ROGUE RIVER MINING AND LUMBER CO.
Foots Creek
December 13, 1900: "The Rogue River Mining and Lumber Company contemplates erecting a planing mill and establishing a lumber yard at Bolt or Woodville." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
August 15, 1901: "A new enterprise known as the Rogue River Mining & Lumber Company, composed of men lately from Ohio, and who have $100,000 invested, has been inaugurated and will do business on an extensive scale in the Foots Creek mining and lumbering district, east of Grants Pass. This company has bought up and acquired several thousand acres of fir and pine timber along Foots Creek. A mill will be erected up the Foots Creek Canyon some four and one-half miles from the Southern Pacific. A branch road will be built from the mill connecting with the main line near Woodville, seven miles from Grants Pass." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
September 5, 1901: "Engineer Jesse McCall, who has been making the location for the branch railroad that will be built by the Rogue River Mining & Lumber Company from a point on the Southern Pacific Company's track between Tolo and Woodville, five miles distant, to the extensive body of heavily timbered land that the company own, has finished his work. The enterprise includes the erection of a large sawmill at the terminus of the road. W. R. Stansill, the manager of the lumber company, goes east in a short time to purchase the material for the construction of the railroad and arrange for the machinery necessary for the saw mill." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
November 21, 1901: "W. R. Stansill, of the Rogue River Mining and Lumber Co., has lately returned from the east, where he has succeeded in interesting capital in a big lumber enterprise in Jackson county. It is proposed to build a branch railroad, starting near the White place at Rock Point and running thence five miles to the head of Foots creek where there is a magnificent body of timber. The company intend to install a mill with a capacity of 40,000 to 60,000 feet of lumber per day." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)