MOON-WILLIAMS LUMBER COMPANY
Josephine County - Grants Pass
October 25, 1914: "Grants Pass reports indicate the early establishment in that city of another sawmill. The Moon-Williams Lumber company has reported its willingness to move its plant into Grants Pass from the Williams creek location. The mill when moved will have a capacity of 30,000 feet a day." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
April 22, 1915: "A crew of men is now at work putting the Moon Williams Lumber company sawmill in shape for operation, and the saws will be started on May 10. The firm already purchased a quantity of timber and is in the market for all the logs that may be hauled to it. The new mill is located on the line of the new municipal railway, on the north bank of the Rogue within the city limits.
The site having been leased from the city.
The capacity of the mill is 35,000 per day and enough of a crew will be put in the woods to keep it running on full time. Mr. Moon stated that 40 men would be employed right from the start in the mill, the yards and the camp. Hauling will be done by team and by the use of the gasoline truck, and shipment of logs over the municipal railway and the Southern Pacific.---Rogue River Courier." (Central Point Herald)
The site having been leased from the city.
The capacity of the mill is 35,000 per day and enough of a crew will be put in the woods to keep it running on full time. Mr. Moon stated that 40 men would be employed right from the start in the mill, the yards and the camp. Hauling will be done by team and by the use of the gasoline truck, and shipment of logs over the municipal railway and the Southern Pacific.---Rogue River Courier." (Central Point Herald)
April 26, 1915: "The Moon-Williams Lumber Company at Grants Pass will start operations May 10 with a crew of forty men." (Ashland Tidings)
April 26, 1915: "The sawmill of the Moon-Williams Lumber company will start cutting lumber on May 10. This is the second mill to be built in Grants Pass since the construction of the municipal railway to the Applegate valley, both mills being built on this road. The first mill, that of A. L. Edgerton, was started two weeks ago. Each has a capacity of about 40,000 feet per day." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
May 1015: "Moon-Williams Lumber Co., Grants Pass, resumed operations May 10. The mill has a capacity of 35,000 feet per day." (The Timberman, vol. 16)
June 3, 1915: "The first logs ever hauled over the Grants Pass municipal railway were delivered Monday at the sawmill of the Moon-Williams Lumber company. Two carloads were transported from a point near Wilderville. From now on log hauling will be regular. The first excursion train to travel over the new line was scheduled for today. The Presbyterian Sunday school was to picnic at Wilderville." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
August 15, 1915: "The road, which now runs to Wilderville, 11 miles west, already brings in the big timber to the two sawmills in town. One of these, the Moon-Williams Lumber company, placed its machinery April first. It turns out 30,000 feet of lumber per day, has 50 men on its payroll in the mill and in camps, uses 24 horses, and has a five ton gasoline truck to haul lumber to the Pine Box company's factory, which handles most of its output." (The Oregon Daily Journal)