McDONALD & VAUGHN CAMP
Coos County - Tar Heel Point, 8 miles west of North Bend
July 27, 1917: "McDonald & Vaughn have commenced driving piling for a new railroad to a tract of timber back of Coos City, where they expect to take out 7,000,000 feet of logs. The camp will employ about 30 men." (The Coquille Valley Sentinel)
February 15, 1918: “McDonald & Vaughn, of Marshfield, who have a three-year contract for cutting spruce and white cedar on the Coos Bay peninsula, in the interests of the government aeroplane programme, have a crew of surveyors in the field laying out the logging road which is to tap the area, and will construct the camps as fast as possible.” (Silver Lake Leader)
May 3, 1918: “The new spruce logging camp of the McDonald & Vaughan company, at Tarheel Point, will be delivering logs to the mills within the next two weeks. The loggers already have a large quantity of fallen spruce ready for the transportation end of the camp.” (Silver Lake Leader)
June 28, 1918: “Ray Noel, a logger employed at the McDonald & Vaughn camp at Tar Heel, eight miles west of North Bend, was instantly killed early Friday afternoon. A log that was being dragged by a donkey engine came in contact with another log, and unexpectedly bounding, struck Mr. Noel.” (Silver Lake Leader)