CALLOWAY-HALE SAWMILL
(Cow Creek Lumber and Flume Company)
17 Miles S.E. of Glendale
July 15, 1904: “An Eastern lumber syndicate has bought the lumber mill at Ruckells near Roseburg, and has contracted with Charles Cheney to move it to his ranch on Cow Creek, southeast of this city. Work has been commenced on the mill, which will be brought to Glendale next week. It has a sawing capacity of 20,000 feet of lumber daily and it will be worked to the limit in getting out lumber with which to build a flume from the Cheney ranch to this city, a distance of seventeen miles.
The syndicate will build a mill at the Meadows next Spring with a capacity of 200,000 feet daily, it having bought 1,500 acres of timber near the sites named. These enterprises mean the employment of large number of men, and as Glendale will be the supplying station for employes of both mills and the flume, a boom in business will result as soon as work begins.” (The Glendale News)
The syndicate will build a mill at the Meadows next Spring with a capacity of 200,000 feet daily, it having bought 1,500 acres of timber near the sites named. These enterprises mean the employment of large number of men, and as Glendale will be the supplying station for employes of both mills and the flume, a boom in business will result as soon as work begins.” (The Glendale News)
July 22, 1904: “Charley Tyndall has taken a logging contract for the new mill at the Cheney ranch. He will move to his field of operations at once.” (The Glendale News)
July 29, 1904: “Cow Creek Lumber and Flume Co.
Manager W. D. Calloway of the above named company was a welcome caller at this office Monday, just after the major part of the machinery had arrived by team from Dillard. He stated that there will be no let up in work upon the mill, the dam or the flume, which will be rushed to completion promptly. The foundation and lower story of the mill were completed on the date named, work upon the dam being started at the same date by a force of twenty-two men.
Calloway & Hazard are sole proprietors of the new corporation, which has ample capital and will make the Cow creek virgin forests bloom into piles of lumber in one-two-three order. Machinery is being placed in position at present, making times livelier in that region than they have ever been before. Contracts for standing pine and for right of way through lands along the seventeen miles of the projected flume are being made with little effort, there being practically no opposition to this enterprise which will be most important factor in the development of this region of great possibilities. This spirit of liberality speaks volumes for the good business judgment of residents along the lands will become much more valuable by the building of the new improvement.
Success to the Cow Creek Lumber and Flume company.” (The Glendale News)
Manager W. D. Calloway of the above named company was a welcome caller at this office Monday, just after the major part of the machinery had arrived by team from Dillard. He stated that there will be no let up in work upon the mill, the dam or the flume, which will be rushed to completion promptly. The foundation and lower story of the mill were completed on the date named, work upon the dam being started at the same date by a force of twenty-two men.
Calloway & Hazard are sole proprietors of the new corporation, which has ample capital and will make the Cow creek virgin forests bloom into piles of lumber in one-two-three order. Machinery is being placed in position at present, making times livelier in that region than they have ever been before. Contracts for standing pine and for right of way through lands along the seventeen miles of the projected flume are being made with little effort, there being practically no opposition to this enterprise which will be most important factor in the development of this region of great possibilities. This spirit of liberality speaks volumes for the good business judgment of residents along the lands will become much more valuable by the building of the new improvement.
Success to the Cow Creek Lumber and Flume company.” (The Glendale News)
August 5, 1904: “Manager Calloway of the Cow Creek Lumber and Flume company was in the city on Monday, when he stated that all the machinery had been delivered at his mill by Austin & Wall, and that most of it had been placed in position. Planks were placed upon the dam Tuesday, finishing that structure. Preparatory work will be completed by Saturday night and the cutting of logs will be commenced next Monday morning unless a change is made in plans.
There were 50,000 feet of logs on the creek bank Monday, many additions to that amount having been made since, so no shortage of material is among the probabilities.
Rights of way for the projected flume which will be seventeen miles in length are being arranged for, land owners being almost a unit in favor of the enterprise, which is a welcome addition to the business factors of this region.” (The Glendale News)
There were 50,000 feet of logs on the creek bank Monday, many additions to that amount having been made since, so no shortage of material is among the probabilities.
Rights of way for the projected flume which will be seventeen miles in length are being arranged for, land owners being almost a unit in favor of the enterprise, which is a welcome addition to the business factors of this region.” (The Glendale News)
August 19, 1904: “Judge Minard acquitted himself royally by securing the acquittal in justice court of Jo Farquer, charged with assault on Hale of sawmill fame, Thursday. If Minard could secure the permanent removal from Glendale of that brace of unworthies, Calloway and Hale, our people would rise up and call him a public benefactor.” (The Glendale News)
August 19, 1904: “Cow Creek Lumber and Flume company has been attached for labor, cartage and other bills aggregating about $1,700, with other claims to be considered later. When Manager Calloway came to Glendale six weeks ago he made contracts for necessary expenses of many kinds, promising in each instance that payment would be made as soon as services were rendered. The services were rendered all right in every case, but payment has not been made in a single instance.
Calloway stated on several occasions that he has a partner named Hazard in San Francisco; that Hazard is independently rich, that he would be in Glendale on various dates; that all accounts would be paid in full upon Hazard's arrival, and other similar statements, all of which have proven to be 'but children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy.'
A search of the records shows that a mortgage for $3,500 was given upon the mill to a Mr. Hale, on August 4th, that amount being more than the mill is worth. Hale owned the mill before it was brought here. Needless to say there are many unpaid workingmen who fail to enjoy the present situation, which has given rise to ugly rumors and which will result in much litigation. One point is assured, that is that Mr. Hale's mill has been moved from a treeless region to the best timber belt in Oregon.
At whose expense?
Who planned the removal and the mortgaging in excess of the value of the plant? It is evident that unpaid workingmen are the victims---who expected to gain by defrauding them?
Are the schemers unprincipled knaves or are they only cheap ignoramuses who imagine the average Oregonian is a good thing, in the parlance of the street?
Interested parties are trying to determine whether Mr. Calloway is simply a financier of the rainbow chasing vintage, who imagined he could annex a saw mill simply because he wanted one, without a dollar in his jeans, or whether he did have promises of support from men of money. He has given at least one check upon a bank in which he had no deposit, which act is a criminal offense. Whether he will be proceeded against upon a criminal charge has not been determined.
A Mr. Swarts of Salem was in Glendale last week, as was stated in this paper. He said he was going to invest some thousands of dollars in the mill and straighten out all its financial entanglement. Mr. Swarts has kept his promises---after the manner in which Mr. Calloway did (not) keep those he made.
There is no more favorable location for a mill than that chosen by Calloway, therefore it is probable that the plant will change ownership in the near future and be run by some business man upon a more substantial basis than moonbeams and gall.” (The Glendale News)
Calloway stated on several occasions that he has a partner named Hazard in San Francisco; that Hazard is independently rich, that he would be in Glendale on various dates; that all accounts would be paid in full upon Hazard's arrival, and other similar statements, all of which have proven to be 'but children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy.'
A search of the records shows that a mortgage for $3,500 was given upon the mill to a Mr. Hale, on August 4th, that amount being more than the mill is worth. Hale owned the mill before it was brought here. Needless to say there are many unpaid workingmen who fail to enjoy the present situation, which has given rise to ugly rumors and which will result in much litigation. One point is assured, that is that Mr. Hale's mill has been moved from a treeless region to the best timber belt in Oregon.
At whose expense?
Who planned the removal and the mortgaging in excess of the value of the plant? It is evident that unpaid workingmen are the victims---who expected to gain by defrauding them?
Are the schemers unprincipled knaves or are they only cheap ignoramuses who imagine the average Oregonian is a good thing, in the parlance of the street?
Interested parties are trying to determine whether Mr. Calloway is simply a financier of the rainbow chasing vintage, who imagined he could annex a saw mill simply because he wanted one, without a dollar in his jeans, or whether he did have promises of support from men of money. He has given at least one check upon a bank in which he had no deposit, which act is a criminal offense. Whether he will be proceeded against upon a criminal charge has not been determined.
A Mr. Swarts of Salem was in Glendale last week, as was stated in this paper. He said he was going to invest some thousands of dollars in the mill and straighten out all its financial entanglement. Mr. Swarts has kept his promises---after the manner in which Mr. Calloway did (not) keep those he made.
There is no more favorable location for a mill than that chosen by Calloway, therefore it is probable that the plant will change ownership in the near future and be run by some business man upon a more substantial basis than moonbeams and gall.” (The Glendale News)
September 23, 1904: “The Calloway-Hale sawmill on the Cheney ranch 17 miles southeast of this city, was sold on attachment Thursday, to satisfy a claim of E. W. Wall. Chas. Austin bought the property, subject to laborers' liens amounting to several hundreds of dollars. W. D. Calloway says that he will soon have funds sufficient to pay all claims against the property, and that he will redeem it. His words are familiar to our people, having been repeated times without limit.
The liens will be settled in court next month.” (The Glendale News)
The liens will be settled in court next month.” (The Glendale News)
October 14, 1904: “The Calloway-Hale sawmill has not been sold yet except at sheriff's sale.” (The Glendale News)
October 28, 1904: “When the Calloway-Hale sawmill, that is located on the Cheney ranch seventeen miles southeast of this city, was sold at sheriff's sale last month, it was bid in by Chas. B. Austin. Under the law the alleged owners of that property had thirty days in which to redeem. They allowed that time to elapse without taking steps toward redemption and now the attorneys of Messrs. Wall, Austin & Wall, state that the mill belongs to that firm, as a result of non-action on the part of the Hale-Calloway claimants. Here is a fine opening for a hard-fought law suit.” (The Glendale News)
November 18, 1904: “Messrs. Bond and Schwartz of Salem have been here for several days looking into the status of the Calloway-Hale sawmill, which Calloway had moved from Ruckels and built on the Cheney ranch without a dime on earth to call his own, though he had nerve enough to have paid the national debt, provided that the debt were payable in cheap gall. He also employed twenty men to work for him for periods ranging from a few days to two months, not one of these men ever receiving a red scotch baubee for their labor. This record entitles him to the rank of past master of the school of effrontery and cheek.
The mill now stands in the name of Wall, Austin & Wall, who obtained title thereto by attachments and sheriff's sales. Mr. Bond says that he represents a syndicate of Portland capitalists who will but the mill and pay all liens against the same, in case they decide to invest in a complicated title.
There is no better location for a mill than the one in question, which will no doubt soon be bought by some man or syndicate who will substitute gold coin for Calloway's nerve, and thereby develop a valuable property.” (The Glendale News)
The mill now stands in the name of Wall, Austin & Wall, who obtained title thereto by attachments and sheriff's sales. Mr. Bond says that he represents a syndicate of Portland capitalists who will but the mill and pay all liens against the same, in case they decide to invest in a complicated title.
There is no better location for a mill than the one in question, which will no doubt soon be bought by some man or syndicate who will substitute gold coin for Calloway's nerve, and thereby develop a valuable property.” (The Glendale News)
December 23, 1904: “The Calloway-Hale sawmill on the Cheney ranch will have another inning in court next month. Wall, Austin & Wall are plaintiffs, and it looks as though they would be awarded the whole outfit upon liens. Calloway, who moved the mill with gall and moonbeams but who was innocent of cash, will probably retain his ('gassing') interest outside of it.” (The Glendale News)