CALIFORNIA & OREGON LUMBER CO.
Curry County - Brookings
July 1920: "C&O Lumber Co., Brookings, Curry County, has platted the Brookings townsite, and applied to the county court for the right to make Brookings an incorporated township. The company contemplates the erection of a general merchandise store and a cold storage plant. A modern church edifice also will be built. Brookings now has a population of 800." (The Timberman)
1922: From the Directory of the logging industry (Pacific Coast): California & Oregon Lumber Co.; camp addresses, Brookings, Ore. and Smith River, Cal.; 4 sides; daily output, 150 M; 18 donkey engines; 4 high leads; 1 skidder; commissary; machine shop; electric light plant; air compressor; 180 men in logging department; 240 men in mill; manager, Jas. H. Owen; superintendent, H. L. Nutting; purchasing agent, E. C. Johnson; master mechanic, P. E. Thomas; 25 miles built and 12 miles in construction of s. g. track; 60 lb. rail; 3 geared, 1 direct locomotives; fuel used on locomotives, oil; ait on equipment; 44 logging trucks; 2 locomotive cranes; 1 steam shovel." (Directory of the logging industry, 1922)
December 27, 1924: "The California & Oregon Lumber company has resumed work in its sawmill here on the eight-hour basis, after working on a four-hour basis for nearly eight weeks due to tha damage done to the Chetco river bridge, which prevented its use for the logging trains from the redwood camp near Smith River.
The business depression which followed shifting of the railroad bridge across the Chetco and Winchuck is now almost ancient history. Train loads of logs are coming into the mill as usual and with the first of the year business conditions will be back to normal. At the rate orders are pouring in the year 1925 is to be a busy, prosperous one for Southern Curry and Del Norte counties." (Triplicate)
The business depression which followed shifting of the railroad bridge across the Chetco and Winchuck is now almost ancient history. Train loads of logs are coming into the mill as usual and with the first of the year business conditions will be back to normal. At the rate orders are pouring in the year 1925 is to be a busy, prosperous one for Southern Curry and Del Norte counties." (Triplicate)
February 21, 1925: "The local sawmill plant and auxiliaries of the California and Oregon Lumber Company are now back at the schedule which prevailed up to the time of the big wind and rain storm of the very early part of last November, which means two eight hour shifts are being maintained. Operations were curtailed when the Chetco River bridge of the logging road was damaged." (Blue Lake Advocate)