BUEHNER LUMBER COMPANY
Coos County - North Bend
May 10, 1917: “The Buehner Lumber company at North Bend announces a straight increase in wages for its employes of of the logging camps and mills of 25 cents per day, which places the minimum for men at $2.75, effective May 1. The company had this raise under consideration for some time past and it is the first advance above wages generally current in the best paying companies. The order applies to nearly 375 men.” (The Forest Grove Express)
October 15, 1917: "North Bend----Buehner Lumber company to commence construction work on new planing mill soon." (Rogue River Courier)
December 20, 1917: “The Buehner Lumber company has asked the North Bend city council to vacate a strip of the waterfront road 10 feet wide by 2183 feet long, to permit the company to install a sidetrack to the Southern Pacific system, connecting the main line with a new planing mill, dry sheds and drying kilns. An electric crane is also to be installed.” (The Glendale News)
January 5, 1918: "It definitely was announced last night by Henry Buehner, of the Buehner Lumber Company, that the deal in which W. J. Slattery, of Portland, and Eastern capitalists were interested and which provided for the purchase of the Buehner mill, ships and timber holdings, had definitely fallen through, the options, which covered a purchase price of $1,600,000, having expired January 1, after an extension of one month had been granted by the local company.
The Buehners are now carrying out an expansion project." (Morning Oregonian)
The Buehners are now carrying out an expansion project." (Morning Oregonian)
August 23, 1918: “The Buehner Lumber company of North Bend plans to erect a large building near its plant to serve as a barracks for additional soldiers which it proposes to employ. The company is the largest employer of soldier labor in the county and will, when it secures the additional number, be employing fully 60 percent soldiers in the operation of its plant.” (Silver Lake Leader)
May 29, 1919: “The adoption of a new wage scale with increase in the minimum wage for common labor from 45 to 50 cents an hour, and a proportionate increase in skilled labor, was announced by the Buehner Lumber company at North Bend Thursday. The increase in wages will become effective at once and will apply to over 250 employes.” (The Glendale News)
September 23, 1919: "Announcement is made here that Henry Buehner, George Sailor and C. . Bock, who are actively identified with the management of the Buehner Lumber company, have incorporated a company with a paid-up capital of $25,000 to establish a shingle mill and engage in the manufacture of shingles. The plant will be located on the waterfront near the Buehner sawmill and will be supplied with logs from the Buehner logging camps in the vicinity of Ten Mile." (Oregonian)
May 4, 1920: "Milton Markham, aged 35, and employed as a high climber at the Buehner Lumber company, was killed Friday by falling 60 feet from a line which he was repairing. He had climbed a spar pole when he fell and struck a log.
Markham was an expert on high climbing and had considerable fame on the coast in that line.
He had frequently been employed to cut off the tops of the trees used as spar poles in building high lines and his work was particularly hazardous." (Ashland Daily Tidings)
Markham was an expert on high climbing and had considerable fame on the coast in that line.
He had frequently been employed to cut off the tops of the trees used as spar poles in building high lines and his work was particularly hazardous." (Ashland Daily Tidings)
July 13, 1920: "George Sailor, head of the Buehner Lumber company logging operations announced the Eel lake and Black creek camps, operating for the Buehner company, will not open July 12 as intended when they were closed two weeks ago, but will remain shut down indefinitely." (The Evening Herald)
December 3, 1920: "After expending a month's time in repairs and improvements about the company holdings on the water front road, the Buehner mill has resumed operations with it usual force somewhat increased in size. Additions and repairs represent an expenditure of nearly $100,000 and the mill is now equipped for a long continued run. A feature of the shut=down was the fact that all of the employes who desired were given work under the contractors while they were away from their regular jobs." (The Evening Herald)
January 19, 1921: "Buehner Lumber Co. reduces to a six-hour day." (Ashland Daily Tidings)
April 14, 1921: "Henry Buehner, manager of the Buehner Lumber Co., announced Wednesday that the mill would start next Monday, and desired a crew of 160 men. Information given us from the office today is to the effect that the crew is composed largely of the old employees while a number are new men. The men registered for their positions Thursday and no trouble was had in getting all the men necessary to handle the mill.
The scale under which the men work is based on the Loyal Legion agreement of $3.60 a day for common labor, with proportionate increase for skilled labor. This scale is meeting with general satisfaction among the men who are giving the firm credit for living up to agreement entered into. This is a better scale than most of the mills of the Willamette valley and at Portland are operating under.
The mill has been completely overhauled during the shut down, and the boilers have been completed, that part of the work being under way when the mill was closed. The mill is in a position to run steadily, and the management hopes that orders will be had sufficiently to keep the men at work at good wages.---North Bend Harbor." (Southern Coos County American)
The scale under which the men work is based on the Loyal Legion agreement of $3.60 a day for common labor, with proportionate increase for skilled labor. This scale is meeting with general satisfaction among the men who are giving the firm credit for living up to agreement entered into. This is a better scale than most of the mills of the Willamette valley and at Portland are operating under.
The mill has been completely overhauled during the shut down, and the boilers have been completed, that part of the work being under way when the mill was closed. The mill is in a position to run steadily, and the management hopes that orders will be had sufficiently to keep the men at work at good wages.---North Bend Harbor." (Southern Coos County American)
April 20, 1921: "Henry Buehner, manager of the Buehner Lumber company, was hopeful of creating 1000-feet-per-day output the man in the company's up-to-date sawmill in this city. With this view in mind he took his three leading assistants to Portland and the Columbia river, where they inspected the highest efficiency mills with the object in view of learning where the output of the Buehner mill could be improved.
The trip resulted in the belief among the manager and assistants that the Buehner mill was quite as conveniently arranged as any mill they saw and without changes could be made to meet the desired output. The mill since resuming has not reached this goal, but the management believes it will be running more than the 1000 feet daily within two or three weeks." (Morning Oregonian)
The trip resulted in the belief among the manager and assistants that the Buehner mill was quite as conveniently arranged as any mill they saw and without changes could be made to meet the desired output. The mill since resuming has not reached this goal, but the management believes it will be running more than the 1000 feet daily within two or three weeks." (Morning Oregonian)
March 29, 1920: "Other logging camps are expected to follow the example of the Buehner Lumber company in raising the price of board on April 1 from 35 cents a meal to 50 cents. A circular letter by the Buehner company declares the operators cannot furnish board at 35 cents and therefore are abilized to put an increase into effect.
Simultaneously the men will receive an advance in wages sufficient to cover the extra cost of board. It was stated that this scale and board prevails in the camps on the Columbia. The Buehner company advises the men the changes is not to be considered a raise in wages." (Ashland Daily Tidings)
Simultaneously the men will receive an advance in wages sufficient to cover the extra cost of board. It was stated that this scale and board prevails in the camps on the Columbia. The Buehner company advises the men the changes is not to be considered a raise in wages." (Ashland Daily Tidings)
July 1920: "Buehner Lumber Co., North Bend, Ore., has completed the installation of two additional Moore moist air dry kilns for drying dimension. The National Tank & Pipe Co., Portland, has installed a Moore moist air dry kiln for drying cross-arm stock." (The Timberman)