TUFT LUMBER COMPANY
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Lane County - Tiernan
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CONTINUED FROM: TIERNAN MILL
April 2, 1920: "The Tuft Lumber company completed its organization by electing the following board of directors: M. M. Tuft, C. A. Helwig, Rudolph O. Luders, H. R. Salisbury and J. M. Williams. Mr. Tuft was also elected president of the company while Mr. Salisbury will be the secretary-treasurer. The company is purchasing the Tiernan mill at Beck and will immediately begin operations. The majority of the members of the company are out of town men who have just come to Eugene.
It is said that the company controls a large body of timber adjacent to the plant." (The World)
It is said that the company controls a large body of timber adjacent to the plant." (The World)
April 3, 1920: "M. M. Tuft to San Francisco--M. M. Tuft, president of the recently organized Tuft Lumber company, has gone to San Francisco, where he will spend the next few days attending to business affairs. On his return to this city (Eugene) the main offices of the Tuft Lumber company will be opened here." (Morning Register)
May 13, 1920: “A new lumber company has been organized to operate at Tiernan on the Siuslaw river and is to have its head office in Eugene. The concern, which is to be known as the Tuft Lumber company, is controlled by California capital.” (The Springfield News)
June 23, 1920: "Mrs. M. M. Tuft and son, Stewart, have arrived in Eugene from San Francisco to join Mr. Tuft, who is proprietor of the Tuft Lumber company at Tiernan. They are at the Osburn at present." (Morning Register)
September 4, 1921: "An indication of the betterment of the lumber business is the announcement that the large mill of the Tuft Lumber company at Beck station, on the Coos bay branch of the Southern Pacific and on the banks of the Siuslaw river, will resume operations about September 10 after having been closed down a number of weeks. This plant is one of the largest of the several in that section of the county and when in operation has a large payroll." (Morning Register)
January 5, 1922: "Another large mill on the lower Siuslaw, that of the Tuft Lumber company at Tiernan, is operating steadily and shipping regularly, said Mr. Cushman, but its output goes by rail over the Coos Bay branch of the Southern Pacific." (Morning Register)
January 20, 1922: A Lumbering Survey: "Incorporated Oregon, April 1920. Mill constructed 1915. Incorporators: President, M.M. Tuft, First National bank Bldg., Eugene, Ore.; vice-president, A.O. Ludwig, San Francisco; secretary-treasurer, H.H. Salisbury, Portland, (also tractor Rep. Gen'l Motors Co.).
Own no timber. Purchase stumpages as needed. Have leased operations to Kirby Bros., Mapleton (P.O.) and (Beck) loading point and toll station. Kirby Bros. have secured the services of Stephens-Farris Lumber Co., of Walton to run the sawmill.
Sawmill: Double circular headrig, 56", 56". No resaw. Six-inch Portland Iron Works edger. 8x15 No. 44 A American planer; also an old sticker, not connected.
Capacity, 35M. Timber: Old growth yellow fir." (Lumber)
Own no timber. Purchase stumpages as needed. Have leased operations to Kirby Bros., Mapleton (P.O.) and (Beck) loading point and toll station. Kirby Bros. have secured the services of Stephens-Farris Lumber Co., of Walton to run the sawmill.
Sawmill: Double circular headrig, 56", 56". No resaw. Six-inch Portland Iron Works edger. 8x15 No. 44 A American planer; also an old sticker, not connected.
Capacity, 35M. Timber: Old growth yellow fir." (Lumber)
April 24, 1922: "The lumber prospects in Western Lane are bright with two or three new concerns planning future operations, according to C. P. Devereaux, local timber dealer, who has returned from several days in the coast section except the Tuft Lumber company mill at Point Terrace. The mill, which has been operated several months cutting a large quantity of the Kirby Brothers' logs, has closed as the cut is finished." (The Eugene Guard)
April 27, 1922: "M. M. Tuft, manager of the Tuft Lumber company, spent yesterday at Tiernan." (Morning Register)
April 14, 1923: "M. M. Tuft, proprietor of the Tuft Lumber company which operates at Beck on the Coos Bay line, has returned there after a visit of a few days at his home. The mill at Beck has been in operation for the past several weeks and several new houses are soon to be ready for occupancy for the mill employes." (Morning Register)
April 17, 1923: "The Tuft Lumber company was closing a deal for timberland with the Saubert estate heirs that will insure a supply of logs for their mill for the next eight or ten months. The timber is in a quarter section, and close to the mill.
S. W. Morrison, Jr., of Salt Lake, who is heavily interested in the mill and who has been in active management of it for the past month, is attending to the transaction." (The Eugene Guard)
S. W. Morrison, Jr., of Salt Lake, who is heavily interested in the mill and who has been in active management of it for the past month, is attending to the transaction." (The Eugene Guard)
April 24, 1923: "WANTED--Edgerman, millwright and yard and mill men, at our plant at Beck. Call Tuft Lumber company, room 11, First National Bank Bldg." (The Eugene Guard)
May 1, 1923: "Arthur W. Morris of Eugene has purchased the interest of M. M. Tuft in the Tuft Lumber company at Beck, on the Coos Bay line. The company will be called the Siuslaw Mill company." (The World)
September 24, 1923: "Charles Hammond, one of the brothers owning the Hammond Lumber company, which operates on the North Santiam, Linn county, is here today on business. He was formerly connected with the Tuft Lumber company at Tiernan." (The Eugene Guard)
January 7, 1930: "Three condemnation suits to obtain property for right-of-way for the Siuslaw highway were started here Monday by the state highway commission. The suits are against Jorgen Neilsen, Ray Walker and the Tuft Lumber company.
The suit against the Tuft Lumber company is unusual in the fact that there is such a wide margin of difference between the amount offered by the county and the amount asked by the property owners.
The county holds the land needed to be worth $300. The lumber company holds out for $32,000.
The county in connection with the Siuslaw highway project has had to acquire 66 separate pieces of property. Most of the land needed has already been obtained." (Eugene Register)
The suit against the Tuft Lumber company is unusual in the fact that there is such a wide margin of difference between the amount offered by the county and the amount asked by the property owners.
The county holds the land needed to be worth $300. The lumber company holds out for $32,000.
The county in connection with the Siuslaw highway project has had to acquire 66 separate pieces of property. Most of the land needed has already been obtained." (Eugene Register)
Continued to: Siuslaw Mill Company