CURTISS LUMBER COMPANY
Linn County - Mill City
Continued from: Santiam Lumber Company
May 12, 1899: "The Curtis Lumber Co. Incorporated last week, has purchased the Santiam Lumber Co's mill at Mill City. A good deal of eastern capital is just now being invested in sawmills in Linn and Lane counties, and this fact alone would seem to indicate that there was going to be a demand for lumber in the near future." (The Santiam News)
March 2, 1905: “At Mill City where the Curtiss Lumber company's new logging railroad is being built, fully 100 men are now employed and work is well underway. Sixty Italians were shipped in from Portland and other points for the work and nearly that many farmers from along the line of the road are working giving the company a good force of men, and the work of building the road is pushed rapidly.” (Albany Weekly Herald)
January 31, 1906: "The big sawmills of the Curtiss Lumber company, at Mill City, on the Corvallis & Eastern railroad, has shut down for a few days. It was stated the mills need overhauling, and the deep snow in some portions of the Cascade mountains has interfered somewhat with the logging operations of the company and a shortage is the result. This condition is not expected to prevail very long." (Bohemia Nugget)
April 19, 1907: "Beyond control and whirling with terrific velocity, the immense fly wheel that drives part of the machinery in the Curtiss Lumber Company's big mill at Mills City, flew to pieces Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Driven on the centrifugal force portions of the large wheel were hurled through the roof of the mill, completely demolishing part of the building.
Two employes, the engineer and the filer, had miraculous escaped from death. They were thrown by the force of the bursting fly-wheel, clear through the roof of the mill, alighting on the ground on the outside. Cal Goddard, the filer, was severely injured but the injuries are not thought to be dangerous. The engineer sustained painful though nor dangerous bruises." (Corvallis Gazette)
Driven on the centrifugal force portions of the large wheel were hurled through the roof of the mill, completely demolishing part of the building.
Two employes, the engineer and the filer, had miraculous escaped from death. They were thrown by the force of the bursting fly-wheel, clear through the roof of the mill, alighting on the ground on the outside. Cal Goddard, the filer, was severely injured but the injuries are not thought to be dangerous. The engineer sustained painful though nor dangerous bruises." (Corvallis Gazette)
November 8, 1907: “Because of car shortage the big mills of the Curtiss Lumber company at Mill City, on the Corvallis & Eastern railroad, 35 miles east of Albany, will soon close down until cars can be secured. Manager Robert Shaw said he could get no cars at all for shipments outside the state, and the mill yards are crowded with lumber enough to fill 100 cars. These mills have a capacity of about 100,000 feet daily, and will throw 200 men out.” (The Glendale News)
January 17, 1908: “A shingle mill, with a capacity of 60,000 shingles daily, will be established in Albany this winter by E. A. Thompson and Elmer Cramer, former employes of the Curtiss Lumber company in its big plant at Mill City. Work will begin on the new mill as soon as a satisfactory location is found. The two men have secured the shingle manufacturing machinery of the Mill City mills, and have also acquired the ownership of a large body of spruce timber, and propose to make the industry a large one.” (The Glendale News)
November 1909: "Curtiss Lumber Co., Mill City, has recently installed a 12x12 Washington Iron Works loading engine and a 16 x 60 Kewanee boiler." (The Timberman, Vol. 11, 1909-10)
January 21, 1910: “The large sawmill belonging to the Curtiss Lumber company in this city is again in operation after a forced lay off of several days, owing to the recent cold weather, and the large quantity of ice in the North Santiam river log pond.” (The Drain Nonpareil)
July 22, 1910: "C. J. Thomas was down from Mill City the latter part of the week. He came down to hire a cook for Camp 8, just opened by the Curtiss Lumber Company near Mill City." (The Stayton Mail)
July 29, 1910: "The Curtiss Lumber Company has installed a new fast feed Berlin planer which is a hummer and does nice work." (The Stayton Mail)
February 23, 1911: "George Shipman, who has been in the employ of the Curtiss Lumber company for the past year and a half, had the misfortune to receive a severe flesh wound in the fleshy part of one thigh last Wednesday. Dr. Beauchamp of Stayton was called to attend the injured person in Dr. Ransom's absence and Mr. Shipman is getting along nicely at this time."
"Jas, Taylor, who has charge of the Curtiss Lumber Company's Logging Camp 3, spent the week end here." (The Stayton Mail)
"Jas, Taylor, who has charge of the Curtiss Lumber Company's Logging Camp 3, spent the week end here." (The Stayton Mail)