TOPSY LUMBER COMPANY (KESTERSON)
Topsy
August 17, 1917: "WANTED---Teams to haul lumber from the Topsy mill to Dorris; the pay is $3 per thousand feet; lumber sixty days dry; good roads; 11 1/2 miles. Enquire of H. L. Gilkey of Evans Creek Lumber Co., Dorris, Calif." (The Evening Herald)
February 4, 1924: "Mr. and Mrs. Irving E. Kesterson spent Saturday and Sunday in Klamath Falls visiting friends. They are from Topsy where Kesterson is the owner of the Topsy mill, one of the best of the smaller mills in Klamath county. Accompanying the Kestersons was Roy Chase one of the foremen at the mill." (The Evening Herald)
January 2, 1925: "Roy Chase, who has been quite sick at the Dorris hospital with the mumps returned home Sunday to Topsy mill." (The Evening Herald)
April 7, 1925: "The sawmill of the Topsy Lumber company started up for the season's run this morning. The Topsy mill is the best circular mill in southern Oregon or Northern California, being equipped with a sixty inch bottom saw, a fifty four inch top saw, and the carriage is equipped with Trout set works.
Later in the season the Topsy company plans to start the construction of a modern eight foot band mill, located at Grenada Flat, about two miles from the present mill site." (The Evening Herald)
Later in the season the Topsy company plans to start the construction of a modern eight foot band mill, located at Grenada Flat, about two miles from the present mill site." (The Evening Herald)
August 7, 1925: "Dr. G. S. Newsom of the Klamath county public health unit made an inspection Wednesday of the Topsy mill Co.'s plant, looking into the water supply and general sanitary conditions.
One case only of typhoid was reported from the Topsy mill, one of the employes having been treated for typhoid in the hospital at Dorris, California.
'Inasmuch as the mill plant has a community water supply, it hardly seems possible that the water supply could be contaminated with typhoid germs, and only one case developed out of about 200 people using the same water,' Dr. Newsom said today. 'Samples of the water have been sent to the Oregon State Board of Health Laboratory for analysis." (The Evening Herald)
One case only of typhoid was reported from the Topsy mill, one of the employes having been treated for typhoid in the hospital at Dorris, California.
'Inasmuch as the mill plant has a community water supply, it hardly seems possible that the water supply could be contaminated with typhoid germs, and only one case developed out of about 200 people using the same water,' Dr. Newsom said today. 'Samples of the water have been sent to the Oregon State Board of Health Laboratory for analysis." (The Evening Herald)
October 7, 1925: "The mill of the Topsy Lumber company, owned by the Kestersons, will be moved to Dorris, California, this fall. The new location is about eight miles from the present site of the mill. The company has about 35,000,000 feet of timber in what is known as the Vanata tract.
Inability to get timber near the present location of the mill made a move imperative, was decided early this season. Officers of the company decided to move to a new location near the timber stand but were forced to abandon this plan due to inability to secure a good water supply, vital to successful operation of the mill.
At a meeting held in Dorris, citizens of that community pledged themselves to secure a right-of-way for the mill from Dorris to the timber if the mill is would be built in the town. This has been done and the mill is now cutting fir timbers to be used in construction of the new plant.
An effort to purchase Weyerhaeuser timber near the present mill site was unsuccessful." (The Evening Herald)
Inability to get timber near the present location of the mill made a move imperative, was decided early this season. Officers of the company decided to move to a new location near the timber stand but were forced to abandon this plan due to inability to secure a good water supply, vital to successful operation of the mill.
At a meeting held in Dorris, citizens of that community pledged themselves to secure a right-of-way for the mill from Dorris to the timber if the mill is would be built in the town. This has been done and the mill is now cutting fir timbers to be used in construction of the new plant.
An effort to purchase Weyerhaeuser timber near the present mill site was unsuccessful." (The Evening Herald)