GUY ROBERTS SAWMILL
Toledo
May 31, 1918: "Two carloads of machinery for the Roberts sawmill arrived on Wednesday evenings freight and the work of erecting the mill will be begun at once and rushed to completion. Mr. Roberts estimates that the mill will be ready to start sawing in about thirty days. He says he is unable to get lumber here for construction purposes, and will have to ship in a carload or two.
When Mr. Roberts gets his mill in operation it will make three mills for Toledo, which all helps to swell the dinner bucket brigade." (Lincoln County Leader)
When Mr. Roberts gets his mill in operation it will make three mills for Toledo, which all helps to swell the dinner bucket brigade." (Lincoln County Leader)
June 6, 1918: "The machinery of the Guy Roberts sawmill at Monroe has been shipped to Toledo and will be installed in a new mill to be erected by Mr. Roberts on a tract of tideland. The mill will have a cutting capacity of 50,000 feet daily." (Cloverdale Courier)
July 26, 1918: "The Guy Roberts sawmill started sawing yesterday for the first time, and Monday of next week, expect to start up full blast. Mr. Roberts has a good mill, modernly equipped. The mill has a capacity of 25,000 ft. per day. Mr. Roberts is operating logging camps on Mill Creek, and also near Elk City." (Lincoln County Leader)
August 2, 1918: "The Guy Roberts sawmill started sawing last Monday, in earnest, and will operate full time from now on. Everything seems to be working fine and they are turning out lots of lumber. They received a new gang edger on Tuesday's freight, which is now being installed." (Lincoln County Leader)
August 29, 1918: "Toledo----Roberts mill completes new slab conveyor and puts in new planer." (Southern Coos County American)
May 21, 1920: "Percy King came ear losing his life while working at the Roberts sawmill in this city Tuesday, by getting caught on a cable and being wound on the drum of the log-haul.
Mr. King was hauling logs up the slip from the pond. He had started four logs up and was guiding the cable so it would wind smooth on the drum when in some manner he got his hand fast and it was drawn around the drum. He cried for help but was carried around the drum four or five revolutions before O. L. Agee, the sawyer, could get to him and release the friction that operates the drum. As he was carried around the drum the cable, pulling the four logs up the slip, wound around and around his left arm mashing it to a pulp. The fingers of his right hand were also caught and crushed.
It was a slow, heart-rending job getting him released from the drum after it has stopped. He was taken to the office of Dr. Burgess as soon as possible, and his wounds dressed. Guy Roberts at once arranged for a special train, and the injured man was taken to the Corvallis Hospital that evening. He was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. A. L. Oglesbee, Earl Roberts and Dave Hackett.
At first it was thought he would lose his right arm, but the latest reports from the hospital indicate that he is getting along nicely, and that there are hopes of saving the injured member.
Mr. King is a young man and has a wife and child. The family came here from near Alpine, a year or so ago." (Lincoln County Leader)
Mr. King was hauling logs up the slip from the pond. He had started four logs up and was guiding the cable so it would wind smooth on the drum when in some manner he got his hand fast and it was drawn around the drum. He cried for help but was carried around the drum four or five revolutions before O. L. Agee, the sawyer, could get to him and release the friction that operates the drum. As he was carried around the drum the cable, pulling the four logs up the slip, wound around and around his left arm mashing it to a pulp. The fingers of his right hand were also caught and crushed.
It was a slow, heart-rending job getting him released from the drum after it has stopped. He was taken to the office of Dr. Burgess as soon as possible, and his wounds dressed. Guy Roberts at once arranged for a special train, and the injured man was taken to the Corvallis Hospital that evening. He was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. A. L. Oglesbee, Earl Roberts and Dave Hackett.
At first it was thought he would lose his right arm, but the latest reports from the hospital indicate that he is getting along nicely, and that there are hopes of saving the injured member.
Mr. King is a young man and has a wife and child. The family came here from near Alpine, a year or so ago." (Lincoln County Leader)