THREE PINES TIMBER COMPANY
Josephine County - Three Pines
March 30, 1906: "Howland & Cook are making preparations to start their saw mill on Jump-off-Joe. They have a lumber yard at Three Pines spur from where their lumber is shipped." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
April 2, 1909: "Fred Mensch, county surveyor, left Monday evening for Three Pines to survey a townsite for the Three Pines Timber Co." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
April 9, 1909: "County Surveyor Fred Mensch returned Friday from Three Pines where he has just completed surveying a townsite for the Three Pines Timber Co. Three Pines is located about four miles north of Merlin and is the terminal on the railroad of the lumber flume which is being built by the Three Pines Timber Co. from their large timber holdings near the head of Jump-off-Joe. The flume when completed will be about 11 miles long. Less than a mile now remains to be built. The flume delivers the lumber continually for its own extension and completed will furnish comparatively free delivery of the lumber to the railroad. A lumber yard and planing mill will be put in on completion of the flume and the railroad spur at Three Pines will be extended to connect therewith. The townsite comprises about 20 acres, platted in 25 and 50 foot lots and the location is very attractive." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
November 11, 1910: "Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cook went to Three Pines Thursday morning to spend a few days. Mr. Cook informs us that the Three Pines Lumber company will have their new planing mill running in a few days, and reports business in splendid condition." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
December 9, 1910: "The Grants Pass Iron and Steel works, through its attorney, Marcus W. Robbins, has filed a complaint against the Three Pines Lumber company for the recovery of $159.95, alleged to be due for sale of goods." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
March 31, 1911: "The Three Pines Lumber company now has on its pay rolls at this point 18 men."
"The Three Pines Lumber company contemplates putting on a night shift in the near future as they are receiving more orders than can be filling by the regular day shift. They also contemplate building a new sawmill this summer, which will more than double their capacity." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
"The Three Pines Lumber company contemplates putting on a night shift in the near future as they are receiving more orders than can be filling by the regular day shift. They also contemplate building a new sawmill this summer, which will more than double their capacity." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
April 7, 1911: "About 600 feet of flume of the Three Pines Timber company collapsed Saturday. It is a total wreck, but will soon be in commission again under the direction of W. L. Regis, who was the original builder. The flume was built about two years ago, and the reason of its downfall is somewhat of a mystery, as it was considered good for some years to come." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
April 14, 1911: "The bad weather conditions have been a source of delay in repairing the flume of the Three Pines Timber company." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
April 21, 1911: "The work of rebuilding the Three Pines Lumber company flume is progressing favorably and another week will see it near completion." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
August 11, 1911: "Arthur Edgerton of Grants Pass, a long time and successful manufacturer of lumber and its products, has associated himself with the Three Pines Lumber company and will have charge of the manufacturing part of the business, which consists of the saw mill at Mountain and the new planing mill at this point." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
December 1, 1911: "Mr. Guy Colby of Merlin is here running the planer for the Three Pines Lumber company." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
December 15, 1911: "The Three Pines Lumber company having closed down for the winter is enclosing the planing mill, where is stored a considerable quantity of choice fir finishing lumber. H. L. Darnielle, who has been in charge of the sales department, will leave here for his home in Grants Pass Friday and remain a few days with his family before going to Pleasant Valley, Baker county, to act in the same capacity for the Pleasant Valley Lumber company. Donald H. Clark will represent the company here.
L. T. Corliss has rented space in the planing mill and will get power from the engine of the lumber company." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
L. T. Corliss has rented space in the planing mill and will get power from the engine of the lumber company." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
August 2, 1912: "This is the opportunity you have been looking for. All the lumber of the Three Pines Lumber Co., consisting of assorted yard stock of fir and cedar lumber, together with several carloads of 4 foot fir wood on dock ready for delivery, now on sale in quantities to suit. Jefferson D. Cook, Receiver, Three Pines, Oregon." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
February 7, 1913: "The Three Pines sawmill will commence the manufacture of lumber again within the next ten days after having been idle for many months. The plant, one of the best known in the southern Oregon country, has been taken over by A. B. Frame, of Portland, and will be operated by Buckley Bros., late of Silverton. The Messrs. Buckley were in Grants Pass Thursday arranging for help and supplies. The mill will employ from forty to fifty men, and will run on full time from the start.
A contract for railroad material that will cover a period of three years has been entered into by the new people, and they will supply large orders for ties, bridge timbers, etc. Logs to keep the mill in operation will be cut at the head of the long flume by which it is carried to the mill, and will be largely fir with some sugar pine." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
A contract for railroad material that will cover a period of three years has been entered into by the new people, and they will supply large orders for ties, bridge timbers, etc. Logs to keep the mill in operation will be cut at the head of the long flume by which it is carried to the mill, and will be largely fir with some sugar pine." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
February 28, 1913: "George Reiber, engineer in charge of the donkey engine at the Three Pines logging camp, was in town Saturday to receive surgical treatment for a crushed finger of the right hand. The injury was received through the breaking of a block and the snapping back of a steel cable, which struck him on the hand.
Mr. Reiber states that twenty men are now employed by the Three Pines Lumber company in the logging camp and in getting the mill ready for operation and that sawing will commence next week when a larger crew will be put on." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
Mr. Reiber states that twenty men are now employed by the Three Pines Lumber company in the logging camp and in getting the mill ready for operation and that sawing will commence next week when a larger crew will be put on." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
March 7, 1913: "H. L. Darneille arrived Wednesday night from Klamath Falls and left Thursday morning for Three Pines, where he will be foreman of the yard at the Three Pines sawmill." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
May 2, 1913: "George Reiber, an employe of the Three Pines sawmill company was drowned in the mill pond Friday, the body being recovered within a short time after the accident, and though every effort was made to resuscitate the man, he was past human help.
The mill of the Three Pines Lumber company is located on Jump=off-Joe creek, several miles above the town of Three Pines. The mill pond has been formed by building of a dam, the water in the pond being about 16 feet in depth. Friday Reiber went out on the logs in the pond to sound the depth of the water with a pike pole, and it is supposed that the log turned with him, as H. Williams, another employe, hearing Reiber call, saw him floundering in the water 25 or 30 yards from the shore. Williams and others rushed to Reiber's assistance at once, but he had gone down for the last time, and when the body was recovered a few minutes later life was extinct." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)
The mill of the Three Pines Lumber company is located on Jump=off-Joe creek, several miles above the town of Three Pines. The mill pond has been formed by building of a dam, the water in the pond being about 16 feet in depth. Friday Reiber went out on the logs in the pond to sound the depth of the water with a pike pole, and it is supposed that the log turned with him, as H. Williams, another employe, hearing Reiber call, saw him floundering in the water 25 or 30 yards from the shore. Williams and others rushed to Reiber's assistance at once, but he had gone down for the last time, and when the body was recovered a few minutes later life was extinct." (Weekly Rogue River Courier)