J. D. HAMAKER & SONS
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Klamath County - Bonanza
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Continued from: Watson Sawmill
October 31, 1901: “J.D. Hamaker has purchased the Watson sawmill. He will take immediate charge.” (Klamath Republican)
January 22, 1903: “Willie Stevens who has just recovered from a severe attack of pneumonia has been removed from the Hamaker saw-mill to his home in Langells valley.” (Klamath Republican)
April 9, 1903: “J.D. Hamaker, who has been running a saw mill at Ball Butte, near Bonanza, for the past two years has taken his sons Sykes and Earnest in as full partners. He informs us that they have a large number of good logs on the runway and are prepared to supply the demand for lumber in that locality this season.” (The Klamath Falls Express)
May 7, 1903: AD - “When you want a load of good dry lumber, any or all kinds, come to the Ball Butte saw mill. J.D. Hamaker and sons.” (The Klamath Falls Express)
June 11, 1903: “J.D. Hamaker has sold his old planer to Slack & Weaver of Langell valley. He has put in a new machine in his sawmill and is prepared to furnish better lumber than ever.” (Klamath Republican)
August 13, 1903: “J.D. Hamaker and son, Sikes, came in from their Ball Butte saw mill Tuesday, each with a load of finish lumber. They report that they are being kept busy filling orders as dry lumber is scarce this summer.” (Klamath Republican)
September 10, 1903: “J.D. Hamaker was in town Monday from his Ball Butte sawmill, 12 miles north of Bonanza. He brought down several thousand feet of moulding which he left in charge of Geo. T. Baldwin for sale.” (Klamath Falls Express)
September 22, 1904: “J.D. Hamaker, the saw mill man of Bonanza, came in from his mill Friday with two loads of dry lumber. He has established a lumber yard on J.W. Hamaker's property in the East End and will keep a full yard of dry lumber. Paul Brietenstein has been appointed his agent to attend to the yard.” (Klamath Republican)
December 7, 1905: Bonanza “J.D. Hamaker happens to be in a lucky streak by having a good saw mill in the neighborhood of town and is furnishing all the material for the erection of the new buildings and the lumber is 'A 1'.” (Klamath Republican)
April 26, 1906: “Sykes Hamaker, son of J. D. Hamaker of Bonanza, had the misfortune of having the first third finger of his left hand cut off last Saturday while working at his father's sawmill at Bald Butte.” (Klamath Republican)
July 26, 1906: “Frank Cutter of Bonanza was in town this week. He is employed at the Hamaker sawmill, and states that upwards of 300,000 feet of lumber is piled in the yard, one half of which is clear. From five to ten teams are daily hauling building material from the mill to Bonanza, Lorella and Bly.” (Klamath Republican)
August 23, 1906: “Frank Cutter, the engineer at the Bald Mountain sawmill, was a Dairy visitor last Saturday.” (Klamath Republican)
December 13, 1906: “J. D. Hamaker, the Bald Butte saw mill man, arrived in the city Monday from Bonanza. He left yesterday morning for his home with a load of supplies for the winter.” (Klamath Republican)
August 27, 1907: "FOR SALE---400 ACRES OF TIMBER, 6,000,000 feet saw timber and cedar for millions of shingles. Sawmill 15,000 capacity, planer, blacksmith tools, chains, etc., all for $7000: 11 miles of Bonanza, Or., the metropolis of the upper irrigation project. More adjoining timber land if wanted. Address Bald Butte sawmill, Bonanza, Klamath Co., Or." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
April 25, 1908: “Dick Hamaker passed through Merrill Monday on his way to Montaque. When he returns he will bring with him his brother-in-law Owen McClellan and family. Mr. McClellan and Sykes Hamaker will run the Hamaker sawmill near Bonanza.--Merrill Record.” (The Evening Herald)
May 6, 1908: “V. O. Erwin was delivering lumber to I. F. Davis and S. D. Tooker from Hamaker's mill on Thursday.” (The Evening Herald)
October 28, 1908: “Oscar Campbell was hauling bridge lumber last week from the Hamaker mill.” (The Evening Herald)
August 26, 1909: “J.W. Hamaker, who runs a sawmill near Bald mountain, it seems, has been cutting some government timber, and will be given an opportunity to pay for the same. Everybody has been warned not to cut timber on government land.” (Klamath Falls Express)