MOORE BROTHERS SAWMILL
Klamath County - Link River/West Side
November 21, 1877: "Messrs. Nourse, Moore and Pearson are pushing to early completion their saw mill at Linkville. They are building a ditch about one-fourth of a mile in length, 12 feet wide, and intended to carry five feet depth of water. This ditch is intended as a canal to float logs to the mill as well as to conduct their motive power. A boom between 400 and 500 feet in length is to cross the river a few hundred yards below the foot of the lake. This is the most extensive saw milling enterprise ever commenced in southern Oregon, inland. The timber calculated to furnish this mill with provender is found in inexhaustible quantities on the banks of big Klamath lake, and is to be rafted across that body of water to the mill." (The Daily Astorian)
April 27, 1908: "The tules on the west side of the lake just below the Moore Bros. mill are on fire this evening. At first the fire caused some alarm as it was feared that the large mill was in flames. There is no harm done in burning the tules except that at this time of the year ducks and geese are nesting and it destroys the eggs and the young birds." (The Evening Herald)
May 13, 1908: "The sawmills of the city will commence the season's run in about ten days. There will be a strong demand for lumber during the entire summer as a number of large residences will be built. Moore Bros. have some logs on hand and also a raft in the water at Keno. They also have a force of men in the woods falling trees." (The Evening Herald)
May 29, 1908: "Harry Wall has begun to put saw logs into the river for the Moore Bros. of Klamath Falls." (The Evening Herald)
September 29, 1908: "There is plenty of rough lumber in the yards to last some time. Moore Bros. have about a million and a half feet of dry common. They have only about 50,000 feet of clear." (The Evening Herald)