BARNES LUMBER COMPANY
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Klamath County - Meva
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Continued from: Chiloquin Lumber Company
April 19, 1913: "A deal has just been closed in lumber circles, whereby Wm. B. Barnes and his son, Marion Barnes, have purchased the interests of J.W. Newhart and W.I. Clarke in the plant of the Chiloquin Lumber company at Meva station. The plant cuts 30,000 feet a day.
Hereafter the concern will be known as the Barnes Lumber company. In addition to the mill just purchased, the Barnes own a sawmill a short distance above their new plant. This will not be placed in operation until June.
With the two mills running the Barnes Lumber company can cut 50,000 feet of timber a day. The company purchased a tract of Indian timber at the sale held last year." (The Evening Herald)
Hereafter the concern will be known as the Barnes Lumber company. In addition to the mill just purchased, the Barnes own a sawmill a short distance above their new plant. This will not be placed in operation until June.
With the two mills running the Barnes Lumber company can cut 50,000 feet of timber a day. The company purchased a tract of Indian timber at the sale held last year." (The Evening Herald)
April 20, 1913: “Mr. Marion Barnes left yesterday for Chiloquin for a short business trip. Mr. Barnes is engaged with his father, Mr. W.H. Barnes, in the sawmill business near Chiloquin.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
April 24, 1913: "In addition to the mill just purchased, the Barnes own a sawmill a short distance above their new plant. This will not be placed in operation until June.
With the two mills running the Barnes Lumber company can cut 50,000 feet of timber a day. The company purchased a tract of Indian timber at the sale held last year." (Klamath Republican)
With the two mills running the Barnes Lumber company can cut 50,000 feet of timber a day. The company purchased a tract of Indian timber at the sale held last year." (Klamath Republican)
May 30, 1913: “A fire that might have wiped out the entire plant of the Barnes Lumber Company at Chiloquin yesterday was luckily averted by a timely switch in the direction of a fierce wind that was blowing.
The mill of the Barnes Lumber Company is a 'dry mill' with no ponds adjacent and had the wind not changed at a fortunate time the whole plant would have been reduced to ashes, according to Mr. Barnes, who is in the city. The fire started from a cinder which had blown into a pile of dry slabs near the mill and soon spread. A large crew of men were on hand, but even they could not have stopped the blaze if the wind had held its course for a while longer.
As it was only an old pile of worthless slabs and an old tram were cleaned up, which will improve the appearance of the plant considerably.
'No harm whatever can be attached to the fire,' said W.B.Barnes, head of the company, last night.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
The mill of the Barnes Lumber Company is a 'dry mill' with no ponds adjacent and had the wind not changed at a fortunate time the whole plant would have been reduced to ashes, according to Mr. Barnes, who is in the city. The fire started from a cinder which had blown into a pile of dry slabs near the mill and soon spread. A large crew of men were on hand, but even they could not have stopped the blaze if the wind had held its course for a while longer.
As it was only an old pile of worthless slabs and an old tram were cleaned up, which will improve the appearance of the plant considerably.
'No harm whatever can be attached to the fire,' said W.B.Barnes, head of the company, last night.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
August 1, 1913: “Mr. Marion J. Barnes has been spending a few days in town from the Barnes mill at Meva.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
August 1913: "Barnes & Summers have purchased a tract of 52 million feet of allotment timber on the Klamath Indian Reservation. The timber consists largely of yellow pine, and was bid in at $3.75 per thousand. Barnes & Summers own two sawmills in the vicinity of the reservation." (The Timberman, Vol. 14)
September 16, 1913: “With a capitalization of $1500 the Barnes Lumber Company has been organized and incorporated under the laws of the State of Oregon. The incorporators are W. B. Barnes, formerly county sheriff; Marion Barnes, his son; R. E. Cantrell, Joseph D. McDonald and W. O. Huson. The principle place of business is to be at Chiloquin and according to the articles filed with County Clerk DeLap the object is to operate sawmills and do other lines of business in connection with the handling of timber products. The company is now operating a sawmill near Chiloquin on the railroad north of here.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
October 19, 1913: “The Barnes Lumber Company yesterday filed action against W. I. Clark to collect $410 alleged due on a contract for lumber. The plaintiff company, headed by W. B. Barnes, alleges that defendant contracted for a certain percentage of the output of the sawmill, located near Chiloquin, and that the amount sued for is still unpaid. J. C. Rutenic is attorney for plaintiff.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
November 22, 1913: “The Barnes Lumber Company was made defendant yesterday in a bunch of suits and liens filed with Circuit Court Clerk Chastain.
One is by the Farmers' Implement & Sully House in which it is alleged that $100.95 is due for goods sold the company during 1913 which was to be paid before November 15. In the same action is embodies one by the same plaintiff alleging that J. C. Rutenic, on August 2 and November 20, performed legal services for the plaintiff company for an agreed compensation of $156, which has not been paid. Judgment is asked for the total, $256,95. J. C. Rutenic is Attorney for plaintiff.
The Klamath Falls Meat Company is plaintiff in the second action, in which $523.21 is alleged due. Complaint sets forth that between July 5 and November 15 plaintiff sold meat and other merchandise to the defendant amounting to this sum and no part has been paid.
Samuel T. Summers is the third plaintiff. He alleges that he sold to the defendant company 1,022,000 feet, board measure, of timber in Klamath County at $3.75 a thousand. This was to be paid for before November 5, but that $500 is all that has been paid. Judgment is asked in the sum of $3332.50.
In addition to the above eleven mechanics' liens were filed against the company by workmen who allege
to have been employed by it and have not received their full compensation, or by dealers who have sold material to be used in buildings.
The Barnes Lumber Company was recently organized to take over and operate a sawmill formerly operated by W. B. Barnes, ex-County Sheriff.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
One is by the Farmers' Implement & Sully House in which it is alleged that $100.95 is due for goods sold the company during 1913 which was to be paid before November 15. In the same action is embodies one by the same plaintiff alleging that J. C. Rutenic, on August 2 and November 20, performed legal services for the plaintiff company for an agreed compensation of $156, which has not been paid. Judgment is asked for the total, $256,95. J. C. Rutenic is Attorney for plaintiff.
The Klamath Falls Meat Company is plaintiff in the second action, in which $523.21 is alleged due. Complaint sets forth that between July 5 and November 15 plaintiff sold meat and other merchandise to the defendant amounting to this sum and no part has been paid.
Samuel T. Summers is the third plaintiff. He alleges that he sold to the defendant company 1,022,000 feet, board measure, of timber in Klamath County at $3.75 a thousand. This was to be paid for before November 5, but that $500 is all that has been paid. Judgment is asked in the sum of $3332.50.
In addition to the above eleven mechanics' liens were filed against the company by workmen who allege
to have been employed by it and have not received their full compensation, or by dealers who have sold material to be used in buildings.
The Barnes Lumber Company was recently organized to take over and operate a sawmill formerly operated by W. B. Barnes, ex-County Sheriff.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
December 6, 1913: “A disagreement of the jury was the result of a Sheriff's jury trial held yesterday in justice court over a disputed title of ownership of a car of lumber. Ward & Obenchain attached a car of lumber supposed to belong to W. B. Barnes at the Klamath Falls depot. The ownership of the lumber was claimed by W. I. Clark. Attorneys Merriman and Duncan appeared for Clark and Keese & Groesbeck for Ward & Obenchain.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
December 10, 1913: “A verdict was returned yesterday afternoon in favor of Ward & Obenchain in an action over the ownership of a car of lumber which a Sheriff's jury was called to settle. The lumber was shipped by the Barnes Lumber Company to W. I. Clark of Oakland and was attached at Klamath Falls by Ward & Obenchain as belonging to W. B. Barnes. The ownership also was claimed by Clark. Attorneys Keese & Groesbeck appeared for Ward & Obenchain and Duncan & Merryman represented Clark. This case was tried last week, but the jury failed to agree.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
March 31, 1914: "The operation of the W. B. Barnes sawmill at Chiloquin has been taken over by the Long Lake Lumber company. The mill will be run in connection with the mill at Shippington." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
April 5, 1914: "The Long Lake Lumber company has taken over the operation of the W. B. Barnes saw mill at Chiloquin, Or., and the plant will be run in connection with the mill at Shippington." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
April 28, 1914: "Following a shutdown occasioned by the breaking of machinery the Barnes Lumber company has again started its plant at Chiloquin, and the mill is turning out 25,000 feet of lumber a day. The box is shipped to the Klamath Manufacturing company and the remainder to Weed." (The Evening Herald)
October 27, 1914: "W.B. Barnes came in last night from Meva, above Chiloquin, on the railroad, where Monday he closed his sawmill after a highly successful season. The box grade was shipped to the Klamath Manufacturing company at Shippington, and the upper grades to the Weed Lumber company.
The season's run at the mill was 4,368,000 feet. The daily average cut was 28,000 feet.
The logging camp of the Long Lake Lumber company at Meva, which also supplied timber to the Barnes plant, has closed for the season." (The Evening Herald)
The season's run at the mill was 4,368,000 feet. The daily average cut was 28,000 feet.
The logging camp of the Long Lake Lumber company at Meva, which also supplied timber to the Barnes plant, has closed for the season." (The Evening Herald)
October 28, 1914: “After a season in which 4,368,000 feet of lumber was sawed, the Barnes Lumber Company mill at Meva, above Chiloquin, has been closed and its head, William R. Barnes, has moved to Klamath Falls to spend the winter. The average daily cut of the mill was 28,000 feet and the lumber sawed was shipped to Klamath Manufacturing Company at Shippington and Weed Lumber Company at Weed, the former taking the box material and the latter the upper grades.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
November 1914: "W.B. Barnes, operating a mill at Meva, has closed his mill for the season with a cut of 4,368,000 feet." (The Timberman, Vol. 16)
November 26, 1914: "The Barnes Lumber company, through H. H. Edmonds, was today designated to furnish the logs and saplings needed for the interior finish of the Oregon building at the Panama Pacific International exposition grounds. The order will be rushed south as soon as possible.
By telephone, Mr. Hyland of the exposition commission this morning increased the size of the order for bark covered pine logs and poles. The order to be filled by the Barnes Lumber company calls for 19,000 feet of logs 12 feet in length and 18 to 22 inches in diameter, and 1,000 linear feet of poles and small logs." (The Semi-Weekly Herald)
By telephone, Mr. Hyland of the exposition commission this morning increased the size of the order for bark covered pine logs and poles. The order to be filled by the Barnes Lumber company calls for 19,000 feet of logs 12 feet in length and 18 to 22 inches in diameter, and 1,000 linear feet of poles and small logs." (The Semi-Weekly Herald)
November 26, 1914: "A change has been made in the kind of logs the Oregon Exposition commission will purchase in Klamath county for interior finish at the Oregon building at the San Francisco fair. At the earliest date, bids on the following are wanted at the Chamber of Commerce:
Seventy-six logs 12 feet long, 18 to 20 inches in diameter, bark to be in good condition; 150 linear feet 6 inch in diameter; 380 linear feet saplings 2 inch in diameter; 60 linear feet m4 inches in diameter; 240 linear feet 8-inch logs; 30 linear feet 10-inch logs; 200 linear feet 1 1/2-inch saplings; 1,000 pine cones two to three inches in length." (The Semi-Weekly Herald)
Seventy-six logs 12 feet long, 18 to 20 inches in diameter, bark to be in good condition; 150 linear feet 6 inch in diameter; 380 linear feet saplings 2 inch in diameter; 60 linear feet m4 inches in diameter; 240 linear feet 8-inch logs; 30 linear feet 10-inch logs; 200 linear feet 1 1/2-inch saplings; 1,000 pine cones two to three inches in length." (The Semi-Weekly Herald)
December 10, 1914: "Two carloads of logs consigned to the Oregon Commission of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition for use in the Oregon building at San Francisco was seized yesterday afternoon by Constable Fred Morley on a complaint filed in Justice Gowen's court by James E. Howie, alleging that William B. Barnes, who furnished the logs and placed them on the cars for the Oregon Commission owes him $71.78 and makes the attachment to secure payment of the indebtedness. E. L. Elliott appears as his attorney.
The two carloads of logs are on the sidetrack at the local depot pending settlement of the case. They are badly needed at San Francisco for use in finishing the interior of the building and it is thought that Mr. Howie's claim will be satisfied soon to permit shipment of the logs." (Klamath Falls Northwestern)
The two carloads of logs are on the sidetrack at the local depot pending settlement of the case. They are badly needed at San Francisco for use in finishing the interior of the building and it is thought that Mr. Howie's claim will be satisfied soon to permit shipment of the logs." (Klamath Falls Northwestern)
May 4, 1915: "Articles of Incorporation were filed today by the White Pine Mill company, with J. C. Rutenic, Frank D. Miles and J. F. Goeller as the Incorporators.
The concern is capitalized at $10,000. This is divided into 100 shares worth $100 per share.
The new concern has taken over the Long Lake Lumber company's mill at Shippington, and the mill of the Barnes Lumber company at Meva, north of Chiloquin. It will operate both of these plants." (The Evening Herald)
The concern is capitalized at $10,000. This is divided into 100 shares worth $100 per share.
The new concern has taken over the Long Lake Lumber company's mill at Shippington, and the mill of the Barnes Lumber company at Meva, north of Chiloquin. It will operate both of these plants." (The Evening Herald)
Continued to: White Pine Mill Company