GRIFFITH BROTHERS SAWMILL
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Klamath County - Odessa
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January 8, 1904: "A.C. Griffith and A. Wenn were in Klamath Falls over Tuesday from Odessa, Pelican Bay. On their return home Wednesday they took the large circular saw which is to be used in Griffith Bro's new sawmill. The machinery is now complete and they will immediately commence cutting out lumber for a building and for two large barges with which to transport their product to the Klamath Falls market. Bad road prevents their getting all the new machinery at this time, and for the winter run they will use the boiler and engine of their steamboat, which is hung up for the winter owing to the ice on Klamath lake. The mill will have a capacity of 30,000 feet per day. It is not probable that there will be another shortage of lumber in Klamath Falls for a time, for next summer the product of two good mills will be easily accessible." (The Medford Mail)
April 7, 1904: “D.H. Griffith, the saw mill man, came down from Odessa Tuesday.” (Klamath Republican)
May 5, 1904: “Griffith Bros. Started with a raft of about 75,000 feet of lumber, from Odessa Tuesday. When they arrived opposite Eagle Point they met with a mishap to the machinery of the boat and had to stop there. Four of the crew came to town last evening. The raft will be brought down as soon as repairs can be made to the machinery.” (Klamath Republican)
July 14, 1904: “D.W. Griffith, proprietor of the famous Odessa Hotel and summer resort was in the city Monday. He came down with his steamer Alma and on his return he took his new boiler and engine, which he recently purchased at Montague, for his new saw mill.” (Klamath Republican)
July 22, 1904: "H.J. Mattoon came over from Klamath county last week. Mr. Mattoon has the logging contract for the sawmill Dan Griffiths is putting in at Odessa, on the upper Klamath lake, and his mission here is to gather up the necessary paraphernalia to do the work." (The Medford Mail)
August 18, 1904: “The new sawmill is now running on full time. Mr. Griffith expects to be able to cut about 25,000 feet of lumber per day.” (Klamath Republican)
September 1, 1904: “Dan Griffith, the saw mill man, came down from Odessa Tuesday with a barge load of 25,000 feet of lumber which has been sold to parties in town.” (Klamath Republican)
February 23, 1905: “The boat Winema returned the first of the week from Griffith's mill with a cargo of lumber to be used in building its cabin. The work is now proceeding on the boat at a point near where it was launched.” (Klamath Republican)
March 31, 1905: "James O'Neil and W.C. Stanley have leased the Griffith sawmill at Odessa, also the steam boat and barges, for a term of three years and are now engaged in building a wharf on the lake near Marion Hanks' place. They will also construct a road so that lumber can be hauled from the landing to this city. Mr. O'Neil stated to a Republican representative that the company would put in a dry kiln at this end and expected later in the fall to put up a sash and door factory." (The Medford Mail)
June 21, 1906: “100,000 feet of lumber were landed at the dock on the Upper Lake yesterday for use in the Buena Vista addition. This lumber is from the Odessa mill, the entire cut of which has been purchased by the Klamath Canal Company, in order to insure an ample supply of building material for building purposes for those erecting homes on this beautiful tract this year.” (Klamath Republican)
July 5, 1906: “Ralph Ross is minus a little finger and may also lose the third finger as the result of an accident while running the edger at the Odessa sawmill. He got his hand caught in the machinery and it was so badly cut that Dr. Matson, who performed the operation, found it necessary to amputate the little finger immediately, and it may become necessary to take the third finger of the same hand.” (Klamath Falls Express)
April 8, 1908: "John Hitchcock and W.T. Otey are moving to Odessa to run the sawmill at that place." (The Evening Herald)
July 15, 1908: "A large part of the force employed by the company is at work at the Odessa mill and in the woods near there. The sawmill at that place is being operated on full time turning out the lumber needed for the flume being built in connection with the government canal. It will take at least two months longer to turn out the lumber for this work, and then the company has a contract with the government for 617,000 feet which is to be used by the Reclamation Service in boxing the canal below the flume. Owing to the formation at that place it will be necessary to line the canal for a distance of almost a mile and all of the timber necessary for this will be supplied by the Long Lake company." (The Evening Herald)
September 17, 1908: “It is reported that the Odessa mill has shut down, having completed the contract for the lumber for the government flume.” (Klamath Republican)
1910: Dismantled and moved to Rattlesnake Point and re-erected by D. B. Campbell.