CALAPOOIA LUMBER COMPANY
Crawfordsville
June 15, 1906: “Claiming the Calapooia Lumber company, of Crawfordsville, has cut and logged more than 750,000 feet of timber off land belonging to him, Abner C. Withee has filed suit for $4,500 damages in the State Circuit court for Linn county, through Attorney W. Lair Thompson. The timber alleged to have been cut by the defendant company is valued at $1,500, and the Oregon statutes provide that where timber is cut unlawfully the owner may recover three times its value. Withee is an Eastern capitalist who has large timber holdings in Linn county, and is represented in the west by Thompson & Hardy, of Eugene.” (The Glendale News)
April 29, 1912: “The body of Ralph Newton, who was drowned in the Calapooia while engaged in logging for the Calapooia Lumber Company on November 15th, was found Sunday by a fisherman about a quarter of a mile below where he met his death. Immediately after his death a search for the body was begun and was kept up for six weeks, but was finally given up as it was supposed the body had become buried in the sand of the river. This was probably true when the remains were found only the back of the head, the left shoulder and sole of one shoe were exposed to view, the balance of the body being completely covered. Interment of the remains were made in the Crawfordsville cemetery.” (The Brownsville Times)
May 10, 1912: “J. R. Linn, a prominent capitalist of Salem, who is interested in the Calapooia Lumber Company of this city, spent Wednesday night in Brownsville.” (The Brownsville Times)
January 3, 1913: “R. J. F. Thurston, of Vancouver, B. C., was in the city this week. Mr. Thurston is president of the Calapooia Lumber Company of this city.” (The Brownsville Times)
January 9, 1914: “The machinery used in the large saw mill near Crawfordsville by the Calapooia Lumber Company for a number of years, later being sold to a large timber company of Portland, since which time the mill has stood idle, has been hauled to Brownsville and shipped to Forest Grove, where we understand it will be used in a new saw mill.” (The Brownsville Times)
April 24, 1914: “The moving of the old office of the Calapooia Lumber Co. is progressing very nicely, they now have it almost in place.” (The Brownsville Times)
May 22, 1914: “The large boiler used in the Calapooia Lumber Company's saw mill near Crawfordsville, which has been purchased by the Brownsville Canning and Preserving Company, was moved to Brownsville this week.” (The Brownsville Times)