BAY CITY SAWMILL
Isthmus Slough
December 12, 1889: “Several vessels are loading at the Bay City mill.” (The Coast Mail)
July 24, 1890: “The cylinder head blew out at the Bay City mill early this week, and the mill has been closed down for repairs.” (The Coast Mail)
July 27, 1901: “The steam schooner Acme went to sea Tuesday, heavily laden with lumber from the Bay City mill.” (The Coast Mail)
October 12, 1901: “The Steamer Brunswick sailed Tuesday for San Pedro with a cargo of lumber from the Bay City mills.” (The Coast Mail)
October 19, 1901: “Robt. Kruger brought a raft from the Wasson camp on South slough to the Bay City mill this week.” (The Coast Mail)
October 19, 1901: “On Wednesday, Wm. Richards, while planing a piece of machinery for the Crescent Coal & Navigation Co., at the Bay City mill caught the little finger of his left hand in the machinery and it was badly mashed. Dr. McCormac thinks he will save the member.” (The Coast Mail)
December 14, 1901: “The steamer Brunswick has been taking a cargo of lumber at the Bay City mill this week. She carries 350,000 feet, and will tow the Marshfield carrying over 500,000, to San Francisco. They left the Marshfield dock yesterday.” (The Coast Mail)
December 28, 1901: “Folks in the vicinity of the Bay City mill had a Christmas tree in the mill cookhouse on Christmas eve, and enjoyed a very pleasant time.” (The Coast Mail)
February 1, 1902: “The Bay City Mill was disabled Thursday by blowing a hole in boilers. It will start up again Monday morning.” (The Coast Mail)
February 15, 1902: “Schooner Emma Utter has finished loading lumber at Bay City and will probably be towed to sea today.” (The Coast Mail)
April 5, 1902: “The Brunswick passed down the bay yesterday morning, loaded to the guards with lumber from the Bay City mill and with C. H. Merchant on the bridge as pilot.” (The Coast Mail)
April 26, 1902: “The schooner Polaris was towed to Bay City mill Thursday where she will take on a cargo of lumber for San Francisco.” (The Coast Mail)
April 26, 1902: “The schooner Polaris was towed to Bay City mill Thursday where she will take on a cargo of lumber for San Francisco.” (The Coast Mail)
April 26, 1902: “The schooner Emma Utter passed down the bay Wednesday with a load of lumber from the Bay City mill, for San Pedro.” (The Coast Mail)
May 10, 1902: “Bay City mill was closed down yesterday afternoon on account of an accident to the bandsaw carriage.” (The Coast Mail)
August 23, 1902: “Bay City Mill. Location, Isthmus slough, Robert McCann, Superintendent. Dean & Co., proprietors. Sixty thousand feet of lumber daily is the output of this mill. Forty-five men are employed at this mill and 150 in the woods.” (The Coast Mail)
October 25, 1902: “Bay City mill is shut down for repairs.”
“New boilers have been ordered for the Bay City mill. They are expected here by Dec. 15th.” (The Coast Mail)
“New boilers have been ordered for the Bay City mill. They are expected here by Dec. 15th.” (The Coast Mail)
March 22, 1917: "The management of the Bay Park sawmill has contracted for a log supply of over 15,000,000 feet to be cut by Jack Bester on the Siuslaw river and forwarded to this city by rail. The cut will be strictly fir, although there is about the same amount of red cedar on the tracts. The cedar will be sold to the various shingle mills on the Siuslaw river, one of which, the Buck mill, is about ready to operate with six machines. The Bay Park mill recently contracted with new sales agents in San Francisco and the arrangement calls for a continuous supply of mill run lumber and special orders." (The Forest Grove Express)
June 5, 1919: “The Bay City sawmill Thursday announced it had met the prevailing minimum schedule of $4 per day for common labor and declared a night shift will be added at the mill Thursday. The mill was unable to operate on night schedule on attempting to recently, because the wagon wages were to low.” (The Glendale News)