OREGON LUMBER COMPANY
Baker City
March 28, 1896: "The sawmill of the Oregon Lumber Company at Baker City has resumed operations. A large supply of logs is on hand, and there will be nothing to prevent a continuous operation of the mill for many months." (Cottage Grove Echo=Leader)
August 6, 1896: "The Oregon Lumber Company of Baker City, shut down its mill and sent all of the employes to Sumpter valley to complete laying the track for railroad to that point, as no other labor could be secured." (Daily Capital Journal)
January 17, 1900: "The Oregon Lumber Company, located at Baker City, has a mill with a capacity of 70,000 feet per day, employs 250 men and receives and consumes 40 carloads of logs per day. They carry a stock of about 8,000,000 feet of lumber, and, besides supplying the local demand, they are constantly shipping to the markets of Utah and Idaho." (Morning Oregonian)
September 15, 1916: “Baker---Fire destroyed the sawmill of the Oregon Lumber company at South Baker Monday afternoon, causing a loss of $40,000, with no insurance.
The blaze is believed to have started by Powder-like sawdust in the engine room, igniting from the fire under the boilers. In an instant the entire mill was ablaze and burned rapidly. For a while the entire $100,000 plant and many other buildings were threatened, but the Baker fire department and 150 men worked heroically and kept the flames from spreading. Several cars of lumber were pulled to safety just in time.” (Silver Lake Leader)
The blaze is believed to have started by Powder-like sawdust in the engine room, igniting from the fire under the boilers. In an instant the entire mill was ablaze and burned rapidly. For a while the entire $100,000 plant and many other buildings were threatened, but the Baker fire department and 150 men worked heroically and kept the flames from spreading. Several cars of lumber were pulled to safety just in time.” (Silver Lake Leader)
May 31, 1917: "A probable plot to dynamite the mill of the Oregon Lumber company at Baker failed by the discovery of a quantity of dynamite, caps and fuse hidden by a fence 25 feet from the mill." (Cloverdale Courier)
April 1927: "The planing mill at Baker was closed for a few days the later part of March." (The Timberman)