BROWN LUMBER COMPANY
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Lane County - Cottage Grove
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January 19, 1906: "The Brown Lumber company of Eugene has just been incorporated and will operate the LOng & Bingham sawmill at Cottage Grove, which has remained idle for the past year or two on account of litigation. The plant has a capacity 50,000 feet of lumber each day and is complete in every particular. The new company owns and controls a large amount of timber above Cottage Grove and the logs to be sawed by the mill will be transported by the Oregon & Southeastern railroad.
The new company filed articles of incorporation yesterday. The incorporators are W. E. Brown, president, and F. W. Osburn, cashier of the Eugene Loan & Savings bank, George H. Kelly of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company, and Henry Fischer of the Fischer Lumber company at Marcola. The capital stock is $40,000." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
The new company filed articles of incorporation yesterday. The incorporators are W. E. Brown, president, and F. W. Osburn, cashier of the Eugene Loan & Savings bank, George H. Kelly of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company, and Henry Fischer of the Fischer Lumber company at Marcola. The capital stock is $40,000." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
May 9, 1906: "The Brown Lumber Co. has been waiting for several weeks for the new live rolls that are to be put in the mill. The carriage was rebuilt last week. A 'niger' is being built to turn and handle the logs on the carriage. A new slab slasher is being put in place and a new band saw is ordered which will be put in place to cut up all the small stuff, and take the work away from the main saws. Other improvements are planned and Manager Fischer hopes before long to have the mill cutting close to 75,000 feet of lumber per day instead of the 30,000 it was supposed to cut when he took hold of it. He is greatly pleased at the steady running of the mill, and the absence of shut downs. The runs per day now is about 50,000." (Bohemia Nugget)
September 27, 1906: "J. A. Richmond, of this city, was accidentally killed in a peculiar manner here last evening. He was at the Brown Lumber Company's mill, rolling a load of lumber on a truck along the platform when one wheel of the truck broke through the platform. The truck careened and struck him, knocking him onto the railroad track. His head struck one of the rails, his skull being crushed by the force of the fall. He never regained consciousness and died soon afterward." (Eugene Weekly Guard)
January 4, 1912: "The Brown Lumber Co.'s big mill at this place is again in operation, after a two-months' shut down for repairs and to allow the lumber market to settle down.
An eight-hour shift will be on during January, with which it is figured to get out about two-thirds of the capacity of the mill. The logging crews are not in shape at present to furnish enough logs to run the mill again at its full capacity, but it is expected that by February 1st a full crew can be put to work.
With the Brown mill again in operation and with talk of the Jones mill being moved here from Disston, things are looking up in the lumber line." (Cottage Grove Sentinel)
An eight-hour shift will be on during January, with which it is figured to get out about two-thirds of the capacity of the mill. The logging crews are not in shape at present to furnish enough logs to run the mill again at its full capacity, but it is expected that by February 1st a full crew can be put to work.
With the Brown mill again in operation and with talk of the Jones mill being moved here from Disston, things are looking up in the lumber line." (Cottage Grove Sentinel)
January 4, 1912: "The Brown Lumber Co. has the spur up Cedar creek in shape now so it can log in good shape. There are two settings of chutes built and things are moving nicely." (Cottage Grove Sentinel)
January 12, 1912: “The Brown lumber company's mill at this place is again in operation after a two month's shutdown for repairs and improvements. An eight-hour shift will prevail in January, but is expected that by the first of February the logging crews will have enough logs on hand to warrant running a full crew full time.” (The Yoncalla Times)
November 15, 1917: "The Brown Lumber company is rebuilding its mill at Cottage Grove." (Halsey Enterprise)