KINZUA PINE MILLS COMPANY
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Wheeler County - Kinzua
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July 6, 1927: "New town of Kinzua will soon have logging railroad and Kinzua pine mills." (The News-Review)
November 17, 1927: "Ballasting of Condon, Kinzua & Southern railroad will start at once, and rails are laid almost to Kinzua millsite." (Medford Mail Tribune)
February 15, 1928: "Kinzua Lumber Co. 30-mile railroad up Fossil Creek being ballasted." (The News-Review)
April 9, 1928: "Kinzua Pine Mills will be opened by August, to employ 200 men." (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
May 23, 1928: "Kinzua Pine Mills Co. will cut 30,000,000 feet pine a year at Kinzua mill." (The World)
August 15, 1928: "In an application to the interstate commerce commission for permission to construct a rail line from Condon, Ore., to the new lumber mill at Kinzua, the Condon, Kinzua and Southern railroad says it plans to operate a freight and express service and possibly passenger service also. The railroad is to be financed by the Kinzua Pine Mills company, it is explained, which is incorporated for the issue of 500,000 shares of common stock.
The length of the line is 24 miles." (The Capital Journal)
The length of the line is 24 miles." (The Capital Journal)
August 10, 1930: "Kinzua pine mills resume operations." (Medford Mail Tribune)
January 18, 1935: "Much new activity is in evidence at Kinzua this week due to the fact that the lumber company here started up the new band mill unit of the saw mill which increases the daily production of lumber, approximately 50,000 feet a day. This increases the logging activities and provides more lumber for manufacturing and shipment and increased the number of men employed materially." (Fossil Journal)
January 28, 1938: "Increased labor costs and price declines have forced closure of the Kinzua Lumber company near Fossil for the first time since it began operations 10 years ago, managers said." (The Eugene Guard)
January 30, 1938: "The Kinzua Pine Mills company, which closed Jan. 15, operated today with 125 men employed and will call back an additional 75 Monday. Officials said. About 375 are normally employed." (Statesman Journal)
December 15, 1945: "Charges of using 'big stick' methods to force striking employed back to work were hurled at the Kinzua pine mills and logging operations today by AFL lumber and sawmill union officials.
Strike chairman John M. Christenson said lights had been cut off, water shut down periodically, the company store closed and other hardships imposed to force the men back to work.
John T. Casey, attorney for the company, immediately branded the charges as 'wholly untrue.'
After a recital of his charges, Christenson said:
'The workers at the Kinzua mills have turned down a company offer of 12 1/2 cents and have made a counter 15 cents an hour proposal, remaining firm in their demands." (La Grande Observer)
Strike chairman John M. Christenson said lights had been cut off, water shut down periodically, the company store closed and other hardships imposed to force the men back to work.
John T. Casey, attorney for the company, immediately branded the charges as 'wholly untrue.'
After a recital of his charges, Christenson said:
'The workers at the Kinzua mills have turned down a company offer of 12 1/2 cents and have made a counter 15 cents an hour proposal, remaining firm in their demands." (La Grande Observer)
December 20, 1945: "Governor Earl Snell today reported an investigation underway of complaints by the northwest AFL lumber strike policy committee involving conditions at a company owned town of the Kinzua pine mills at Kinzua, Ore.
The union committee charged poor sanitation conditions and fire hazards existed at the town and at the school because water and power services were curtailed. The company called the charges 'preposterous.' Lights, it said, were off because of a lack of power---but company officials' lights were out, too.
'I felt it my duty to make an immediate check of these reported conditions.' Governor Snell said. 'The investigation has been started and the report is not completed." (Herald and News)
The union committee charged poor sanitation conditions and fire hazards existed at the town and at the school because water and power services were curtailed. The company called the charges 'preposterous.' Lights, it said, were off because of a lack of power---but company officials' lights were out, too.
'I felt it my duty to make an immediate check of these reported conditions.' Governor Snell said. 'The investigation has been started and the report is not completed." (Herald and News)
December 29, 1945: "Reports dealing with the investigation of charges that the Kinzua mills near Condon is endangering the health of its workers by shutting off their light, power and water, probably will be filed in the executive department here next week, Gov. Earl Snell announced Friday. The charges are being probed at the request of the governor. Investigators include the state board of health, public utility commission and the state fire marshal's office." (Statesman Journal)
February 19, 1946: "AFL sawmill workers of two union locals have accepted 15-cent an hour pay increases from the Kinzua Pine Mill company here, J. F. Coleman, Kinzua vice president said today. The mill has been closed since Sept. 24." (Statesman Journal)
May 13, 1946: "Loggers of the Kinzua Lumber Company are going to learn to fly at a company sponsored flying club in order to save time traveling between home and this isolated lumbering community.
Mike Coleman, president of the company, announced a company airport with two 3,000-foot runways is being built between Condon and Mayville. He said two airplanes will be purchased for use of the employes on business and pleasure trips and for forest fire patrol work in the area." (The News-Review)
Mike Coleman, president of the company, announced a company airport with two 3,000-foot runways is being built between Condon and Mayville. He said two airplanes will be purchased for use of the employes on business and pleasure trips and for forest fire patrol work in the area." (The News-Review)
March 6, 1952: "Lloyd Durkee who is the sawyer at the mill here is reported to be recovering satisfactorily from injuries he sustained at work early in the week." (Fossil Journal)
August 20, 1953: "Sale of all the capital stock of the Kinzua Lumber Co. was announced here today by J. D. Coleman, general manager of the firm.
Purchasers were a group of Northwest lumbermen and lumber concerns including H. J. O'Donnell, M. H. Wyman, E. W. Stuchell, D. E. Wyman, Alvin Schwager, Capital Timber Products Co., and Donover Co., Inc.
Sale price was not disclosed by either the sellers or the purchasers.
The new owners indicated they planned no change in the operating personnel of the Kinzua enterprises.
The Kinzua plant is located in Wheeler county, 12 miles from Fossil, Ore." (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
Purchasers were a group of Northwest lumbermen and lumber concerns including H. J. O'Donnell, M. H. Wyman, E. W. Stuchell, D. E. Wyman, Alvin Schwager, Capital Timber Products Co., and Donover Co., Inc.
Sale price was not disclosed by either the sellers or the purchasers.
The new owners indicated they planned no change in the operating personnel of the Kinzua enterprises.
The Kinzua plant is located in Wheeler county, 12 miles from Fossil, Ore." (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
July 24, 1954: "Francis Edwin Ostrander suffocated Friday after falling into a sawdust hopper at the Kinzua Pine Mill 50 miles south of here (Heppner).
The accident occurred when shifts were changing at the mill and Ostrander was not missed until his body came out the bottom of the hopper on a conveyor belt an hour later." (The News-Review)
The accident occurred when shifts were changing at the mill and Ostrander was not missed until his body came out the bottom of the hopper on a conveyor belt an hour later." (The News-Review)
September 3, 1958: "Daniel L. Sullivan died suddenly Tuesday at the Kinzua mill, Kinzua, where he had been employed about a week. A heart attack was apparently the cause of death." (The Bend Bulletin)