E. & B. SHINGLE COMPANY
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Lane County - Upper Maple Creek
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May 2, 1922: "W. P. Erhart, of Canary, has bought 1,250,000 feet of cedar timber on Riddle creek, a branch of Maple creek, about four miles from Canary, for 1.25 per thousand." (The Eugene Daily Guard)
July 27, 1928: “W. P. Erhart of the E. & B. Shingle Co. returned Sunday from a business trip to Eugene.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
August 3, 1928: “W. P. Erhart of the E & B Shingle Co. made a trip to Florence by motor Sunday to consult Dr. Edwards. Dr. Edwards removed a large splinter from Mr. Erhart's finger that had worked down near the bone and had caused infection.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
August 3, 1928: “W. P. Erhart returned to his home at Canary Tuesday after spending several weeks on Siltcoos lake rebuilding a launch that formerly came from the Siuslaw river. Mr. Erhart will start immediately on repair work on his shingle mill with the expectation of having it ready to start up by the first of next week. Mr. Erhart has not been running the mill for the past year on the account of the demand for shingles being so slack.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
August 10, 1928: “The E. & B. Shingle Co. reopened its mill here Thursday of this week after a year of idleness. The mill has been shut down because of the market slackening up. Orders for the company's product already on hand include a carload shipment to Eugene. 'Blackie' Berkenshaw is now head sawyer in the plant. Only the three best grades are made.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
October 12, 1928: “Mrs. Martha Fisk returned from Eugene last week and is now cooking at the E & B shingle mill, where her brother, W. P. Erhart, is manager and part owner.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
October 26, 1928: “E. P. Erhart of the E. & B. Shingle Company delivered shingles to Walter Smith at Siltcoos Wednesday to re-roof his house.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
February 1, 1929: “W. P. Erhart figured in a deal this week for the purchase of the old Smith & Dixson mill site just above the Siltcoos railway station. He intends to use the property for a new sawmill. The deal was handled by Darling & Drew of Eugene, who it is said, are proposing to eventually construct a municipal dock also.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
April 26, 1929: “W. P. Erhart of the E & B Shingle Co. of Canary spent a part of last week at Siltcoos Ranch where he and his brother G. G. spent a part of the time making plans for the new saw mill W. P. expects to erect in the near future on the mill site at Siltcoos station recently bought from Smith and Dixon. He is planning to rush the work to get several orders for barn lumber out in time for the farmers to get their barns up and enclosed in time for the season's crop of hay. This will fill a long felt want in the lake district, especially since there are prospects for the building of so many summer homes here and as there is rather serious talk of a large summer resort going in on the east end of the lake with work to commence this summer. If the deal succeeds this will include the building of a bridge from the old Miller ranch to Siltcoos station.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
May 17, 1929: “W. P. Erhart was a guest at the D. C. Harrington home Sunday. Mr. Erhard expects to begin logging operations in the near future, getting out cedar for his shingle mill here. He already has orders for 15000 shingles.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
May 31, 1929: “G. G. Erhart, son Orville, and F. E. Goude of Westlake spent part of last week installing new flues in the boiler of the donkey engine at the E & B Shingle Co.'s plant here. The mill starts sawing next Tuesday.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
June 7, 1929: “The E & B Shingle camp has closed down for four or five days while the manager, W. P. Erhart, and crew have gone to Gardiner to bring in some machinery.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
August 16, 1929: “The E. & B. Shingle company shipped out the first carload of shingles Wednesday. They are of the Extra Star grade and were consigned to the Gardiner Mill Co. at Gardiner. The timber from which the E. B. are making their shingles is considered by experts to be unexcelled.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
August 30, 1929: “The E. & B. Shingle Co. shipped their second carload of shingles Wednesday. The shingles are Star A Star brand and were consigned to a Roseburg firm.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
August 30, 1929: “W. P. Erhart, manager of the E. & B. Shingle Co., was painfully injured last Friday morning about 10 o'clock when he was struck by a line and thrown 15 or 20 feet from a pile of logs on which he was standing and struck across another log, resulting in four broken ribs and badly dislocated shoulder. He was rushed to a Eugene hospital accompanied by his niece and nephew, Aurilla and Orville. The mill resumed operation Monday morning under charge of Grant Erhart of Siltcoos lake.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
September 6, 1929: “The E. & B. shingle mill closed down Saturday night, but expects to begin sawing again in a few days.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
September 20, 1929: “The E. & B. shingle mill resumed operations Monday morning after being closed a few days to have the boilers inspected. Bob Herron of Portland is doing the sawing.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
October 4, 1929: “The E. & B. shingle mill resumed operations Wednesday morning, with Art Tenman of Kelso, Wn., doing the sawing.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
October 11, 1929: “The E. & B. Shingle Company shipped another car load of shingles south last week.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
November 1, 1929: “The E. & B. shingle mill closed down for the season last Saturday.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
July 25, 1930: “The W. P. Erhart shingle mill has been leased to Mr. Mills who will begin operations this week. Extensive repairs have been made.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
December 12, 1930: “A new sawmill is going up at the railroad station here. W. P. Erhart, who operated the E. & B. Shingle company on upper Maple creek since 1920, is building on the old mill site. The E. $ B. mill was built in 1915. Mr. Erhart is moving his mill machinery in and will build on more after he starts sawing lumber. The new mill holds a commanding site, being on deep water, well protected from heavy storms and having a railroad siding running into the property. This industry is going to fill a long felt want in the lake district as the expense of shipped in lumber has held down building in the community. This especially since the burning of the H. P. Dutton mill at Westlake. It is planned to install a planer in the mill later on.
G. G. Erhart, who has had much experience in sawmill work in several big Portland mills and the C. A. Smith Lumber Co. at Marshfield, will assist his brother in the mill. L. L. Passage of North Beach is doing the towing for the company with his tow boat, the 'Sourdo'.
Mr. Erhart plans to employ all local labor in the new mill.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
G. G. Erhart, who has had much experience in sawmill work in several big Portland mills and the C. A. Smith Lumber Co. at Marshfield, will assist his brother in the mill. L. L. Passage of North Beach is doing the towing for the company with his tow boat, the 'Sourdo'.
Mr. Erhart plans to employ all local labor in the new mill.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
December 26, 1930: “W. P. Erhart will start putting in the conveyor in the Siltcoos mill this week. The mill already has a number of good sized orders for lumber. One of them is for a string of cottages, with garages attached, to be built at the depot here.” (The Siuslaw Oar)
March 20, 1931: “W. P. Erhart spent last Saturday at Flagg where he purchased metal roofing for the new mill here.” (The Siuslaw Oar)