BOOTH-KELLY HEAD OFFICE
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Lane County - Eugene
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1899
January 13, 1899: "The following order has been made by the commissioners court:
'In the matter of the contract between Lane Co. and the Booth Kelley Lumber Company: Now at this time, The Booth Kelly Lumber Company files the approved bond in the sum of $10,000, with S. H. Friendly and S. B. Eakin sureties.' The bond provides for the fulfillment of the contract." (Daily Eugene Guard)
'In the matter of the contract between Lane Co. and the Booth Kelley Lumber Company: Now at this time, The Booth Kelly Lumber Company files the approved bond in the sum of $10,000, with S. H. Friendly and S. B. Eakin sureties.' The bond provides for the fulfillment of the contract." (Daily Eugene Guard)
January 14, 1899: "The commissioners court of Lane county yesterday granted a very valuable franchise to the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. The petition and contract is hereby published in full and will fully explain the matter:
PETITION.
To the County Court of Lane County, Oregon:
Your petitioner, the Booth Kelly Lumber Company, a corporation duly and legally incorporated under and pursuant to the laws of the State of Oregon, now, hereby respectfully asks that Lane county enter into a contract and lease it, leasing to it all the rights and interest of said county in Mohawk river, Mill creek, the tributaries of Mohawk river and the tributaries of Mill creek, and grant and lease to said petitioners all the rights of said county in said river and each of said streams under and by virtue of the proceedings, orders, declarations and directions heretofore had, made and done, respecting said streams and each thereof to be public highways for the floating and transportation of logs, timber and lumber and directing the improvement thereof, for such time and upon such terms as may be in accordance with the statute regulating the matter and agreeable to the court.
January 10, 1899. The Booth Kelly Lumber Co. By Z. S. Cather, Manager.
CONTRACT
Whereas. The County Court of Lane county, Oregon, under and pursuant to certain proceedings heretofore had and by certain orders, declarations and directions heretofore duly made and entered in said court respecting the improving of the Mohawk river, Mill creek, the tributaries of Mohawk river and the tributaries of Mill creek, lying within said county, whereby said river and streams and tributaries were duly declared to be each a public highway for floating and transportation of logs, timber and lumber, as provided by an act of the legislature of the State of Oregon, filed in the office of the Secretary of State, Feb 25, 1889, and
Whereas, The Booth Kelly Lumber Co., a corporation, desires to lease from said county the use of said public highways aforesaid, namely: the Mohawk river and the tributaries of Mill creek, with the right to collect tolls for the rafting, floating and booming of logs, timber and lumber thereon, and to acquire to itself all the rights and interests of said county under the proceedings hereinbefore referred to in said river and streams and each thereof:
Now, therefore it is hereby mutually agreed by and between Lane county, Oregon, party of the first part, and the Booth Kelly Lumber Co. party of the second part, that in consideration of the promises, agreement and understandings of the party of the second part and of the benefits to accrue by the performance of this contract, the party of the first part hereby grants and leases to the party of the second part for the period of ninety years from this date the sole and exclusive use and occupation of the Mohawk river, Mill Creek, the tributaries of the Mohawk and Mill Creek, each as a public highway for the floating and transportation of logs, timber and lumber giving and granting to said party of the second part for the period aforesaid all and singular the rights, benefits and privileges of said party of the first part in and to said river and said streams and each thereof, and the party of the second part in consideration of said contract or lease by said party of the first part, now hereby agrees to secure such rights of way and other necessary rights as may be necessary to its purpose and make all such improvements as it may require or as may be made for the successful carrying on of the business and use of said streams as public highways for the floating and transportation of logs, timber and lumber and keep the same in good repair all without ant expense to said party of the first part and to charge as toll to those who transport logs, timber or lumber on said streams or any of them not to exceed 55 cents per thousand feet board measure according to Scribner's scale, Doyles rules, and for booming not to exceed 10 cents per 1000 feet per day after the first 24 hours measured as above, for the first five days, and not to exceed double that amount for each succeeding day.
Work shall be begun under this agreement within 90 days from this date and shall be prosecuted by the party of the second part with reasonable diligence.
To all of which, each of the parties aforesaid now fully and finally agrees this 10th day of January, 1899.
Lane County By E. O.Potter, County Judge, H. D. Edwards and W. T. Bailey Commissioners. The Booth Kelly Lumber Co. By Z. S. Cather, Manager.
From the above it would appear that a large saw mill, with probably a capacity of 50,000,000 annually, is to be located at or below the mouth of the Mohawk river.
The Booth Kelly Co. say they will spend $50,000 on the two streams during the summer." (The Eugene City Guard)
PETITION.
To the County Court of Lane County, Oregon:
Your petitioner, the Booth Kelly Lumber Company, a corporation duly and legally incorporated under and pursuant to the laws of the State of Oregon, now, hereby respectfully asks that Lane county enter into a contract and lease it, leasing to it all the rights and interest of said county in Mohawk river, Mill creek, the tributaries of Mohawk river and the tributaries of Mill creek, and grant and lease to said petitioners all the rights of said county in said river and each of said streams under and by virtue of the proceedings, orders, declarations and directions heretofore had, made and done, respecting said streams and each thereof to be public highways for the floating and transportation of logs, timber and lumber and directing the improvement thereof, for such time and upon such terms as may be in accordance with the statute regulating the matter and agreeable to the court.
January 10, 1899. The Booth Kelly Lumber Co. By Z. S. Cather, Manager.
CONTRACT
Whereas. The County Court of Lane county, Oregon, under and pursuant to certain proceedings heretofore had and by certain orders, declarations and directions heretofore duly made and entered in said court respecting the improving of the Mohawk river, Mill creek, the tributaries of Mohawk river and the tributaries of Mill creek, lying within said county, whereby said river and streams and tributaries were duly declared to be each a public highway for floating and transportation of logs, timber and lumber, as provided by an act of the legislature of the State of Oregon, filed in the office of the Secretary of State, Feb 25, 1889, and
Whereas, The Booth Kelly Lumber Co., a corporation, desires to lease from said county the use of said public highways aforesaid, namely: the Mohawk river and the tributaries of Mill creek, with the right to collect tolls for the rafting, floating and booming of logs, timber and lumber thereon, and to acquire to itself all the rights and interests of said county under the proceedings hereinbefore referred to in said river and streams and each thereof:
Now, therefore it is hereby mutually agreed by and between Lane county, Oregon, party of the first part, and the Booth Kelly Lumber Co. party of the second part, that in consideration of the promises, agreement and understandings of the party of the second part and of the benefits to accrue by the performance of this contract, the party of the first part hereby grants and leases to the party of the second part for the period of ninety years from this date the sole and exclusive use and occupation of the Mohawk river, Mill Creek, the tributaries of the Mohawk and Mill Creek, each as a public highway for the floating and transportation of logs, timber and lumber giving and granting to said party of the second part for the period aforesaid all and singular the rights, benefits and privileges of said party of the first part in and to said river and said streams and each thereof, and the party of the second part in consideration of said contract or lease by said party of the first part, now hereby agrees to secure such rights of way and other necessary rights as may be necessary to its purpose and make all such improvements as it may require or as may be made for the successful carrying on of the business and use of said streams as public highways for the floating and transportation of logs, timber and lumber and keep the same in good repair all without ant expense to said party of the first part and to charge as toll to those who transport logs, timber or lumber on said streams or any of them not to exceed 55 cents per thousand feet board measure according to Scribner's scale, Doyles rules, and for booming not to exceed 10 cents per 1000 feet per day after the first 24 hours measured as above, for the first five days, and not to exceed double that amount for each succeeding day.
Work shall be begun under this agreement within 90 days from this date and shall be prosecuted by the party of the second part with reasonable diligence.
To all of which, each of the parties aforesaid now fully and finally agrees this 10th day of January, 1899.
Lane County By E. O.Potter, County Judge, H. D. Edwards and W. T. Bailey Commissioners. The Booth Kelly Lumber Co. By Z. S. Cather, Manager.
From the above it would appear that a large saw mill, with probably a capacity of 50,000,000 annually, is to be located at or below the mouth of the Mohawk river.
The Booth Kelly Co. say they will spend $50,000 on the two streams during the summer." (The Eugene City Guard)
February 18, 1899: "Today's Oregonian: 'John Kelly, manager of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, of Saginaw, Lane county, is registered at the Imperial. His company has recently obtained a charter from Lane county, authorizing it to improve the Mohawk river for a distance of 23 miles, so as to render it navigable to log drives to its junction with the McKenzie, where a large sawmill is to be erected.
The contract for blasting out stumps and drifts and building dams on the Mohawk has just been let to a company of loggers, Mr. Kelley says, and the work will begin immediately. A fine body of fir along the Mohawk and its tributaries will be opened by the promoters of this new enterprise, and steady work will be given to from 90 to 120 hands in mill and logging camps.
The two mills already operated by Booth& Kelly, in Lane county, cut in the aggregate some 80,000 feet of lumber per day. This is flumed from the mills, five miles east. to Saginaw, where it is loaded on cars and shipped to California, Arizona, New Mexico and other localities further east." (The Eugene Weekly Guard)
The contract for blasting out stumps and drifts and building dams on the Mohawk has just been let to a company of loggers, Mr. Kelley says, and the work will begin immediately. A fine body of fir along the Mohawk and its tributaries will be opened by the promoters of this new enterprise, and steady work will be given to from 90 to 120 hands in mill and logging camps.
The two mills already operated by Booth& Kelly, in Lane county, cut in the aggregate some 80,000 feet of lumber per day. This is flumed from the mills, five miles east. to Saginaw, where it is loaded on cars and shipped to California, Arizona, New Mexico and other localities further east." (The Eugene Weekly Guard)
April 3, 1899: "The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. are going to enlarge their operations in Lane county. The extensive purchase of railroad timber lands by the firm means the bringing to market of millions of feet of as good lumber as ever grew. Eugene cannot but feel a quickened impulse from the business transactions that will center here." (Daily Eugene Guard)
April 7, 1899: "One of the biggest deals in timber lands in Oregon made in sometime was consummated Friday in the purchase by the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company from the Southern Pacific Company, of a large tract in Lane County, the consideration being $121,299. The lands purchased are located east of and about 19 miles from Coburg. It is the purpose of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company to construct a railroad from their newly acquired lands to Coburg, and the road may ultimately be extended westward to connect with the main line of the Southern Pacific about five miles north of Eugene." (The Medford Mail)
May 17, 1899: "Rumors having been circulated by local lumber men to the effect that the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, owning extensive plants at Saginaw and in the vicinity of Grants Pass, was one of the largest lumber trusts on the coast and determined upon controlling the entire lumber product of the Willamette valley, George H. Kelly, a member of the firm, at present in the city on business, upon being asked in regard to the matter this morning, said:
'The charge that the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company is a trust is false. The company is not a trust in any sense of the word and is bent upon nothing but legitimate business. We do not deny that we own a number of large sawmill plants in the southern portion of the state and have recently leased a number of others. It is also true that have acquired some of the best timber in Southern Oregon. All we hope to do is to get out enough lumber to supply the demand. We are not in competition with the sawmills of Portland, as far as we are aware and have no desire to advance prices. All that we look for is a reasonable return upon our investment and labor." (Daily Eugene Guard)
'The charge that the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company is a trust is false. The company is not a trust in any sense of the word and is bent upon nothing but legitimate business. We do not deny that we own a number of large sawmill plants in the southern portion of the state and have recently leased a number of others. It is also true that have acquired some of the best timber in Southern Oregon. All we hope to do is to get out enough lumber to supply the demand. We are not in competition with the sawmills of Portland, as far as we are aware and have no desire to advance prices. All that we look for is a reasonable return upon our investment and labor." (Daily Eugene Guard)
June 1, 1899: "Headquarters changed.--- Z. S. Cather, general manager for the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, who has been stationed at Saginaw, will hereafter have headquarters in this city. Mr. Cather with his wife and child has taken rooms at Mrs. Whiteaker's boarding house on Willamette street. Mrs. Cather has just returned from California, where she spent the winter." (Daily Eugene Guard)
June 14, 1899: "R. A. Booth of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, of Grants Pass and Saginaw, one of the largest lumber manufacturing concerns on the coast, reports the demand for lumber of all grades brisk. Nearly the entire output of this firm is shipped out of the state, some going as far east as Chicago and some as far south as Mexico. Mr. Booth also reports that wages of sawmill hands have advanced 12 per cent the past two years, and says that competent men need not be out of employment.
The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company now operates two sawmills at Saginaw and another at Coburg. A fourth mill will soon be erected on the Mohawk river, 15 miles east of Eugene, and when this is completed the company will be able to turn out 1,000,000 feet of lumber every four days." (Daily Eugene Guard)
The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company now operates two sawmills at Saginaw and another at Coburg. A fourth mill will soon be erected on the Mohawk river, 15 miles east of Eugene, and when this is completed the company will be able to turn out 1,000,000 feet of lumber every four days." (Daily Eugene Guard)
November 10, 1899: "Several men have arrived in this city from Portland in the last two days with instructions to the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., asking for work signed 'Canadian Employment Agency, E. P. McCroskey & Co., 107 1/2 Front street, Portland, Oregon.' Each of these men had been charged $1,50 for providing them employment and had to paid their railroad fare of $5.00 besides. They were to receive $2,25 per day. One day there were six of these poor deluded men. The Booth-Kelly Co. are not now wanting men at any price'---Guard." (Albany Democrat)
November 17, 1899: "R. A. Booth is now manager of the Booth-Kelly Co., with headquarters at Saginaw. He is a first-class businessman. Mr. Z. A. Cather has returned to San Francisco, and is superintendent of the Pacific Box Factory now." (Daily Eugene Guard)
December 29, 1899: "Booth-Kelly Lumber Co.---R. A. Booth, of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, was in Eugene for a short time today. He reports the Saginaw and Coburg mills as running satisfactorily, but unable to supply the demand for lumber. He says it is likely that the Wendling mill will start up in a short time. He went to Coburg in a private conveyance this afternoon." (Daily Eugene Guard)
1900
February 13, 1900: "Log brand of Booth-Kelly filed, '77." (The Daily Eugene Guard)
March 8, 1900: "We are informed that the Booth-Kelly company have the contract to furnishing the Southern Pacific with several million railroad ties. The mill men have been laid off until Monday.---Register." (Albany Weekly Herald)
March 28, 1900: "Articles of Incorporation. Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. file supplementary articles of incorporation for the purpose of buying, holding, contracting, selling and assigning capital stock of the corporation." (Eugene Morning Register)
April 13, 1900: "Portland, April 13.---Through the efforts of E. C. Smith. a Danish colony has been located on Lane county lands.
The Booth-Kelly company has also made arrangements for the employment of a considerable number of Danish laborers, one hundred having been contracted for in connection with their logging and lumbering interests." (Daily Eugene Guard)
The Booth-Kelly company has also made arrangements for the employment of a considerable number of Danish laborers, one hundred having been contracted for in connection with their logging and lumbering interests." (Daily Eugene Guard)
April 22, 1900: "R A Booth, the republican nominee for joint senator of the sixth senatorial district composed of the counties of Lane, Douglas and Josephine, is a man of pronounced ability and he possesses the necessary push to make his mark as a useful and industrious member of the senate. He is a member of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co and is manager of the Saginaw mills. While his home residence is in Josephine county he has extensive business interests in this county, as his company owns and operates the mills on the Mohawk and also at Coburg. He enjoys a very extensive acquaintance throughout the district and will run away ahead of his ticket in each county.---Junction Times." (Eugene Morning Register)
May 4, 1900: "Telephone Line.---The poles for the Booth-Kelly telephone line between Eugene and Coburg are being delivered on the ground. It comes in on High street, where it will be connected with the regular telephone line. The poles are also being placed between Springfield and the McKenzie river for a like line. Eventually all the company's mills will be connected with this city." (The Daily Eugene Guard)
June 3, 1900: "To The Public ! For the purpose of correcting a base and entirely false editorial in the Cottage Grove Leader of June 1st, 1900, to-wit:
'We are reliably informed that the report that the Booth-Kelly Company had given Mrs Fredrickson $500.00, or has promised to give her any such amount, is purely a campaign fake and made to get votes for R A Booth.'
I wish to state, as administrator of the Fredrickson estate, the editor of the Leader could have obtained the facts had he desired to do so; that I have received $500.000 from Booth-Kelly Company as a gift to pay the debts, and have assurance from Mr Booth is that is not sufficient that more will be forthcoming, and that the family will not be forgotten in the future.
The facts were given the public, as under the circumstances I did not feel authorized to do so; also wish to state that no demands were made by us for damages, and that the amount given and assurances made, were entirely voluntary on Mr Booth's part.
G. U. Snapp, Administrator for the estate of Otto Frederickson
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of June, 1900. Jerome Knox, Notary Public." (Morning Register)
'We are reliably informed that the report that the Booth-Kelly Company had given Mrs Fredrickson $500.00, or has promised to give her any such amount, is purely a campaign fake and made to get votes for R A Booth.'
I wish to state, as administrator of the Fredrickson estate, the editor of the Leader could have obtained the facts had he desired to do so; that I have received $500.000 from Booth-Kelly Company as a gift to pay the debts, and have assurance from Mr Booth is that is not sufficient that more will be forthcoming, and that the family will not be forgotten in the future.
The facts were given the public, as under the circumstances I did not feel authorized to do so; also wish to state that no demands were made by us for damages, and that the amount given and assurances made, were entirely voluntary on Mr Booth's part.
G. U. Snapp, Administrator for the estate of Otto Frederickson
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of June, 1900. Jerome Knox, Notary Public." (Morning Register)
June 26, 1900: ":Telephone Line.---The Booth-Kelly Co telephone line to Coburg is complete. The poles are nearly all up to Wendling from Springfield and the wires will then be placed in position. In less than two weeks all the saw mills of the company will be connected with Eugene." (The Daily Eugene Guard)
July 11, 1900: "Hon R A Booth, manager of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company is in the city looking for a 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.
This will virtually make Eugene the headquarters of this great corporation, and will mean much to our city.
The GUARD is glad to learn this important news." (Daily Eugene Guard)
This will virtually make Eugene the headquarters of this great corporation, and will mean much to our city.
The GUARD is glad to learn this important news." (Daily Eugene Guard)
July 11, 1900: "Hon R A Booth and J F Kelly, of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co, were in Eugene yesterday perfecting arrangements for locating a central office in Eugene for their extensive Lane county business. They succeeded in securing temporary headquarters and will open their center of activity in the Hotel Eugene annex on August 1.
Eugene may congratulate itself on having the Booth-Kelly Co's central office located in this city. As a center Eugene is admirably adapted for handling their extensive lumbering interests at Saginaw, Wendling and Coburg. They will be connected by telephone with all these points and they are easier of access from here than anywhere else. More than this, to have a business with as much capital, business energy and enterprise back of it centered here is a valuable acquisition to our business interests.
Few people realize the magnitude of Booth-Kelly's business in Lane, but a few figures will give them some idea.
The company have four mills, two at Saginaw, one at Coburg and the largest at Wendling. The daily capacity of these mills is as follows: Saginaw 100,000 feet; Coburg 50,000; Wendling 150,000. Total 300,000 feet. The Coburg mill will be run day and night from now on thus increasing its capacity to 100,000, making a total of 350,000 feet per day. This means the turning out of 30 car loads or two train loads of lumber every 24 hours. The force of men required to handle all this business aggregates 450. From this it is seen that we have in our midst a gigantic industry of incalculable value to Lane county, and the centralizing of the business in Eugene is the most important event we have chronicled for some time.
Hon R A Booth will make Eugene his headquarters, and A J Dunbar, now at Saginaw, will have charge of that office." (Eugene Morning Register)
Eugene may congratulate itself on having the Booth-Kelly Co's central office located in this city. As a center Eugene is admirably adapted for handling their extensive lumbering interests at Saginaw, Wendling and Coburg. They will be connected by telephone with all these points and they are easier of access from here than anywhere else. More than this, to have a business with as much capital, business energy and enterprise back of it centered here is a valuable acquisition to our business interests.
Few people realize the magnitude of Booth-Kelly's business in Lane, but a few figures will give them some idea.
The company have four mills, two at Saginaw, one at Coburg and the largest at Wendling. The daily capacity of these mills is as follows: Saginaw 100,000 feet; Coburg 50,000; Wendling 150,000. Total 300,000 feet. The Coburg mill will be run day and night from now on thus increasing its capacity to 100,000, making a total of 350,000 feet per day. This means the turning out of 30 car loads or two train loads of lumber every 24 hours. The force of men required to handle all this business aggregates 450. From this it is seen that we have in our midst a gigantic industry of incalculable value to Lane county, and the centralizing of the business in Eugene is the most important event we have chronicled for some time.
Hon R A Booth will make Eugene his headquarters, and A J Dunbar, now at Saginaw, will have charge of that office." (Eugene Morning Register)
July 11, 1900: "Head office rented.---The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. has rented the south room in the Hotel Eugene, formerly occupied by a bakery, for their head office. This will be Hon R A Booth's headquarters. A J Dunbar, now at Saginaw, will be here in charge." (Daily Eugene Guard)
July 13, 1900: "The telephone line connecting the Booth-Kelly Co's three big mills in Lane county with Eugene and the outside world has been completed, the workmen having finished wiring the poles to Wendling yesterday. The crew, a part of which was composed of Eugene men, returned to this city yesterday afternoon. The others leave for Portland today." (Eugene Morning Register)
July 16, 1900: "Permanent Office Leased.---The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co have leased the rear portion of the new bank building for their permanent office. This is a very fine location and in the costliest building in Eugene." (Daily Eugene Guard)
July 20, 1900: "Vault Being Erected.---The Booth,Kelly Co is having a vault erected in the rear portion of the new Eugene Loan & Savings bank, which they have leased for general offices. The vault will be 7 x 12 feet in the clear and 10 feet in height. A counter will be placed in the room of fine workmanship and the room will be cut up as follows: general business room back of counter, general manager's room, stenographers room and directors room; cloak room." (The Daily Eugene Guard)
July 21, 1900: "Another Saloon.---J Wils Owen and Tom L Gilliam have leased the south room in the Hotel Eugene for a term of years, and will immediately open up a first-class saloon in the same. The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. gave up a temporary lease and have now temporarily leased the room just north of McClung's store." (The Daily Eugene Guard)
July 27, 1900: "Hon R A Booth and family are at the Eugene. Mr Booth is superintending the fitting up of the Booth-Kelly Company's temporary offices in the building formerly occupied by Starr & Aya." (Morning Register)
July 27, 1900: "Carpenters are at work fixing up the temporary quarters of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co's head office in the room formerly used by Starr & Aya. The floor will be covered with linoleum. The safe was placed in position this forenoon, and weighs 8000 pounds, and is owned by J H McClung. It is an old Tilton & McFarland one. It was purchased in New York City by the late J B Underwood in the 60's, shipped to Portland by sailing vessel and hauled to Eugene with a four horse team. It cost Mr. Underwood about $1,000. Mr. Underwood has as high as $50,000 in the safe, and Mr. McClung said he had carried as high as $20,000 in it for a month or two." (Daily Eugene Guard)
August 1, 1900: "Telephone lines were run into the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co's head office in this city today." (Daily Eugene Guard)
August 27, 1900: "G F Wendling, of San Francisco, and F H Burch, of Vacaville, Cal., members of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. will arrive here tomorrow on the early north bound train. The town of Wendling is named for the former person." (Daily Eugene Guard)
August 28, 1900: "Messrs G X Wendling, of San Francisco, and F H Buck, of Vacaville, California, arrived here this morning and will spend a week inspecting the properties of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, of which they are stockholders.
Since their last visit the company has greatly expanded its producing properties, and the output of its mills is more than trebled. The Coburg mill has been taken possession of and the big mill at Wendling has been erected, since that time. This shows the business acumen of the Messrs Booth and Kelly resident managers f the company, and the success evidenced by their business ability is highly pleasing to the non-resident members.
This afternoon Messrs Wendling and Buck, in company with R A Booth, general manager, left for Coburg to inspect the mill at that place. 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.
While here these gentlemen will also take occasion to look over the Mohawk branch of the Southern Pacific, which is being built to haul the product of their Wendling mill to marker." (Daily Eugene Guard)
Since their last visit the company has greatly expanded its producing properties, and the output of its mills is more than trebled. The Coburg mill has been taken possession of and the big mill at Wendling has been erected, since that time. This shows the business acumen of the Messrs Booth and Kelly resident managers f the company, and the success evidenced by their business ability is highly pleasing to the non-resident members.
This afternoon Messrs Wendling and Buck, in company with R A Booth, general manager, left for Coburg to inspect the mill at that place. 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.
While here these gentlemen will also take occasion to look over the Mohawk branch of the Southern Pacific, which is being built to haul the product of their Wendling mill to marker." (Daily Eugene Guard)
September 21, 1900: "Hale & Smith, the contractors for the Oregon Midland railroad, have asked for bids on 70,000 railroad ties from the Booth-Kelly Co." (The Daily Eugene Guard)
December 6, 1900: "The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co are moving into their offices in the new bank building. Their new quarters are very conveniently arranged and well lighted and the office force are to be congratulated on securing such a comfortable location." (Morning Register)
December 6, 1900: "Moving.---The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. today moved their office fixtures from the McClung building, which they have been occupying since the company's head office was established in this city, to their elegant rooms in the new Eugene Loan and Savings Bank building. It will be one of the finest offices in the city." (The Daily Eugene Guard)
December 8, 1900: "The Booth-Kelly Co. have been holding a conference today with delegated representatives from employes in their different camps relative to putting up a company hospital in Eugene.
The company did not proceed with construction of a hospital without first consulting with their employes with regard to plans and details. In order to reach a conclusion that would be satisfactory to all concerned the company instructed their workmen at Coburg, Saginaw and Wendling to select one man for every 25 men and fraction over 16 employes in each camp as a delegate to come to Eugene for a conference over the matter.
Yesterday and last evening the conference was in session and no doubt final conclusion will be reached today. This much is known, that a central hospital will be established in Eugene while branches will be maintained at Coburg, Wendling and Saginaw. Owing to present lack of direct railroad connection with Coburg and Wendling the branch hospitals at these two points are necessary.
It is the intention of the company to build a substantial structure that can be modified from time to time as occasion demands and finally be made into quite a building. Already several physicians have been in consultation with the company with regard to the medical department.
The benefits of the hospital will probably not be confined alone to the company men. Workmen from other logging camps have already asked for hospital privileges.
The hospital will be heartily welcomed by Eugene, and further attests the value of Booth-Kelly Co's big lumbering interests to Lane county.
Already the company are turning loose in pay roll from $15,000 to $20,000 a month in the county and the enterprise has only begun." (Eugene Morning Register)
The company did not proceed with construction of a hospital without first consulting with their employes with regard to plans and details. In order to reach a conclusion that would be satisfactory to all concerned the company instructed their workmen at Coburg, Saginaw and Wendling to select one man for every 25 men and fraction over 16 employes in each camp as a delegate to come to Eugene for a conference over the matter.
Yesterday and last evening the conference was in session and no doubt final conclusion will be reached today. This much is known, that a central hospital will be established in Eugene while branches will be maintained at Coburg, Wendling and Saginaw. Owing to present lack of direct railroad connection with Coburg and Wendling the branch hospitals at these two points are necessary.
It is the intention of the company to build a substantial structure that can be modified from time to time as occasion demands and finally be made into quite a building. Already several physicians have been in consultation with the company with regard to the medical department.
The benefits of the hospital will probably not be confined alone to the company men. Workmen from other logging camps have already asked for hospital privileges.
The hospital will be heartily welcomed by Eugene, and further attests the value of Booth-Kelly Co's big lumbering interests to Lane county.
Already the company are turning loose in pay roll from $15,000 to $20,000 a month in the county and the enterprise has only begun." (Eugene Morning Register)
December 9, 1900: "The business methods of the Booth-Kelly Co commend themselves to the consideration of everyone. Instead of arbitrary procedure in establishing a hospital for the care of their employes they enter into a general discussion with regularly chosen delegates from their different mills and camps and will do nothing in the matter until an agreement can be reached that is satisfactory to all concerned." (Eugene Morning Register)
December 13, 1900: "Arrangements have been made whereby the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company will provide a hospital in Eugene for the benefit of the workmen who may at any time be taken sick or injured. The employes will pay monthly dues for the support of the institution, and when any of them requires medical or surgical treatment he will receive it without further cost. A contract has been made with Dr.s Paine and Kuykendall for professional service and medicines for a year. They will select a suitable building and have the hospital ready to receive patients by the first of January." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
December 15, 1900: "Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company will be held at the office of the Company at Eugene, Oregon, on January 18, 1901, at 10 o'clock a m.
The meeting is for the purpose of selecting a Board of seven Directors for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. J F Kelly, President J H Booth, Secretary." (Daily Eugene Guard)
The meeting is for the purpose of selecting a Board of seven Directors for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. J F Kelly, President J H Booth, Secretary." (Daily Eugene Guard)
December 19, 1900: "At a meeting of the principal stockholders of the Booth-Kelly Co. held at Saginaw a few days ago action was taken whereby the articles of incorporation were changed so that Eugene, instead of Saginaw, is to be known as the headquarters of the company." (Morning Register)
December 24, 1900: "Miss Luta Dunbar is up from Portland to spend Christmas with her brother, H A Dunbar, book-keeper for the Booth-Kelly Lumber C o." (The Daily Eugene Guard)
December 27, 1900: "The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company will change its headquarters from Saginaw to Eugene, Or." (Condon Globe)
December 28, 1900: "Booth-Kelly Co have added a handsome roll top desk to their office accoutrements." (Morning Register)
December 29, 1900: "Drs Paine & Kuykendall, who have the contract for furnishing medical and surgical treatment for the Booth Kelly Lumber Company's employes are making all arrangements for the beginning of their services on Jan. 1, 1901, as per contract recently made between them and the company.
Dr Paine when seen by a GUARD reporter this morning regarding the hospital, said that they are trying hard to secure suitable rooms of a building but have met with little success so far. However, they will carry out their part of the contract in a manner as best they can until such a time as quarters can be obtained.
When the hospital has been in good working order sawmill men from all over the county, aside from those employed by the Booth-Kelly Company, will no doubt take advantage of the institution whenever one of them becomes ill or is injured.
It will be a great thing for the millmen." (Daily Eugene Guard)
Dr Paine when seen by a GUARD reporter this morning regarding the hospital, said that they are trying hard to secure suitable rooms of a building but have met with little success so far. However, they will carry out their part of the contract in a manner as best they can until such a time as quarters can be obtained.
When the hospital has been in good working order sawmill men from all over the county, aside from those employed by the Booth-Kelly Company, will no doubt take advantage of the institution whenever one of them becomes ill or is injured.
It will be a great thing for the millmen." (Daily Eugene Guard)
December 30, 1900: "Walter Ross, the electrician, is installing electric call bells in the office of the Booth-Kelly Company." (Morning Register)
1901
January 14, 1901: "The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co has purchased recently from Jones & Cook, 16,000 acres of fine timber land on Brumbeau river, a branch of the Willamette, about 12 miles above Saginaw. The final papers were made out at Cottage Grove Saturday. The price paid for this extensive tract of land is $90,000.
In all probability the Booth-Kelly Co will move one of its Saginaw mills to its new purchase where there is enough of the finest timber in the state to keep the mill in operation for several years to come.
The timber on this tract of land is fir, cedar and hemlock, and wills make fine lumber, in fact the best lumber in the world comes from Oregon's matchless forests." (The Daily Eugene Guard)
In all probability the Booth-Kelly Co will move one of its Saginaw mills to its new purchase where there is enough of the finest timber in the state to keep the mill in operation for several years to come.
The timber on this tract of land is fir, cedar and hemlock, and wills make fine lumber, in fact the best lumber in the world comes from Oregon's matchless forests." (The Daily Eugene Guard)
April 5, 1901: "Hon R A Booth leaves for San Francisco today on business connected with the Booth-Kelly lumber company." (Morning Register)
March 20, 1901: "George W Vaughan et al vs The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co; damages. Set for Wednesday, March 20 at 9 am.
The following jury was drawn in the case March 20: M J Sweet, C W Mays, N M Clem, C M Deak, P M Laird, Geo L Sears, J H Miller, John West, J D Myers, S L Moorhead, Andrew Wood, Jerry Atkison. A motion for non-suit was made by the defendant's counsel, at 2:25 o'clock.
After a full argument the motion of defendants for a non suit was allowed." (The Daily Eugene Guard)
The following jury was drawn in the case March 20: M J Sweet, C W Mays, N M Clem, C M Deak, P M Laird, Geo L Sears, J H Miller, John West, J D Myers, S L Moorhead, Andrew Wood, Jerry Atkison. A motion for non-suit was made by the defendant's counsel, at 2:25 o'clock.
After a full argument the motion of defendants for a non suit was allowed." (The Daily Eugene Guard)
July 17, 1901: "Salem, July 16.---The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co, of Eugene, today began an attachment suit for $2000 against R T Denham, the contractor who was building the addition to the state fair grounds pavilion. A quantity of lumber was attached." (The Daily Eugene Guard)
December 17, 1901: "To Be Married.---Mr John F. Kelly, the affable and genial president of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co, of this city, will be married this evening at 8 o'clock to Mrs Ida Patterson, a lady of high and rare accomplishments, at her home in Yaquina City, Oregon. Mr Kelly and Mr and Mrs Geo H Kelly left for that city on this morning's early train. The wedding party is expected to return tomorrow afternoon on the 2:03 train. Mr Kelly and bride will reside in the residence which he recently purchased of James McClaren, corner of Sixth and Lincoln streets and which he has had elegantly furnished. The Guard in advance, tenders congratulations. It is now up to Woodcock. Who will be the lucky woman?" (The Daily Eugene Guard)
1902
October 16, 1902: "The Booth-Kelly Lumber company has just purchased a tract of timber in Klamath and Lake counties. The purchase price was $250,000." (The Klamath Republican)
November 4, 1914: "The Booth-Kelly Lumber company Friday loaded a car of lumber in Eugene for shipment to Copas, Minnesota. The shipment marks the entrance of the Lane county lumber into a new field; it marks the development of a field that the Booth-Kelly company and the inland lumbermen of the state have fought for years, though an effort to obtain satisfactory freight rates. The Portland mills obtained the rates when the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation company entered Portland.
Eugene has obtained terminal rates through the Oregon Electric and Northern Pacific, and can now ship lumber into the Dakotas, Minnesota, northern Michigan and northern Wisconsin, including, in fact, the whole territory along the northern transcontinental lines. Though a few years ago this northern territory was a lumber producing country, it is now one of the nation's largest lumber consuming territories." (Cottage Grove Leader)
Eugene has obtained terminal rates through the Oregon Electric and Northern Pacific, and can now ship lumber into the Dakotas, Minnesota, northern Michigan and northern Wisconsin, including, in fact, the whole territory along the northern transcontinental lines. Though a few years ago this northern territory was a lumber producing country, it is now one of the nation's largest lumber consuming territories." (Cottage Grove Leader)
1923
November 1923: "Roseburg, Ore., November 20. The government, through the Roseburg land office, today disposed of 48 million feet of timber, at a public sale, receiving approximately $26,000 for the timber sold. The greater part of the various lumbering concerns making purchases lies in Lane and Coos counties, near Eugene and Coos Bay. The largest single purchase was made by the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., of Eugene, which bought a section of Oregon & California grant lands, paying $44,362.30. After the timber is cut from the tracts the land reverts to the government." (The Timberman, Vol. XXV)
September 16. 1938: "The Industrial Employes union said today that the Booth-Kelly Lumber company, operating at Springfield and Wendling, had agreed to a wage increase of five cents an hour. The increase affects about 350 men." (Medford Mail Tribune)
November 4, 1938: "Mrs. Charles G. Briggs, Eugene, wife of the president of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company in Lane county, was buried here (Eugene) today. She died Tuesday." (The Oregon Statesman)
March 30, 1939: "The AFL lumber and sawmill workers union asked the national labor relations board today to investigate alleged Wagner act violations at the Booth-Kelly Lumber company.
Joe Boyd, union agent, said the formal charges accused the company of failing to discuss a proposed agreement, coercing employes, discrimination and refusal to bargain.
The company explained C. G. Briggs, manager, had been ill and was unable to attend the union meeting." (The Oregon Statesman)
Joe Boyd, union agent, said the formal charges accused the company of failing to discuss a proposed agreement, coercing employes, discrimination and refusal to bargain.
The company explained C. G. Briggs, manager, had been ill and was unable to attend the union meeting." (The Oregon Statesman)
May 19, 1939: "Officials of the Washington Veneer company, Olympia, said today they contemplated a $500,000 veneer plant employing between 300 and 400 men here.
Representatives have been here for some time conferring with C. G. Briggs, general manager of Booth-Kelly and both parties were hopeful that definite arrangements could be completed in the next few weeks." (The Oregon Statesman)
Representatives have been here for some time conferring with C. G. Briggs, general manager of Booth-Kelly and both parties were hopeful that definite arrangements could be completed in the next few weeks." (The Oregon Statesman)
March 5, 1941: "Orders to 'cease interfering' with administration of labor unions were issued to the Booth-Kelly Lumber company and the Willamette Valley Lumber Operators' association, Eugene, Ore., today by the national labor relations board.
The board said it had ordered invalidation of a contract between the company and Industrial Employes Union, Inc., local 80-1, the company must bargain with the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers union, local 2595 upon request, the board said." (The Oregon Statesman)
The board said it had ordered invalidation of a contract between the company and Industrial Employes Union, Inc., local 80-1, the company must bargain with the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers union, local 2595 upon request, the board said." (The Oregon Statesman)
February 22, 1943: "Rayfield Edwards Danaher, 61, prominent lumber dealer, died last night in Ford hospital after a brief illness. He was president of the R. R. Danaher Co., Detroit and the Booth Kelly Lumber Co. of Eugene, Ore., and vice president of the Michigan California Lumber Co. of Grand Rapids, Mich. He was a native of Ludington, Mich." (Roseburg News-Review)
April 28, 1944: "Eugene, Ore., April 28----Robert A. Booth, one of Eugene's best known citizens, is critically ill at the Eugene hospital, having been taken there Thursday after two days illness at his home. Mr. Booth will be 87 years of age on May 15. A native of Oregon, he has lived in Eugene since 1900. He was one of the organizers of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company serving the firm for years as manager, then president, and being now a vice-president of the concern." (Roseburg News-Review)
April 30, 1944: "Eugene, April 29---Robert A. Booth, 85, pioneer lumberman, educator and banker, died here last night. He was born in Yamhill county and lived in Eugene more than (50 years)?.
He was an organizer of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company, and helped organize the First National bank at Grants Pass. Later he became president of the Douglas National bank in Roseburg.
Booth was an early-day president of the State Normal college at Drain and for many years served as trustee of Willamette university at Salem.
As state highway commissioner in the early twenties, he initiated the movement to eliminate grade crossings on major Oregon highways.
A son and daughter survive." (The Oregon Statesman)
He was an organizer of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company, and helped organize the First National bank at Grants Pass. Later he became president of the Douglas National bank in Roseburg.
Booth was an early-day president of the State Normal college at Drain and for many years served as trustee of Willamette university at Salem.
As state highway commissioner in the early twenties, he initiated the movement to eliminate grade crossings on major Oregon highways.
A son and daughter survive." (The Oregon Statesman)
March 24, 1946: "Eugene, Ore., March 23----John Kelly, 88, co-founder of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company and vice president of the Oregon Land and Livestock company, died at his home here late today after a heart attack.
He has been prominent in Oregon business and financial circles for more than half a century.
A pioneer in large scale lumbering operations in Oregon, the Booth-Kelly firm he helped found has been recognized in the industry as the 'graduate school' of lumbering in the Pacific northwest. The company has mills at Springfield, Wendling, Coburg and Saginaw. The Land and Livestock company has extensive tracts of pine in eastern Oregon." (The Oregon Statesman)
He has been prominent in Oregon business and financial circles for more than half a century.
A pioneer in large scale lumbering operations in Oregon, the Booth-Kelly firm he helped found has been recognized in the industry as the 'graduate school' of lumbering in the Pacific northwest. The company has mills at Springfield, Wendling, Coburg and Saginaw. The Land and Livestock company has extensive tracts of pine in eastern Oregon." (The Oregon Statesman)
May 26, 1947: "Eugene, Ore., May 26---Charles Briggs, prominent Oregon lumberman and railway company president, died at a hospital here yesterday after a short illness.
At the time of his death, Briggs was president of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company, the Springfield Plywood corporation and the Oregon Pacific and Electric Railway company.
Briggs was born in Saginaw, Mich., in 1879. He started in the lumber industry at Portland in 1896. Private funeral services will be held in Portland." (The Bend Bulletin)
At the time of his death, Briggs was president of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company, the Springfield Plywood corporation and the Oregon Pacific and Electric Railway company.
Briggs was born in Saginaw, Mich., in 1879. He started in the lumber industry at Portland in 1896. Private funeral services will be held in Portland." (The Bend Bulletin)
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