BAGBY BROTHERS
Clackamas County - Molalla
December 1899: “Bagley Bros., of Molalla, have just finished delivering 40,000 feet of Oregon oak to the Southern Pacific R. R. Co. for car construction. The lumber had to be hauled by team 17 miles to Canby for shipment.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
January 29, 1900: "The lumber business is active in Clackamas county, and new machinery is being added to increase the capacity of several mills. F. L. S. Bagby, of Bagby Bros., Molalla, came up from Portland this morning, where he had placed orders for machinery that will increase their cutting capacity to 12,000 feet per day. The latter firm is doing considerable business in the way of furnishing oak lumber to boatbuilders in Portland." (Morning Oregonian)
February 1900: “Bagby Bros., the Molalla saw mill men, will put in a turning plant to work up their waste oak.”
& “F. L. S. Bagby, of Bagby Bros., of Molalla, was in Portland recently. This firm are adding some new machinery to their mill and are doing considerable business in the way of furnishing oak lumber to the boat-buildings in Portland.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
& “F. L. S. Bagby, of Bagby Bros., of Molalla, was in Portland recently. This firm are adding some new machinery to their mill and are doing considerable business in the way of furnishing oak lumber to the boat-buildings in Portland.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
February 2, 1900: "F. S. L. Bagby, of Bagby Bros., the well known sawmill men, of Molalla, was in town Sunday on his way home from Portland. He has purchased a lot of new, improved machinery, and will increase the capacity of the mill to 12,000 feet daily. Bagby Bros. have just completed a contract for supplying a Portland boat builder with some oak timbers. Not long since this firm furnished the Southern Pacific with a lot of oak lumber for car building and repairing. The proprietors of the mill expect soon to put in a turning attachment to work up the waste pieces of oak into articles of utility that would otherwise be a total loss of material." (Oregon City Courier=Herald)
March 1900: “Bagby Bros., of Russellville, Clackamas county, are turning out road lumber at a rapid rate.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)