DEAN & COMPANY #1
Marshfield
June 21, 1879: "John Levar, a thorough and experienced logger, runs the other camp and Dean & Co. take the logs. He also has a track three-fourths of a mile in length and is doing good work.” (The Coast Mail)
August 9, 1879: “Fortunate escape---On Thursday morning Mr. Merchant discovered that the steam chest at Dean & Co.'s mill was cracked and liable at any moment to give way. The mill was at once shut down, and will remain idle till after the return of the steamer Arcata. Had the fracture not been discovered as it was, an explosion, with disastrous and probably fatal results, must soon have occurred, and the proprietors as well as employees of the mill may congratulate themselves upon a fortunate escape.” (The Coast Mail)
August 9, 1879: “We regret to hear of the severe illness of Mr. D. J. Delauncey, engineer of Dean & Co.'s mill, and hope soon to be able to note his recovery.” (The Coast Mail)
August 23, 1879: “Dean & Co's mill is again running.” (The Coast Mail)
October 25, 1879: “1867, when John Pershbaker built the mill now owned by Dean & Co.” (The Coast Mail)
April 17, 1880: “The scow schooner Truckee has completed her cargo of lumber at Dean & Co's mill, and is ready for sea.” (The Coast Mail)
May 22, 1880: “Strike of Mill Hands.---Last Monday morning, a large number of the mill hands quit work in consequence of the reduction to two-thirds time. Their wages are not large when running full time, and the reduction to two-thirds would have left them without a living income from their labor.
The subject of the compensation was compromised by Dean & Co., agreeing to pay $30 per month, and when the mill is shut down other work will be furnished. The men are right to insist on fair wages, and it is but just to Mr. Merchant to state that he says no complaint had been made to him, and that he expected to arrange a new and satisfactory schedule of wages after June 1st.” (The Coast Mail)
The subject of the compensation was compromised by Dean & Co., agreeing to pay $30 per month, and when the mill is shut down other work will be furnished. The men are right to insist on fair wages, and it is but just to Mr. Merchant to state that he says no complaint had been made to him, and that he expected to arrange a new and satisfactory schedule of wages after June 1st.” (The Coast Mail)
August 21, 1880: “Dean & Co's mill has been shut down for repairs a portion of the past week.” (The Coast Mail)
September 4, 1880: “The schooner Emma Utter sailed Tuesday with a cargo of lumber from Dean & Co's mill.” (The Coast Mail)
September 4, 1880: “The C. H. Merchant is taking on a cargo of lumber at Dean & Co.'s wharf.” (The Coast Mail)
October 16, 1880: “The new schooner Gov. Geo. C. Perkins will soon be rigged. She will take her first cargo of lumber from Dean & Co.'s mill.” (The Coast Mail)
October 23, 1880: “The Gov. Geo. C. Perkins commenced taking her cargo of lumber at Dean and Co.'s wharf yesterday.” (The Coast Mail
January 10, 1884: “A new water tank, 20 by 24 and 7 ½ feet deep, has just been built at Dean & Co's mill.” (The Coast Mail)
January 31, 1884: “Too much lumber in San Francisco has caused the promulgation of orders to run the mills of this place and vicinity on three-quarter time after to-day. The hours at Dean & Co's mill will be from 6 a.m. Till 12 m. and from 1 till 4 p.m.” (The Coast Mail)
February 14, 1884: “Last Monday Dean & Co's mill at this place shut down for the purpose of putting in some machinery. C. H. Merchant returned by this steamer, and he brought up a new gang edger, with six saws, to take the place of the old one. It will require about two weeks time to make the changes and repairs.” (The Coast Mail)
February 21, 1884: “Dean & Co.'s mill is again running, after having been shut down 11 days, to make the necessary changes incident to putting in the new edger. The suspension of the saw mill also caused a suspension of the stave mill, which ran short of material to operate on. The trouble is now over at both mills.” (The Coast Mail)
March 6, 1884: “Moses, a chinaman at Dean & Co's lath mill, was struck in the stomach Tuesday afternoon by a rebounding bolt that he had carelessly caused to pinch the saw. He was knocked down, expectorated blood freely and took after the accident.” (The Coos Mail)
March 6, 1884: “Sam Woodruff, an employe at Dean & Co's mill, afforded considerable amusement for the other men about the place Tuesday morning. His libations of the previous night still affected him, and with the first slab he started he went over the tramway, 'belly buster,' as the boys call it in 'coasting.' After Sam reached the bottom, he got up, lighted his pipe and went home.” (The Coast Mail)
May 1, 1884: “J. A. Boutell, a new employe at Dean & Co's saw mill unintentionally chocked one wheel of the lumber truck with his right foot one day last week, and when the performance ended Boutell's little toe was so severely crushed that he found it agreeable to pull off his boot and wear a slipper.” (The Coast Mail)
August 7, 1884: “The largest log ever sawed at Dean & Co.'s mill was sawed there Wednesday of last week. It was 16 feet long, 7 feet in diameter at the big end and 6 ½ feet at the small end, and turned off 2500 feet of clear lumber, without a knot or blemish in it.” (The Coast Mail)
October 9, 1884: “Last Thursday night some evil-disposed person went into Dean & Co's mill at this place and cut in twain the rubber belt that runs the edger, which occasioned some little delay at the mill Friday morning, while the damage was being repaired. That sort of work is very bad business, and the man guilty of it had better pause, for it does no one good and is almost sure to bring the perpetrator to grief, sooner or latter.” (The Coast Mail)
November 27, 1884: “A Chinaman employed at Dean & Co's mill at this place bit his tongue in two last Tuesday. He was pushing slabs and had his tongue thrust out between his teeth, when a slab struck him under the chin, knocking him down and causing him to bite off nearly an inch of his tongue.” (The Coast Mail)
December 18, 1884: “Thos. H. Hicks, foreman of the lath mill at Dean & Co's saw-mill in this place, had the two first fingers of his left hand badly mangled Monday morning by the sudden breaking of a bolt that he was pushing through, when the weight of his body forced his hand into the feed-gear. Willie Duffy was present and assisted in at once stopping the machinery, and Hicks also displayed great presence of mind, or his arm would have been drawn in and crushed. As it is, he will lose two of his finger nails and be laid off for a few days.” (The Coast Mail)
December 25, 1884: “Andrew Bagley, an employe at Dean & Co's mill in this place, had the misfortune to have the little finger of his left hand caught in the cogs of one of the wheels of the machinery of the mill last Tuesday, whereby he lost the first joint of the finger. Dr. Tower dressed the injured finger.” (The Coast Mail)
January 8, 1885: “D. B. Keating is again in charge of the engine at Dean & Co's mill in this place, Ben DeLauney having gone to mill No. 2. The mill here has been shut down thus far this week, undergoing repairs. It may start up to-morrow.” (The Coast Mail)
February 12, 1885: “A portion of the eastern end of the wharf at Dean & Co's at this place broke down yesterday and 25,000 feet of flooring went with it to the mud-flat beneath.” (The Coast Mail)
March 12, 1885: “The Enterprise, one among the first of the schooners built at North Bend, is now taking a cargo of lumber at Dean & Co's mill.” (The Coast Mail)
March 26, 1885: “Mandus Larsen, an employe at Dean & Co's mill in this place, met with an accident there last Saturday by which the small bone of his right leg was broken between the knee and ankle. He was attending the truck that supplies the pony saw, run by T. F. Hall. A large load had been placed upon the truck by Hall and Larsen, when the latter threw behind him a handspike that he had been using and the former started the truck. The handspike rolled to the car track, and was caught and carried by the car until it struck Larsen on the feet and tripped him up. He fell against the car in such a way that he was dragged along the track until his right leg, from the knee down, became wedged between the car and one of the skids alongside the track. Hall, who was managing the car, heard Larsen's cries at this stage of the accident, when the car was stopped and backed and the unfortunate man released from a position in which in a few more second's he would have had his leg torn off. The space into which the leg was forced between the skid and the car was two and a half inches at the bottom and about four inches at the top, and there was an oil feeder with which the limb came in contact and by which the flesh was severely cut and torn on one side from the knee down, while the other side was badly mashed. Dr. Tower was immediately called and rendered Larsen such relief as medical skill could give. The patient will be laid off from work for a month or so, but he is fortunate to escape with that after getting into such a tight place.” (The Coast Mail)
March 26, 1885: “The outlook for loggers in this locality is anything but encouraging at this time. The only camp to run regularly this summer is that one on the Isthmus, in charge of J. F. Dunham. Since C. H. Merchant returned from San Francisco all the men preparing to logs for Dean & Co., excepting Dunham, have been informed that their services will not be needed until further notice." (The Coast Mail)
April 9, 1885: “A raft of 200 logs, belonging to Jas. Wall of Isthmus slough and tied at the upper end of Dean & Co's boom above their mill, broke loose last Sunday and many of the logs went ashore at different places along the slough. The owner was at once notified of the mishap and he subsequently recovered all of his logs excepting a very few.” (The Coast Mail)
April 16, 1885: “A saw that cost $280 was ruined at Dean & Co's mill last Thursday by coming in contact with a part of a broken dog that some reckless chain tender had left in a log. Pieces of the saw flew all through the mill, but fortunately no one was hurt. A valuable saw was also badly damaged at the stave mill the other day by a large spike that had been left in a log. It seems strange men will be so reckless of life as to leave such things in logs, to say nothing about the destruction of property.” (The Coast Mail)
April 23, 1885: “Dean & Co's mill at this place commenced running on full time last Thursday." (The Coast Mail)