KIRBY BROTHERS
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Lane County - Swisshome
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March 28, 1913: “Cecil and Roy Kirby have a contract to log for the Tidewater Mill Co. and are getting ready to begin work.
The timber will be cut on Lake Creek about two miles from Deadwood on what is known as the Potterf and Atherton places now owned by L. E. Bean and Joe Fellman of Eugene.
They intend to build their camp next week and will start men at falling timber at once. They will move their engine out from Indian Creek and are figuring on buying another.
The boys have a good show and are planning to put in about ten million feet of logs by the first of next year.” (The West)
The timber will be cut on Lake Creek about two miles from Deadwood on what is known as the Potterf and Atherton places now owned by L. E. Bean and Joe Fellman of Eugene.
They intend to build their camp next week and will start men at falling timber at once. They will move their engine out from Indian Creek and are figuring on buying another.
The boys have a good show and are planning to put in about ten million feet of logs by the first of next year.” (The West)
April 11, 1913: “Kirby Brothers are getting ready for active logging operations on the Ed Potterf place. They have bought the C. M. Andrews donkey and expect to log with two donkeys.” (The West)
April 25, 1913: “Kirby Bros. Have a cook house, bunk house, warehouse, residences, and several other buildings at their camp. They have installed a telephone. And cook and moved in.” (The West)
May 2, 1913: “Kirby Bros. Are moving their donkey from the Downing place to their logging job.” (The West)
May 9, 1913: “A steam pipe broke the second day Kirby Bros. New donkey was being moved, and the moving operations are halted for repairs.” (The West)
May 16, 1913: “Kirby Bros. Have their donkey as far as Greenleaf post office. They are having no more trouble than they could have been expected in their moving. Tuesday they wore the sled runners off four inches on the creek bottom. Big Bill Mead arranges the schedule and Pat Kirby meets it.” (The West)
May 23, 1913: “Kirby Bros. Have their donkey in position and will soon be pulling logs.” (The West)
August 1, 1913: “Roy Kirby was in town yesterday. They have shut down their logging camp for a few days to make some repairs to the engine.” (The West)
August 8, 1913: “Kirby's camp put in over 100,000 feet of logs one day recently.” (The West)
August 8, 1913: “Kirby's donkey broke a 1 ¼ valve rod recently and a lay off was taken while a new rod was not much more than put in place till its mate broke. These rods have a four inch left hand thread that had broken off, making a difficult break to repair. The boys were anxious to avoid another wait as before, and Marion Wheeler was got from E. L. Berkshire's, where he was working, to come and see if he could weld it. The donkey was pulling logs again before noon.” (The West)
September 19, 1913: “Kirby Bros. Claim the record for a day's run on the Siuslaw water shed. They put in 156,382 feet in nine hours. They have also put in over 100,000 in half a day. The boys have a crew they are proud of.” (The West)
September 19, 1913: “Kirby Bros. Donkey broke a 7-8 valve stem last Saturday, but the company blacksmith glued it together again as merrily as ever, again Yesterday.” (The West)
October 3, 1913: “Elizabeth and W. A. LeBlue have sued Cecil and Roy Kirby to recover $450 for timber alleged to have been destroyed by a brush fire.” (The West)
November 14, 1913: “Kirby Bros. Expected to do a lot of work with the millions of feet of logs they have in the creek, the first raise, but this raise caught them with a crippled donkey. They are waiting for a brass casting to be shipped from Portland.” (The West)
November 21, 1913: “Roy Kirby of Kirby Bros. Was in town Wednesday, looking after business matters.
He stated that they intend to close down their logging camp on Lake Creek in about a week will probably not start up again till spring.
Kirby Bros. Have put in about six million feet of timber since last spring. They started putting in logs the last of May and have averaged about a million feet per month since that time.” (The West)
He stated that they intend to close down their logging camp on Lake Creek in about a week will probably not start up again till spring.
Kirby Bros. Have put in about six million feet of timber since last spring. They started putting in logs the last of May and have averaged about a million feet per month since that time.” (The West)
January 16, 1914: “Kirby's logs all went out during the high water of the night of the 4th, except those that were along the bank of the creek, but some of them formed jams farther down, and all the low places in the road between James Johnston's and Little Cape Horn were piled full of logs, and where the logs could not do much damage otherwise they punched the road off into the creek.” (The West)
January 30, 1914: “Kirby Bros. Are already hiring men and making arrangements for their present year's logging, but expect to take the engines to Portland and have them overhauled before they start up again.” (The West)
June 14, 1918: “While running a donkey engine at Kirby Bros. Logging camp near Noti last Wednesday, Ernest Hibbard was so stunned by lightning that he was unconscious for several hours.” (The West)
August 29, 1919: “Cecil and Roy Kirby, of Mapleton, who have been engaged in logging for several years, have taken contract to furnish three million feet of logs for the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company for their mill at Springfield.
In conversation with Roy Kirby recently he said the timber will be cut on their land near the mouth of Indian Creek and floated down Lake Creek and the Siuslaw River to the booms near Acme then loaded on cars at Siboco station and shipped to Springfield.
Kirby Bros. Will employ about twenty men at their camp and they expect to be busy all fall and winter.” (The West)
In conversation with Roy Kirby recently he said the timber will be cut on their land near the mouth of Indian Creek and floated down Lake Creek and the Siuslaw River to the booms near Acme then loaded on cars at Siboco station and shipped to Springfield.
Kirby Bros. Will employ about twenty men at their camp and they expect to be busy all fall and winter.” (The West)
April 2, 1920: "Ten million feet of logs will be cut by Kirby Bros., logging contractors of Swisshome, in the vicinity of a new camp just established on Lake Creek, six miles above its mouth, according to L. C. Kirby, member of the firm, who is in Eugene buying supplies for the camp. This firm has bought a tract of timber in that locality, and in addition to logging this they will log a tract owned by them for some time past.
The logs will be floated down Lake Creek, thence down the Siuslaw to the booms of the Siuslaw Boom company, where they will be sold in the open market, said Mr. Kirby. Operations are expected to begin in a few days.---Register." (The West)
The logs will be floated down Lake Creek, thence down the Siuslaw to the booms of the Siuslaw Boom company, where they will be sold in the open market, said Mr. Kirby. Operations are expected to begin in a few days.---Register." (The West)
April 9, 1920: "Roy Kirby was in town Tuesday from Deadwood.
He reported they began cutting timber at their logging camp last Monday but it will be two or three weeks yet before they start hauling in logs.
They are finding it hard to get lumber to build houses for their men." (The West)
He reported they began cutting timber at their logging camp last Monday but it will be two or three weeks yet before they start hauling in logs.
They are finding it hard to get lumber to build houses for their men." (The West)
1922: From the Directory of the logging industry (Pacific Coast): "Kirby Bros; camp address, Swisshome; 1 side; daily output, 40 M: 1 donkey engine; 1 high lead; commissary; 20 men; manager and purchasing agent, L. C. Kirby; superintendent, C. J. Kirby." (Directory of the logging industry, 1922)