VAUGHAN & BESTER
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Lane County - Cushman
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Continued from: Saubert & Company
April 4, 1919: “Ralph Bernhardt and wife who have been living in town for several months moved this week to Bernhardt creek where Ralph will work in Vaughn & Bester's camp.” (The West)
July 4, 1919: “Vaughn & Bester's logging camp has closed down until after the Fourth.” (The West)
October 3, 1919: "J. A. Bester and Andrew Baker arrived here Tuesday from Coos Bay, bringing up a tow boat which Vaughan & Bester had purchased at that place.
They left Empire Monday afternoon at 2:30, crossed out to sea and came up the coast, arriving off the Siuslaw bar about 2:30 Tuesday morning. There they dropped anchor and waited until daylight then crossed the bar and entered the Siuslaw about 8 o'clock.
The boat will be used by the company for towing rafts from their landing to the saw mill and to the loading station where the logs are loaded on cars for shipment." (The West)
They left Empire Monday afternoon at 2:30, crossed out to sea and came up the coast, arriving off the Siuslaw bar about 2:30 Tuesday morning. There they dropped anchor and waited until daylight then crossed the bar and entered the Siuslaw about 8 o'clock.
The boat will be used by the company for towing rafts from their landing to the saw mill and to the loading station where the logs are loaded on cars for shipment." (The West)
May 14, 1920: "The papers were signed a few days ago by which J. A. Bester obtained a sixty day option on the Saubert mill at Acme paying down a certain sum of cash.
The option is in Mr. Bester's name but it is thought that Mr. Vaughan of Coos Bay is interested in the transaction.
Vaughan & Bester have been running a large logging camp near Acme for several years past, and have been shipping their fir logs to Coos Bay. The freight and cost of loading amounted to about $4.00 per thousand feet which will be saved by manufacturing the logs into lumber here.
We understand the mill will be repaired immediately and new machinery added to put out a good sized pile of lumber every day." (The West)
The option is in Mr. Bester's name but it is thought that Mr. Vaughan of Coos Bay is interested in the transaction.
Vaughan & Bester have been running a large logging camp near Acme for several years past, and have been shipping their fir logs to Coos Bay. The freight and cost of loading amounted to about $4.00 per thousand feet which will be saved by manufacturing the logs into lumber here.
We understand the mill will be repaired immediately and new machinery added to put out a good sized pile of lumber every day." (The West)
May 21, 1920: "In conversation with J. A. Bester a few days ago, he informed us that though the agreement with M. E. Saubert & Co. for the purchase of the Acme mill is signed by him alone, that Vaughn & Bester are the purchasers who are interested in the deal.
Mr. Bester said they intend to go ahead immediately and repair the mill and put in some new machinery, sufficient to cut about 30,000 feet of lumber per day.
Vaughan & Bester have operated a logging camp on Bernhardt Creek, successfully for about three years past, and we wish them success in their mill enterprise." (The West)
Mr. Bester said they intend to go ahead immediately and repair the mill and put in some new machinery, sufficient to cut about 30,000 feet of lumber per day.
Vaughan & Bester have operated a logging camp on Bernhardt Creek, successfully for about three years past, and we wish them success in their mill enterprise." (The West)
June 4, 1920: "A small crew of men began work of repairing the mill at Acme, last Wednesday.
Vaughan & Bester have recently taken an option on the mill and will put it in condition to operate.
The purchasers find it difficult to get lumber to make repairs and the work is delayed some on that account.
Byron Southmayd is in charge of the mill wrights who are doing the work." (The West)
Vaughan & Bester have recently taken an option on the mill and will put it in condition to operate.
The purchasers find it difficult to get lumber to make repairs and the work is delayed some on that account.
Byron Southmayd is in charge of the mill wrights who are doing the work." (The West)
October 1920: "Vaughan & Bester, who have been remodeling and installing new machinery in the old Saubert mill at Acme (Cushman postoffice), will have the plant in operation some time this fall. This is one of the pioneer lumber plants of the lower Siuslaw, but it has been idle for 15 years or more. The new owners are installing new boilers, two of which are new and one from the old original plant. They have just finished laying a pipe line from Saubert Gulch to furnish water. A dry kiln, an electric plant and a shingle mill are among the adjuncts to be put in." (The Timberman, Vol. 21)
January 5, 1922: "The schooner Mary Hanlon is making regular trips between Cushman, on the lower Siuslaw river, and San Pedro, California, carrying lumber to the California city, said I. B. Cushman of Cushman, who is in the city for a few days.
The Mary Hanlon loads at the dock of the Vaughn and Bester sawmill and carries 400,000 feet of lumber at a trip. The mill is said to have enough large orders ahead to keep it in operation throughout the year." (Morning Register)
The Mary Hanlon loads at the dock of the Vaughn and Bester sawmill and carries 400,000 feet of lumber at a trip. The mill is said to have enough large orders ahead to keep it in operation throughout the year." (Morning Register)
October 2, 1922: "Vaughan & Bester, who own and operate the sawmill at Acme, on the lower Siuslaw, soon will build a logging railway several miles long, up Hadsell creek, to bring fir logs down to their plant. There is a large body of timber up that stream which the millmen own or control. This firm also will use the existing logging road up Barnhardt creek to bring cedar logs down for the shingle mill at Betzen." (The World)
1922: From the directory of the logging industry (Pacific Coast): "Vaughan & Bester Lumber Co.; camp address, Cushman; 2 sides; daily output, 60 M; 5 donkey engines; 2 high leads; commissary; 80 men; manager, J. A. Bester; 3 1/2 miles of s.g. track; 40 lb. rail; 2 geared locomotives; fuel used on locomotives, wood; maximum grade, 2 1/2 per cent; 9 logging trucks." (Directory of the logging industry, 1922)
February 24, 1923: "With the prospect of doubling the daily capacity of the Bester & Vaughan sawmill which operates at Cushman, a new logging camp is under way by the concern on Hanson creek near Mapleton, according to J. A. Brewster, one on th proprietors of the plant, who was a business visitor in Eugene. A double shift is soon to be put on at the mill, which will increase its daily output to approximately 80,000 feet of lumber, according to the owner." (The World)
December 1924: "The mill of Vaughn & Bester at Cushman, which was closed all summer, has resumed operations. It has a capacity of 50,000 feet." (The Timberman, Vol. 26)
February 5, 1925: "The Vaughan & Bester sawmill at Cushman on Siuslaw bay has been bought by Charles Farris, formerly of Farris-Stevens Lumber company at Walton, according to announcement here Friday. Mr. Farris and his partner, Charles F. Stevens, recently sold their mill at Walton to Thomas Morgan and associates of Grays Harbor, Wash." (The Turner Tribune)
Continued to: Sunset Lumber Company