Eugene to Coburg have all been delivered and they are in position from
the Eugene bridge to the Calef place. They have also been hauled and distributed from Springfield to Wendling
by the contractor, Merchant Cole of Mohawk.
The mill at Wendling is cutting about 80,000 feet of ties daily. The railroad company this week accepted
40,000 of the ties. They will all be shipped to Sacramento, California. It is now thought that the bridge across
the Willamette river at Springfield will not be built until next summer.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-28-1900

McKENZIE BRIDGE ABOUT FINISHED
The McKenzie bridge on the Southern Pacific Mohawk branch was swung from the false work Wednesday,
and will be ready for trains in a few days - This bridge is a single span steel bridge, being the only one of its kind
on the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon.
The grading on the road is nearing completion, it being estimated that about 15 days work will complete it.
The track laying gang, consisting of about 100 men, will arrive and
commence work in a few days. it is thought that trains will be in operation to Wendling by August 15th.
A report is current that the Natron terminal will be
abandoned, not using track east of the Mohawk Junction. Instead, the trains will make their terminal at
Wendling. There is no news concerning a railroad bridge across the river at Springfield, but general
opinion is to the effect that it will be several years before this bridge will be built.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-30-1900

THE MOHAWK BRANCH RAILROAD
The grading of the Mohawk River branch of the Southern Pacific in Lane County will be finished next week,
according to Archie Mason, the contractor, now in this city. The company is erecting a $50,000 steel bridge,
and several stout wooden


structures along the line, and when these are done, track laying will be put through with vigor. The town of
Wendling at the terminus of the branch, has already become quite an important point, Mr. Mason said
yesterday, and the way lumber is being, made and piled up is a sight to behold. The Booth Kelly mill is putting
out lumber at the rate of 150,000 feet a day, and as the produce cannot be shipped until the road is
completed, the woods are just full of new lumber.
A post office has been established at Wendling and a daily stage from Springfield supplies the town with mail.
When the cars get to running, the stage will give Way to a daily train service, and Wendling will then be
within a few hours of Portland by rail. There are now 250 men and about the same number of teams engaged in
finishing the grade near Wendling, but as most of the men are located in the neighborhood, their services will be
needed in harvesting the crops, so very few of them will have to hunt jobs when the road is completed.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7-10-1900

OFFICES OF THE BOOTH KELLY CO. TO BE LOCATED IN EUGENE Hon. R. A. Booth, manager
of the Booth Kelly Co. is in the city looking for suitable rooms for head offices of this
company. He informs us they will be located in Eugene prior to August 1st. The private telephone lines will then
be connected up from the head offices to the Wendling, Saginaw, and Coburg mills and all the business of the
company will be directed from this city.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7-11-1900

TRACK WILL BE LAID TO WENDLING BEFORE AUGUST 5th

SPRINGFIELD, July 11.-
Track laying on the new steel bridge across the McKenzie river will be completed today. The construction
train in charge of W. R. Bullis, will commence work Thursday, the 12th, and surfacing the roadbed and track
laying will be rushed. The intention of the track laying outfit is to complete one-half mile of track a day. If this is
done the track will be laid to Wendling before August 5th.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7-19-1900

NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO GET TRACKLAYERS FOR MOHAWK RAILROAD Mr. Gillette Of San
Francisco, of the S P R R, is here looking after the Mohawk branch of the railroad. He says it in nearly
impossible to procure tracklayers, hence the delay in putting down the rails on the branch line. The company
has a large force of tracklayers on their coast extension but cannot get enough to send men here. The company
is advertising for 40 men at $2 per day to help in the work, but have thus far been unable to procure them. The
pile driving machine is now working full time east of the Mohawk bridge.


The Mohawk bridge is now done excepting the painting, and a crew of painters are now at work on the
same. A work train is now being employed on the branch, surfacing. Work will be commenced on the first
Mohawk bridge soon. All the timbers are now framed.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8-1-1900

DAVID KAUBLE WOUND AROUND SHAFT AT COBURG David Kauble, an employee of the
Booth Kelly Lumber Co. in their planing mill at Coburg, met with a horrible death this morning. He was caught by
a belt while trying to throw it off a wheel, and literally crushed to pieces. A moment after swinging around the
shaft, A. C. Wheeler saw him and immediately signaled to W. T. Hawthorn to stop the engine. Together with
their
employee they rushed to where the unfortunate man was, but found life extinct. According to testimony of Dr.
Cheshire, who went with coroner G.W. Griffen to the scene of the accident, the injuries were terrible. All the
bones of the cheat were broken, and the sternum mashed in several pieces. All the ribs were crushed in. The
right arm was torn off at the elbow and badly mangled. The left arm was almost severed at the shoulder, the
bone above the elbow was broken in two places and the forearm badly crushed and mangled. The right thigh
was broken in two places, and the right leg broken in several places. The left leg was broken in several places
and the foot crushed. A small fracture of the left temple was found and the neck was broken.
Aside from Dr. Cheshire the following witnesses were
examined, all being employee of the company, and working near Kauble when the accident occurred:
A. C. Wheeler, W. T. Hawthorne, Carp Gray, Herbert Jones, Geo. W. Catching. Their statement is that Kauble
must have gone below to throw a belt to save stopping the engine, and was caught on the belt. It was done so
quickly that no one saw him drawn around the shaft.
Kauble had been cautioned several times to not throw a belt in this manner, and was not required to do so. It
was evidently a case of carelessness on his part, made so by long use of machinery. Mr Kauble had been
working in the mill at Coburg for about fifteen years for Mr. Goodale, and for the Booth Kelly Company since they
purchased the property. He was a good workman and considered careful and competent. He was well liked
among the employee and associates and had no enemies. David Kauble was about 41 years old,
unmarried, and leaves a father, mother and two sisters, Mrs, Wesley Beeson and Mrs. James Tillman. He was
a member of Coburg lodge No.263, Woodmen of the World, West Point lodge No 62 I.O.O.F. and Diamond
Rebekah lodge No.


89. In the Woodman he carried $2000 insurance. It is a singular coincidence that Mr. Kauble was
killed within 10 feet of the place where a sister , Mrs. Sam Skinner, was killed about 15 years ago when the
sawmill was owned by Hiram Smith. The following is the coroners Jury report: We, the undersigned
jury called to investigate the death and cause of death of David Kauble, find that the body before us in the
remains of the said David Kauble and that he came to his death by being caught and crushed on a counter
shaft on the lower floor of the planing mill belonging to the B. K. Lbr. Co. at Coburg Ore. on the morning of
Aug 1. 1900. We hold no one responsible for the accident.
W. M. VanDuyn (Foreman)
H. A. Macey
E. P. Coleman
H. C. Owen
M. L. Hendricks
Benjamin Feeder


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8-7-1900

CHARLES HOLT KILLED
A telephone message to the head office of the Booth Kelly Lumber Co. in this city about noon today from the
mill at
Wendling brought the news of the accidental death of Charles Holt, a 15 year old boy in the employ of the
company, and a request for the coroner. Coroner G. W. Griffin started for the scene of the accident at once,
accompanied by Dr. W. L.
Cheshire.
From information received at the head office of the company it is learned that Holt was found dead a distance
from the mill lying under a sled with which he was using to haul water. Holt had been away much longer than
usual and some of the other workmen started to look after him. The boy had been in the habit of riding on the
front of the sled, and it is presumed that the horse started suddenly, the boy slipped and fell, the sled ran onto
his body in which condition it was found.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8-15-1900

THE MOHAWK BRANCH RAILROAD
Reports from the Mohawk branch are, as usual, not
encouraging. On account of lack of rails no steel has, been laid during the past few days, but nine carloads of
heavy steel rails arrived last night and were taken to the front at once.
Twenty-six carloads of rails are expected to arrive this week. The fencing crew will commence building the fence
along the right of way this week and will finish the work on the.. Mohawk line before quitting. There are 17 miles
of road to fence yet. Mr. Freeland the engineer in charge says the road to Wendling will be ready to turn over to
the operating department about September 25. This means that the road will be graveled and in first class
condition at that time.
NEAR WENDLING 8-23-1900
Lumber will be hauled out on railroad car by September 1st. The tracklayers on the Southern Pacific branch
railroad from Springfield to Wendling are now within two and one-half miles of the latter place.
Track-laying has been delayed by a strike. Forty men of the experienced track-laying gang went on a strike
last Saturday and quit the company employ. The remaining force lack experience in this line, delaying the work
to a considerable extent.


The Southern Pacific give out that the lumber output will be hauled out as soon as the track is completed to
Wendling but passenger and mail trains will not be put on until the roadbed has been surfaced and graveled.

Roadmaster Walt has assumed charge of the Branch road and has been examining, the same during the
past few days in order to get an intelligent understanding as to the needs thereof.
Conductor Bullis has been superseded by Conductor LaForest, recently promoted.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8-28-1900

LUMBER CAPITALISTS ARE HERE
Messrs G. X. Wendling, of San Francisco, and F. R. Buck, of Vacaville, California, arrived here this morning
and will spend a week inspecting the properties of the Booth Kelly Lbr. Co., of which they are stockholders.
Since their last visit the company has greatly expanded its production properties, and the output of its mills is
more than tripled. The Coburg mill has been taken possession of and the big mill at Wendling has been erected
since then. This afternoon Messrs Wendling and Buck, in company with R. A. Booth, general manager, left for
Coburg to inspect the mill there. They will also visit the mill at Saginaw and the new one at Wendling, looking
over these properties as well as the various flumes, dams and other adjuncts of their property.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8-29-1900

ACCIDENT AT WENDLING
Glen Anderson, who has been engaged in felling trees for the Booth Kelly mill at Wendling, met with an
accident this morning, about two miles from the mill.
A large tree which he had felled struck a smaller one, breaking the top of it off. This tree struck Anderson on
the head, knocking him down and badly bruising him. On examination it was found that the nose was broken,
and he was otherwise disfigured. Anderson was unconscious for some time after the accident. Dr.
Cheshire left to attend the injured man, in response to a telephone message to him.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9-21-1900 The Southern Pacific Company expects to
have regular train service to Wendling, the terminus of the Mohawk branch, by November 1st. The train has
been used in hauling ties, rails, act, and has now been converted into a gravel train, and last Wednesday
commenced hauling gravel to ballast the road with. The gravel is obtained at the Armitage gravel pit, three miles
south of Coburg. This train also hauls out to Springfield the lumber shipments from Wendling. The heaviest
shipment yet made of lumber from Wendling, was shipped last Thursday, consisting of ten carloads.


Early in the spring a bridge will connect the line between Springfield and Henderson, and the lumber from
Coburg and
Wendling will then go via this connection. All California shipment south of Tallman will go via Eugene instead of
Albany as at present.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10-9-1900

CARS FOR COBURG AND WENDLING
COBURG ORE, Oct 9.-
The mills here and at Wendling are temporarily happy
again. Friday, Saturday and Sunday no cars arrived for loading. The yard here was completely cleared of cars
on Saturday, but last night's train brought eight for Wendling and six for Coburg.
This will relieve matters for a day. The railroad company is now furnishing coal cars of the Gondola type. These
are hard to load and can be used for ties only, and even they are a scarcity. It is reported that the Wendling,
train has not arrived at
Springfield for several days on account of replacing the false work of bridges with permanent structures.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10-22-1900

THE RAILROAD OVER THE RIVER DOING BIG LUMBER BUSINESS The Booth Kelly sawmills at
Coburg and Wendling, are well supplied with cars for the shipment of lumber these days. The Wendling mills
have 26 cars on hand and they seldom ship more than 10 cars a day. The Coburg mills keep about ten cars
on hand, and they seldom ship more than five cars a day. The Springfield branch of the Southern
Pacific railroad is a busy one, bringing up about 15 empty car daily and returning with the same number loaded.
Saturday morning the train picked up 11 cars at Springfield and 5 at Coburg, all lumber. And this is a good daily
average.
The car famine lasted but a few days, not as long as the annual car famine, and no further trouble is
anticipated about cars. Apart from lumber shipments there is practically no freight moving on the
across-the-river road.

THE DAILY GUARD 10-30-1900

ACCIDENT AT WENDLING
Sam O'Brien, an employee of the Booth kelly Lbr. Co. at Wendling, met with an accident about 8 o'clock this
morning. While working near the cutoff saw he slipped against it, and the left arm was pushed against the saw.
A portion of the muscle of the upper arm was sawed away. He was brought to Springfield on the train this
morning and arrived in Eugene about noon. Drs. Paine and Kuykendall attended the injured man.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 11-10-1900


THE MOHAWK BRANCH RAILROAD
The Mohawk branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Springfield to Wendling, in Lane County, will
shortly be turned over to the operating department. the ballasting, or graveling of the roadbed will not be done
until spring. No regular train service will be had this winter, nor anything except lumber shipments. Civil
engineer Freeland, who had charge of the work will return to California as soon as the road is turned over to
the operating department.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 11-19-1900

ACCIDENT AT SAGINAW
James Miller, an employee of the Booth Kelly Lumber Company was the victim of an accident today near mill
No 1, about five miles from Saginaw. Mr. Miller was felling a tree and in falling it struck a sapling which
rebounded back, the top striking Mr. Miller across the spine. Information received at the head office of the
company in this city, states that the unfortunate man is paralyzed from the hips down, indicating that his spine
received a severe strain or a break. He is about 35 years of age, and has been employed by the company
for some time.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 11-23-1900
THE MOHAWK BRANCH
The Mohawk branch of the S P R R between Springfield and Wendling will be turned over to the operating
district about December let. The operating department of the road will probably withdraw the construction train
now in use on the Mohawk branch, hauling out lumber, etc.. The present train service to Natron is to be
discontinued and ran to Wendling. This arrangement will give the main line an additional engine. The company
has been extremely short of motive power all summer and fall, and since the Roseburg accident they have been
badly crippled for motive power.
A special recently went over the Mohawk branch and from observations Messrs Kosher and Fields think, by
slow running, the road will be all right for regular trains. On the 15th the pay car also went over the
new branch. The filling of the high trestle east of Springfield and at Coburg has been indefinitely postponed on
account of lack of motive power. But as soon as motive power is available, this work will be attended to.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12-8-1900

THE BOOTH KELLY HOSPITAL
Complete arrangement to have been made for the establishment of the Booth Kelly company's Hospital in
Eugene. At a
conference between a delegation of employees from the various mills and the company held this morning, an
agreement was reached in the matter and the hospital will be open and ready to receive patients by
January 1, 1901.


The plan decided on is this in brief Each employee of the company is to pay a stipulated sum monthly for the
maintenance of the hospital and when one becomes ill or injured he receives medical and surgical treatment
free. A board of managers to be selected jointly by the company and employees will have entire control of the
hospital and will handle all sums contributed by the men for its maintenance.
Aside from the central hospital to be located in Eugene, it is probable that branches will be established at the
different mill sites. Drs. Paine and Kuykendall have the contract for a year to furnish all drugs and medical and
surgical attendances, but have not decided on a location as yet, but everything will be satisfactorily arranged by
the time set for the opening of the institution.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12-20-1900

THE MOHAWK BRANCH TURNED OVER TO THE OPERATING DEPT. OF THE ROAD

Manager Koehler and superintendent Fields, accompanied by other S P R R officials, returned to this city early
this morning after an inspection of the new Mohawk branch. It was formally decided that the road would be
accepted by the operating
department.
It was also decided that for the present the Natron mail train will not run to Wendling as the track is not in fit
condition for Passenger coaches to run over. The operating department will ballast this road, commencing at
once, and as soon as the roadbed is in proper condition the terminus of the mail train will be Wendling instead
of Natron. The company has experienced considerable trouble in finding gravel to ballast the road, but for this
fact the road would have been in proper shape some time ago. This difficulty has now been overcome as the
company has now found a good gravel bed on high dry ground, about a mile north of Coburg and this will be
used in ballasting the Mohawk branch.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1-14-1901

MARCOLA THE NAME OF THE STATION EXPLAINED The following from the Sunday
Oregonian concerning the change in name of the village of Isabel to Marcola is
interesting: Marcola, the euphonious name of the station on the new Wendling branch of the Southern Pacific,
is made up from
the name of the wife of a prominent settler there, Margaret Cole. It is a happy combination, uncommon enough
to be
distinctive and beautiful enough to adorn a novel or attract home seekers. It is the custom of the Southern
Pacific to respect local preferences in naming new stations, due regard being had for the utilities of the case.
For example, it would be


confusing to give a new station the name of an old one in the same state. Indeed it is undesirable to give a new
station the name of any other station in the system. It is also advisable to have short names. Not long ago the
Southern Pacific revised its station names, cutting off the plurals, villes, burgs, and other useless parts,
wherever practicable. Thus comes Marcola, rather than Marcolaville or Marcolaburg. The shorter names save
ink and time and reduce the number of errors. The other station names have been the result of combinations,
but none is more pleasing than Marcola.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2-1-1901

DEATH OF PIONEER P. V. CRAWFORD
P. V. Crawford died shortly after midnight at the residence of his son E. J. Crawford on North High street,
from old age. Mr. Crawford was born at Madison, Indiana on Sept. 24, 1814. On Dec. 18,1853 he was
married to Miss Letitis S. Smith, at Madison, and in 1851 started across the plains for Oregon by ox team. It
took them six months to make the trip. They first settled in Yamhill county and in 1853 moved to Linn
County, one mile west of Halsey. After living there a year they moved to the place where the town of
Crawfordsville now stands, which place was named after Mr. Crawford. That has been the family home ever
since. Eleven children were born to Mr. and Mrs Crawford, only
six of whom now survive. They are: H. P. Crawford, a farmer of Lewiston Idaho; Rev. J. V. Crawford of
Enterprise Ore.; E. J. Crawford of the Eugene Lumber Co.; B. V. Crawford, of
Crawfordsville; Mrs. M. A. Dunlap, of Waltsberg Wash. and Mrs. Lou Lewis of Turner Ore.
Mr. Crawford will be interred at Crawfordsville by the side of his wife who died Jan, 13, 1896. Mr. Crawford,
by his trade, that of a millwright, was known all over the Willamette valley, he having done work in a large
percent of the flour Mill now in operation in the valley. Mr. Crawford during his life was a constant Christian,
having been a member of the Christian church since 1828.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2-16-1901

BOOTH KELLY LUMBER CO. SUED FOR $25,000 damages

A suit has been commenced in Lane county circuit court wherein George W. Vaughan, father of John L.
Vaughan, a minor, asking for $25,000 damages from the booth Kelly Lumber Co. for injuries received by the
young man while in the employ of the company.
The complaint, which was filed with the county clerk today states that John L Vaughan, aged 18 years, was
employed by the Booth Kelly Lumber Company as hook tender with the company's logging crew near
Wendling. That said occupation is hazardous and dangerous and that the company was fully aware of the fact.
That the young man was ignorant of the danger and unfamiliar with the work. That on the 16th day of October,
1900, while engaged in this work, the young man was struck on the leg by a log and injured in such a manner
that amputation of the leg was
necessary. The plaintiff asks for a judgment of $25,000 and costs of the suit. L. Bilyeu and Thompson and
Hardy. appear as
attorneys


for the plaintiff.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2-26-1901

YOUNG MAN BADLY HURT AT WENDLING SAWMILL A telephone message was received
here at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon from Wendling station that a young man by the name of Julian, an employee
of the Booth Kelly Company's big sawmill at that place, had met with an accident this afternoon that came near
costing him his life.
The particulars of the accident are not obtainable. The only information received is that he had became
entangled in the shafts at the mill and was quite badly bruised and mangled. The young man will be brought to
Eugene tonight on the train
and placed in the company's hospital in charge of Drs. Paine and Kuykendall.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2-28-1901

CONTRACTOR T. L. GILLIAM LOSES 2,000,000 FEET OF LOGS It is estimated that Thomas L.
Gilliam has lost 2,000,000 feet of timber, between 2,000 and 3,000 logs since he commenced on his last
Mohawk contract for the Booth Kelly Lumber Company. The waters have been quite high and the booms have
been unable to hold the logs. However, it is expected that a large number of the logs will be recaptured between
Coburg and Harrisburg, as a telegraphic message last evening stated that none of them had passed the latter
place. We are sorry to learn of Tom's
misfortune.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3-4-1901

SMALLPOX AT WENDLING
Dr. L. A. Paine visited Wendling Saturday and brought back the information that several cases of smallpox in
a mild form exist there. Dr. Paine informed a Guard reporter today that the disease was first brought to
Wendling about December let by a man from Seattle and has spread considerably since until some alarm is
occasioned by it. The Booth Kelly Lumber Co. will immediately effect a quarantine at their camp and mill, and
everything possible will be done to check the spread of the disease.
No deaths have occurred from it yet but one or two cases are quite severe and may result seriously. Dr.
Paine says the disease is in just such a form as it was out west of Eugene over a year ago when so many were
afflicted with it and a few deaths resulted from it. Some are of the opinion that the disease is not smallpox, on
account of the mildness with which it appears, but those who are in a position to know say that every symptom
indicates smallpox.
Dr. Paine will return to Wendling tomorrow when all the employee of the Booth Kelly Lumber Company will be
vaccinated.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4-16-1901

MOHAWK ITEMS BY A PING YANGER
Ping Yang School house needs a coat of paint Miss. Kerns is teaching the Ping Yang School. We have got a
woman preacher at Ping, Yang. Ping Yang is badly in need of a little missionary work. Mr. Morgan has put in a
platform at his own expense at the Ping Yang railroad crossing. The farmers living near Ping Yang say that the
fall wheat don't look as good as it might. The goat weed has got a big start on the pasture lands near Ping
Yang. Mrs. Hickman, of Salt lake, preached at Ping Yang yesterday to a full house. We learn that Mr. Cole, of
Marcola, intends starting a branch store at Ping Yang. Ping Yang is located about 12 miles east of Eugene . It is
going to be a great wood depot in the near future. If the entertainment that was had at the McGowan school had
been held at Ping Yang a good crowd would have been present.
Everything quiet at Ping Yang at present.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4-26-1901

MOHAWK ITEMS BY HAY SEED
Mrs. Max Jackson of Ping Yang has a new wheel. We hope the lady won't have any trouble in learning to
ride it. Walter Sharp is carrying the mail again.
Charley Hayden can find his lost cat by inquiring at Mr. Fawvers. The party who spoke of Ping Yang
needing, a missionary is off. Ping Yang don't need a missionary, but the people that live around Ping Yang do,
and we hope they may be able to have one.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5-3-1901

THE BOOTH KELLY COMPANY'S INCREASING BUSINESS George H. Kelly of the Booth
Kelly Lumber Co., one of the largest manufacturing concerns in the United States, operating some 20 mills and
owning perhaps the choicest timberlands in Oregon, is in the city for the purpose of purchasing some engines
and making other preparations to increase output of their
mills.
Mr. Kelly purchased two donkey engines this morning and is negotiating for another. He says that it in the
purpose of his company shortly to work night shifts at the mills at Coburg and Wendling. Both of these mills are
now operated on 1 1/4 time, 12 1/2 hour shift. By reason of the increasing demand for Oregon lumber it has
been decided by the company to operate the mills
mentioned, day and night. This will mean an increase in the working force of 250 men, 200 at Wendling and 50
at the Coburg mill.


There being some difficulty in procuring experienced mill hands, it may be several weeks before the operation
of these mills with full night shifts can be begun. The larger part of the output of the Booth Kelly
Lumber Company goes to Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Mexico. Considerable trade with Mexico has been
established during the past year. This company furnishes all the lumber used by Southern Pacific Company in
road and bridge construction, car building and
repairing, which is considerable of an item in itself. The Booth Kelly Lumber Company owns 100,000
acres of the best timber land in Oregon that has not been yet touched, and consequently is prepared to remain
in business for years to come.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5-7-1901

MOHAWK NEWS
Smallpox at Wendling will soon be a thing of, the past, the quarantine will be lifted next week if no more
cases are
reported.
Walter Boggs was thrown from his wheel last Sunday,
dislocating his left wrist.
Last week this residence of Andrew Cox on Parson Creek was destroyed by fire


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5-16-1901

MOHAWK ITEMS
Otto Darelius has nearly completed his saw mill on Parson Creek. Mrs. Jackson, of Donna, is suffering from
injuries
received in a fall from her bicycle. C. Cole's brother and family from Ohio have moved to Marcola where they
intend to stay for a year.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-6-1901

A SERIOUS RUNAWAY
Shortly before one o'clock this afternoon Louis Reninger, of Marcola was unloading wood from his wagon in
the rear of E. H. Ingman's department store, his team in some manner became
frightened and started to run, throwing Mr. Reninger to the ground.
He alighted on the back of his head and the fall rendered him unconscious. He was carried into the store, and
Dr. W. Kuykendall was summoned and attended his injuries. The fall was a very hard one, and it will be some
time before Mr. Reninger will entirely recover from the effects of it. His wife being in town, he will remain here
until he is better able to be moved home. The team ran down the alley to Oak street, down Oak to eighth
and west on eighth to the suburbs of the city where it was stopped and driven back down town, no damage
having been done to either the wagon or harness. A. M. Hendricks was riding along on his bicycle at eighth
and Olive streets and did not notice the runaway team approaching until it was too late to ride out of the way,
and had a narrow escape from being seriously injured if not killed. The wagon ran over the wheel, badly
wrecking it.




THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7-15-1901

PING YANG SCHOOL HOUSE DESTROYED BY DYNAMITE Last night between the hours of
10:30 and 11 o'clock the Ping Yang school house, on the Mohawk, 12 miles northeast of Eugene, was almost
completely demolished by an explosion of dynamite. The explosive was placed under the organ in the
southwest corner of the building. The organ, the desks, and all other furniture and apparatus were blown to
atoms, the floor and
sleepers of the building were completely splintered, the sides of the building were blown out and all that remains
Is the roof with part of the frame work to support it.
This is the fourth attempt made to destroy this school house. First an attempt was made to burn it; about
three years ago dynamite was used and the building was considerably damaged, the benches, etc, destroyed;
and again about a year and a half ago dynamite was placed on the organ and exploded but not much damage
was the result. This time however, the fiend who is so bent on demolishing the building was more successful
than at any previous attempt.
The Ping Yang school house was built some six or seven years ago at a cost of $400 or $500, it being about
25x30 feet in dimensions and a good building for its class. It contained about $75 worth of apparatus. Just
before it was built the district WAS divided and there was considerable trouble over the location of the new
building.
One faction wanted it in one place and another wanted it somewhere else. It was finally built on its present
site, but there has been constant dispute in that locality over the matter ever since its erection.
The sheriff was notified of the explosion this morning and he will look into the matter and do all he can to find
the guilty party or parties. Suspicion points to certain persons as the perpetrators of the crime, but no tangible
clue of their guilt can be obtained.


THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7-27-1901

A BIG CONTRACT AT WENDLING
The Booth Kelly Lumber Company has just closed a contract with J. M. Eddy, the contractor and builder, for
the erection of 20 five room cottages at Wendling. These cottages will be occupied by the company's employee,
and Mr. Eddy will immediately put a force of men to work on them. They will be one-story in height and will be
neat and convenient structures. They will represent an outlay of about $8000. Mr Eddy has several contracts in
Eugene and will divide his time between here and Wendling during the construction of the cottages there.



THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8-2-1901



BOOTH KELLY COMPANY WILL OPERATE THE SPRINGFIELD PLANT The Booth Kelly Company
which now owns extensive lumber mills at Saginaw, Coburg, and Wendling, in this county and which is one of
the largest shippers in the Pacific Northwest, has gained control of the sawmill at Springfield owned by Rufus
Mallory, Senator Joseph Simon, O. A. Dolph and Henry McGinn, of Portland, and which has been operated by
H. A. Skeels & Co. for some time past.
This afternoon in this city, contracts and agreements were signed which give the company an option of 40
days on the mill, which practically means an outright purchase. When the title, which is pronounced perfect is
examined and other minor details are attended to the company will take full possession of the mill.
After taking possession, the new owners will make extensive improvements on the property. They will
double the capacity of the mill, which in about 30,000 feet per day at present, making a capacity of 60,000 feet
per day. After these improvements are made the Booth Kelly Company will be able to cut the immense amount
of 325,000 feet of lumber per day of 10 hours each at their mills in Lane county.
We are glad to announce the change in ownership of this mill. It will mean much for the town of Springfield
and
incidentally to Eugene. After the mill in enlarged, the force of men employed will be considerably increased, and
when the connecting, spur of railroad between Springfield and Henderson is built, which will be done, we are
informed, in the immediate future, Eugene will be in direct touch with this mill as well as with the Wendling and
Coburg mills.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8-19-1901

COBURG IMPROVEMENTS
The Booth Kelly Company began work today on extensive improvements to their Coburg property. They have
been badly cramped for yard room for their lumber. Arrangements were made a short time since by which
property owners adjoining the yard deeded the company the land so badly needed, and for the past month
business buildings were being moved back to make room for the yard, dry houses and other buildings. Among
other
improvements a company store will be inaugurated. Seven carpenters arrived today and commenced
work. Several more are wanted, as it in desired to rush the work.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8-19-1901

PIONEER THRESHER HAS RUN FOR MANY YEARS


Gimple Bros. have the oldest threshing machine in Lane County. This pioneer separator is today running
and doing first class work. It was purchased in 1867 and has done duty every season since. Among, the
modern machines it is a unique specimen, but we dare say none of them cannot or will ever excel its
durability or record. It is an old style Buffalo Pitte, with 36 inch cylinder, jack wheel and a 10 horse power, and
during its career of 34 years it has been a welcome visitor to many farmers every year in Lane County, and is
destined for many years yet. The machine proper is in good working order and has worn out several horse
powers and jack wheels. It has been the property at different times of a dozen owners who repair it and keep it
humming every harvest season. While not encumbered with the heavy