WENDLING-JOHNSON LUMBER CO.
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Lane County - Acme
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May 10, 1912: “While working at Acme last Saturday Warren Poe fell from the wharf at Wendling-Johnson Lumber Co's mill to a raft which was lying alongside and cut several gashes in his face. A surgeon was called to patch up his injuries.” (The West)
August 2, 1912: “Another extensive purchase of timber land by the Wendling-Johnson Lumber Co. was announced a few days ago.
There were 3700 acres purchased and it was owned by 21 individuals and companies all of them residents of Lane County. The total amount paid was about $150,000 or an average of a little over $40 per acre. All of the land is in the Siuslaw Valley and most of it near the river above tidewater. The price paid is at the rate of $1.00 per thousand feet for the estimated amount of timber on the land.
The deal was negotiated by the Bounds Timber Co. of Eugene.
The Wendling-Johnson Company now own about a billion and a half feet of timber in the Siuslaw country all of which they have purchased within a little over a year past.” (The West)
There were 3700 acres purchased and it was owned by 21 individuals and companies all of them residents of Lane County. The total amount paid was about $150,000 or an average of a little over $40 per acre. All of the land is in the Siuslaw Valley and most of it near the river above tidewater. The price paid is at the rate of $1.00 per thousand feet for the estimated amount of timber on the land.
The deal was negotiated by the Bounds Timber Co. of Eugene.
The Wendling-Johnson Company now own about a billion and a half feet of timber in the Siuslaw country all of which they have purchased within a little over a year past.” (The West)
August 2, 1912: “The schooner Coquille sailed Monday for San Francisco with a cargo of lumber from the Wendling-Johnson Co's mill at Acme. The vessel was towed out to sea by the tug Robarts.” (The West)
August 16, 1912: “The Wendling-Johnson Lumber Co. are letting contracts for logs to be put in the river next winter and are planning to operate their mill at Acme next summer.” (The West)
September 13, 1912: “The Wendling-Johnson Co's mill at Acme started up yesterday, after being shut down for some time.” (The West)
March 7, 1913: “After hearing arguments for and against the application of John E. Ryan, representing Wendling-Johnson Lumber Co., for a lease of the Siuslaw River for transporting logs. The county court postponed action on the matter indefinitely. Objections were made that the rates asked were too high and the improvements indefinite.” (The West)
September 24, 1915: “All the properties of the Oregon Fir Trading company, formerly known as the Wendling-Johnson Lumber company, lying in the western part of Lane and Douglas counties, were sold at special master's sale in Eugene Monday afternoon to Melvin L. Hawley, of Chicago, as a representative of the bondholders of the Michigan Trust company, of Grand Rapids, Mich. The consideration was $1,050,000.
The sale was the outcome of a suit brought last summer to foreclose a mortgage for $1,250,000 held by the Michigan Trust company. A decree ordering the property sold was granted by the United States district court in Portland on August 13.
The Wendling-Johnson Lumber company owned one of the sawmills at Acme, a lot of logging paraphernalia, log booms and several thousand acres of timber land along the Siuslaw as well as in the western end of Douglas county. These properties were bonded a number of years ago but the company was unable to operate at a profit owing to the financial depression and the poor market for lumber.
Chas. H. Carey, of the law firm of Carey and Kerr, of Portland, and John A. Keating, special master, who conducted the sale under the court's direction, were here Monday afternoon to attend the sale. It was carried on at the court house door but as there were only two or three persons present it attracted very little attention.---Register.” (The West)
The sale was the outcome of a suit brought last summer to foreclose a mortgage for $1,250,000 held by the Michigan Trust company. A decree ordering the property sold was granted by the United States district court in Portland on August 13.
The Wendling-Johnson Lumber company owned one of the sawmills at Acme, a lot of logging paraphernalia, log booms and several thousand acres of timber land along the Siuslaw as well as in the western end of Douglas county. These properties were bonded a number of years ago but the company was unable to operate at a profit owing to the financial depression and the poor market for lumber.
Chas. H. Carey, of the law firm of Carey and Kerr, of Portland, and John A. Keating, special master, who conducted the sale under the court's direction, were here Monday afternoon to attend the sale. It was carried on at the court house door but as there were only two or three persons present it attracted very little attention.---Register.” (The West)