ACKLEY BROTHERS LBR CO. - 1904 - 19
July 7, 1904: “Harry Ackley returned from Port Townsend and Portland the first of the week. While in the former place he secured a five years lease to a block of water front adjoining Goeller's planing mill and factory. In Portland he engaged the services of a millwright who will be here in about a week.
Mr. Ackley has bought the Fitch saw mill and the plant will be moved to Klamath Falls. It is his intention to commence driving piles right away for the foundation of the mill and yards. The logs will be towed up from near Keno and he expects to have the mill in operation this summer.” (Klamath Republican)
Mr. Ackley has bought the Fitch saw mill and the plant will be moved to Klamath Falls. It is his intention to commence driving piles right away for the foundation of the mill and yards. The logs will be towed up from near Keno and he expects to have the mill in operation this summer.” (Klamath Republican)
July 28, 1904: “Harry Ackley is hauling lumber from the Keno sawmill by boat for his new building on the banks of Lake Ewauna. He will try and have his new mill in running order this fall.” (Klamath Republican)
September 22, 1904: “A raft of 100 logs was brought up from Keno Friday for H.M. Ackley's new saw mill.” (Klamath Republican)
October 6, 1904: “H.M. Ackley and Sam Carmichael have been at Keno this week looking after the rafting of logs for the former's new saw mill.” (Klamath Republican)
October 27, 1904: “H.M. Ackley's new saw mill started running last week, and is doing first class work. Mr. Ackley will saw the lumber for the completion of his mill first, but soon expects to be ready to supply the trade.” (Klamath Republican)
December 29, 1904: "Ackley Brothers are still enlarging and improving their sawmill on Lake Ewauna. The mill is now working to capacity, changing logs into lumber as fast as they can be brought here from Keno." (Klamath Republican)
February 5, 1905: "Ackley Brothers have a new sawmill on Lake Ewauna in Klamath Falls. This sawmill has a capacity of 12,000 feet daily, and although it was only completed last August, it is doing a thriving business. The capacity is being increased through the winter months for the spring work. This mill procures its logs from the Keno country, 12 miles distant, which are towed by boats up the Klamath river, and through Lake Ewauna. The lumber consists principally of fir and pine and is good quality. The mill caters to a local trade, and is not yet able to supply the demand. It expects by night and day run to meet the demand in a measure the coming season. It has electric lights, telephones and modern improvements, and the young men behind it are worthy of the strong support they are receiving." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
June 1, 1905: “Sam Carmichael, who has been working at Ackley's lumber camp near Keno, had the misfortune to break his leg yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock. Mr. Carmichael was loading logs from a skidway and while cutting a log his leg was caught under the handle of his hook and was broken below the knee. He was brought to town on the boat and was attended by Dr. Merryman. The break will be examined and set today.” (Klamath Republican)
August 17, 1905: “The Ackley Bros. Saw mill has been running the past week under full head of steam and sawing on the average of 15000 feet, board measure, a day.” (Klamath Republican)
August 31, 1905: “The Steamer Gen. Canby arrived in port Tuesday with a raft of 60,000 feet of logs for the Ackley Bros. Saw mill.” (Klamath Republican)
September 21, 1905: “STRAYED--- From Ackley's logging camp above Keno, one bay mare marked L on left front shoulder, weight about 1500 pounds, one bay horse marked JW on left front shoulder, weight about 1500. Notify Ackley, a logging camp, 5 miles on river above Keno.” (Klamath Republican)
October 5, 1905: “Another boom of logs belonging to Ackley Bros. Broke loose from its moorings near the mill Tuesday and the logs were scattered over the lake. The launch was kept busy yesterday gathering them up.” (Klamath Republican)
October 12, 1905: “Ackley Bros. Are busy this week getting out an order for 90,000 feet of three inch tank stock to be used for building the flume for the Klamath Falls Light & Water Company. The lumber is being surfaced at Goellers Planing Mill.” (Klamath Republican)
March 8, 1906: “The capacity of this plant will be the same as last year---16000 feet per day. Alterations and improvements have been made in the mill so as to reduce to a minimum the cost of production and prevent the possibility of shut-downs and delays. In course of erection is a dry kiln, which is badly needed. The capacity of the kiln is 15000 every four days. Later in the year it is the intention of Messrs. Ackley to increase this, in order to anticipate the demand which will undoubtedly be made on them for their finished product.
This firm has not a foot of lumber on hand and if they were ready to run now, the entire capacity of their plant would be used up daily.
It will probably be six weeks before they will be ready to begin operations, but they are putting forth every effort possible to expedite the work of improving their plant, and hope to be able to start at an earlier date.” (Klamath Republican)
This firm has not a foot of lumber on hand and if they were ready to run now, the entire capacity of their plant would be used up daily.
It will probably be six weeks before they will be ready to begin operations, but they are putting forth every effort possible to expedite the work of improving their plant, and hope to be able to start at an earlier date.” (Klamath Republican)
July 19, 1906: “Ackley Brothers have purchased of the Doten heirs 100 acres of timber land, the timber to be hauled to the Falls. They have procured a right of way through Mrs. Snowgoose's field to the river, where they will haul the timber for shipment. They have already begun work, and a lively time may be expected in this camp.” (Klamath Republican)
July 26, 1906: “ Ackley Brothers, received a new 20 h.p. Boiler, weighing 8000 pounds. This addition to their mill was made necessary by the increasing demand for lumber. They are now getting out material for the $40,000 home to be erected by David Doak on his extensive property near Odessa.” (Klamath Republican)
August 2, 1906: “Mr. Walla Preston has pitched his tent in Keno while he is logging for Ackley.” (Klamath Republican)
August 9, 1906: “Mr. Ackley is putting up a cook house 14 x 40 feet, to feed his logging men. Jeff Howard, of Ashland, is driving one of Ackley's teams” & “Mr. Ackley has purchased four heavy draft horses to log with. The purchase price was $900.” {Klamath Republican)
January 17, 1907: “The snow is just about right for logging on sleds, and Mr. Ackley and Harry Wall are utilizing the time.” (Klamath Republican)
March 14, 1907: “The Ackley mill will resume operations, April 1.” (Klamath Republican)
May 30, 1907: “Mr. Ackley has secured a high wheel truck with which to haul log timbers to the river.” (Klamath Republican)
June 13, 1907: “The logging business has begun in earnest. Ackley has put his teams to hauling for his mill." (Klamath Republican)
June 20, 1907: “Ackley Brothers have a lease on the steamer Canby. They will overhaul and improve it and use it to transport logs from Keno to their mill at Klamath Falls.” (Klamath Republican)
April 27, 1908: “Ackley Bros. Still have most of their logs piled up in the timber. There was so little snow this Winter that it was impossible to bring them out on sleighs, so that it will be necessary to haul them out during the Summer. Large piles of logs ready for the mill can be seen all through the timber below Dorris.” (The Evening Herald)
May 29, 1908: “ John Ackley will also begin logging for his mill in a few days.” (The Evening Herald)
April 30, 1908: “John Ackley is moving his logging camp to the site of the burned sawmill on the Snowgoose place.” (Klamath Republican)
September 5, 1908: “Wm. Jennison, who has been employed at Ackley's mill, is with the rock crusher during a temporary shut down of the mill.” (The Evening Herald)
February 18, 1909: “Ackley Bros. Have received the new machinery which is to become an addition to their mill and which is to be used in the manufacture of box lumber. The machinery is from the well known Racine Iron Works, of Racine, Wisconsin, one of the largest manufacturers of saw mill machinery in Wisconsin. The big band saw received by Ackleys is said to be one of the best that this firm turns out.
The machinery is now being installed by H. M. Ackley and A. F. Stankey, and it is planned to have the plant ready to begin operations by the first of March. Ackleys have a quantity of dry lumber in the yards which will be resawed for box lumber, and by the time this supply is exhausted it is expected that the mill will be sawing logs.
The product of the plant is to be shipped to San Francisco and Los Angeles. There is a first class market in California for Oregon pine box lumber, and it is a great money maker for the saw mill men who can thus dispose of their excess stock of common lumber.
This section is destined to become a great box manufacturing center. Ackley Bros. Are the second firm to engage in the business, the Long Lake mill being the pioneers in this county. It is predicted that before many years there will be many more large factories established here to engage in the manufacture of fruit and other boxes. The market for most of this product will be in California.” (Klamath Republican)
The machinery is now being installed by H. M. Ackley and A. F. Stankey, and it is planned to have the plant ready to begin operations by the first of March. Ackleys have a quantity of dry lumber in the yards which will be resawed for box lumber, and by the time this supply is exhausted it is expected that the mill will be sawing logs.
The product of the plant is to be shipped to San Francisco and Los Angeles. There is a first class market in California for Oregon pine box lumber, and it is a great money maker for the saw mill men who can thus dispose of their excess stock of common lumber.
This section is destined to become a great box manufacturing center. Ackley Bros. Are the second firm to engage in the business, the Long Lake mill being the pioneers in this county. It is predicted that before many years there will be many more large factories established here to engage in the manufacture of fruit and other boxes. The market for most of this product will be in California.” (Klamath Republican)
April 15, 1909: “Ackley Bros. Have only about a half million feet of rough lumber on hand, and most of this is box lumber and will be resawed for box material. They will start sawing on Monday and expect to run steady all summer. They have a million and a half feet of logs in the water to begin sawing on. By using their kiln they will have dry lumber within ten days after beginning sawing.” (Klamath Republican)
January 20, 1910: "John Ackley, Harry Wall and Browey are utilizing every moment hauling logs to the river. Every available space on the river front on the Snowgoose ranch is occupied with saw logs and cord wood. The logs are to be transported to Klamath Falls mills. The cord wood goes to the railroad." (Klamath Republican)
April 14, 1910: "Ackley Bros. saw mill is temporarily closed down, the engine having broken down." (Klamath Falls Express)
April 14, 1909: “Ackley Bros. Have only about a half million feet of rough lumber on hand, and most of this is box lumber and will be re-sawed for box material. They will start sawing on Monday and expect to run steady all summer. They have a million and a half feet of logs in the water to begin sawing on. By using their kiln they will have dry lumber within ten days after beginning sawing.” (The Evening Herald)
April 13, 1911: "Ackley Brothers will probably not start their sawmill for a couple of weeks, although the planing mill is running on special orders. Their logging camps have been running all winter, and will probably continue cutting logs during the summer." (Klamath Republican)
June 8, 1911: "John Ackley is building a railroad from his timber, two miles south of Keno, to the river, through the Snowgoose ranch. He expects to haul logs on this road to be taken to Klamath Falls to the Ackley sawmill." (Klamath Republican)
May 30, 1912: "John Ackley is laying track on his logging railroad, and will soon be shipping logs to his mill in Klamath Falls." (Klamath Republican)
June 15, 1912: "John Ackley has his railroad in running order, and is now hauling logs on the road to the river. The cars run by gravity, and the project is a success." (Klamath Republican)
March 25, 1913: “Ackley Brothers saw mill at First street and Klamath Avenue will open for the Summer run between April 1 and 15 with about twenty men employed at the mill.
Owners of the mill, who have a lumber camp near Keno, stated yesterday that they had in the neighborhood of 750,000 feet of logs in the lake at present and are still cutting timber.
The capacity of the Ackley mill is about 30,000 feet a day and it will require a month of steady work before the logs now in the water are sawed into lumber.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
Owners of the mill, who have a lumber camp near Keno, stated yesterday that they had in the neighborhood of 750,000 feet of logs in the lake at present and are still cutting timber.
The capacity of the Ackley mill is about 30,000 feet a day and it will require a month of steady work before the logs now in the water are sawed into lumber.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
June 1, 1913: “Ackley Brothers saw mill is running full time and employing about twenty men. This is located at the corner of First Street and Klamath Avenue and produces about 25,000 feet of lumber each day.
There are about 1,500,000 feet of lumber in the yards at the Ackley mill at present, but the demand is said to be good and the lumber is being sold as fast as it can be hauled to the railroad.
In addition to the twenty men at work at the mill in Klamath Falls, fifteen men are employed at the logging camp near Keno.
In all, about thirty-five men are employed by this concern and at an average wage of $3.00 per day, the payroll will reach $2,730 the month.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
There are about 1,500,000 feet of lumber in the yards at the Ackley mill at present, but the demand is said to be good and the lumber is being sold as fast as it can be hauled to the railroad.
In addition to the twenty men at work at the mill in Klamath Falls, fifteen men are employed at the logging camp near Keno.
In all, about thirty-five men are employed by this concern and at an average wage of $3.00 per day, the payroll will reach $2,730 the month.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
July 19, 1913: “Prentice Puckett was seriously injured this morning at about 10 o'clock when the chain on the logging car of Ackley Brothers on which he was riding broke and let loose the logs, one of which flew up and struck him in the forehead. He was rendered practically unconscious and was hurried to the home of his father-in-law, Thomas McCormick, of Mills Addition, where his wounds were dressed by Dr. R.R. Hamilton.
Mr. Puckett was riding on one of the logging cars which run down an inclined track by gravitation, when the chain holding the logs on the car on which he rode suddenly broke, letting the logs loose. One of the logs hit him in the forehead. His arm was also badly hurt.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
Mr. Puckett was riding on one of the logging cars which run down an inclined track by gravitation, when the chain holding the logs on the car on which he rode suddenly broke, letting the logs loose. One of the logs hit him in the forehead. His arm was also badly hurt.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
February 23, 1925: “Harry M. Ackley returned from Pokegama yesterday with a new gang edger which he had shipped to that point for his sawmill at this place. He states that by the time the spring run begins he will have his mill in tiptop shape with a number of improvements added.” (Klamath Republican)
August 17, 1905: "The Ackley Brothers sawmill is under full steam daily and is sawing 15,000 feet a day." (Klamath Republican)
June 20, 1907: "Local transportation companies are becoming more numerous each day. The latest to enter the freighting business on the water are Ackley Bros., owners of a large sawmill in this city. In order to insure the prompt delivery of logs at their mill they have taken a three years' lease on the steamer Canby and will operate the same, doing a general freighting business on the lower lake. They are now constructing barges and equipping themselves with all necessary properties for carrying on a general freighting business." (The Sacramento Bee)
September 12, 1907: “The Ackley saw mill closed down for the season last Saturday night. There are nearly 1,500,000 feet of lumber in their yard. The planing mill will remain operation probably all winter.” (Klamath Republican)
December 12, 1907: “John Ackley seems to be busy getting ready for winter logging.” (Klamath Republican)
May 13, 1908: “Ackley Bros. Have an immense amount of logs piled up in the woods and they now have a small crew at work hauling them out.” (The Evening Herald)
July 4, 1908: "Fire in the lumber camps near Keno destroyed more than 100,000 feet of sawlogs belonging to Ackley Brothers and the loss is stated to be more than $1,000. The fire is of unknown origin. It spread rapidly among the logs, which were piled on skids in the woods. It was extinguished by shoveling dirt on the flames. The fire may delay getting out the large amount of lumber now needed in this vicinity." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
November 26, 1908: “John Ackley is up from Keno where he has been putting in logs for the Ackley Bros. Mill. He states that he had to stop hauling on account of the wet weather which makes the roads to muddy to travel. He has been hauling the logs to the river as fast as were cut and he now has enough in the water to supply the mill for some time. He does not think it will be necessary to put in a camp to log this winter as they have plenty of logs ahead and it is as cheap hauling in the summer as in the winter.” (Klamath Republican)
February 15, 1909: "Ackley Brothers, another large lumber firm, are now installing machinery for a box factory to be operated in connection with the sawmill." (The Sacramento Bee)
February 18, 1909: “Ackley Bros. Will install a band resaw about March 1 in their mill on the lake front and manufacture box shook.” (Klamath Falls Express)
April 22, 1909: "Ackley Bros. shipped the first carload of box material to California. The material is for orange boxes and was shipped to the California Fruit Exchange at Los Angeles." (The Evening Herald)
September 1, 1909: "Ackley Brothers are to engage extensively in the manufacture of shooks this fall and winter. This will add another link in the chain that will strengthen the business welfare of the city." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
September 7, 1909: "C.D. Shorpening, chief electrician of the light and water company here, met with a painful accident by bringing his head in contact with a live wire while working on an electric motor at Ackley's sawmill Saturday afternoon. The shock rendered him unconscious. Medical aid was summoned and he was removed to his home at once. While his condition is serious, Dr. Merryman considers the symptoms favorable for his recovery." (Morning Oregonian)
January 1910: "Ackley Bros. Klamath Falls will cut 4 million feet this year." (The Timberman, Vol. 11)
April 7, 1910: "The Canby on her last trip brought in a raft of 100,000 feet of logs for Ackley Bros." (Klamath Republican)
August 11, 1910: "Ackley Bros. shipped 30,000 feet of lumber to D. B. Campbell at Rattlesnake Point yesterday." (Klamath Falls Express)
February 3, 1911: "Harry Ackley, of the Ackley Brothers Lumber Company, has returned from Portland, where he purchased a large amount of new machinery which is to be added to their local saw and planing mill in this city." (The Sacramento Bee)
April 1912: "J.S. and H.M. Ackley constitute the firm of Ackley Bros. This company caters to local trade and cuts about 25,000 feet daily." (The Timberman, Vol. 13)
May 31, 1912: “John Ackley is laying track on his logging railroad, and will soon be shipping logs to his sawmill in Klamath Falls.” (The Evening Herald)
June 15, 1912: "The fire department was called out about 8 o'clock last evening on a report that Ackley Brothers mill was on fire. After making a run to the scene the firemen discovered that the supposed fire was nothing more than live steam escaping from a pipe near the office building. Some one had seen the cloud of what appeared to be smoke and turned in an alarm." (The Evening Herald)
June 1912: "Ackley Bros.' sawmill, Klamath Falls, which has been down for several months, resumed operations early in June. The capacity of the plant has been increased." (The Timberman, Vol. 13)
June 15, 1912: "Ackley Bros.' sawmill in Klamath Falls began its season's sawing today. H.M. Ackley looks after the mill, which turns out about 20,000 feet a day, and his brother, J.S. Ackley, has charge of the logging operations down the river 24 miles, near Keno. The Big Basin Lumber Co. has bought Ackley Bros.' output for the season." (American Lumberman)
March 12, 1913: "Logs for Ackley Brothers mill are being put in the water, and will be rafted to the mill when needed. The owners have not decided upon the time the mill will open." (The Evening Herald)
April 9, 1913: “Messrs. Harry Ackley and Tom Kinney went to Worden yesterday to open up the Ackley Bros.' lumber camp at that place.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
July 13, 1913: "Ackley Bros.' sawmill began the season's run in May and will operation for about six months. This plant, located at Klamath Falls, cuts about 25,000 feet per day and this year is disposing of its output to the Big Basin Lumber Co. The firm operates its own logging camps near Keno." (The Timberman, Vol. 14)
July 24, 1913: "Prentice Puckett was brought to the city Friday morning from Keno in a semi-unconsious condition as the result of an accident which occurred today. He is at the home of his father-in-law, Thos. McCormick, in Mills addition, and is attended by Dr. Hamilton.
Puckett was braking on the logging car for Ackley Bros., and as the car, loaded with logs, was coming down the hill, the brake pole came loose, striking on the face and arm. He sustained a gash on the nose and his arm was badly cut. He was picked up unconscious, and hurried to this city, and is still in a semi-unconscious condition as a result of his injury." (Klamath Republican)
Puckett was braking on the logging car for Ackley Bros., and as the car, loaded with logs, was coming down the hill, the brake pole came loose, striking on the face and arm. He sustained a gash on the nose and his arm was badly cut. He was picked up unconscious, and hurried to this city, and is still in a semi-unconscious condition as a result of his injury." (Klamath Republican)
September 4, 1913: "John Ackley is now moving his logging outfit to what is known as the Sleep Camp." (Klamath Republican)
November 1913: "Ackley Bros., of Klamath Falls, Ore., have leased their logging railroad to Big Basin Logging Co. A logging donkey is used." (The Timberman, Vol. 15)
June 1914: "Ackley Brothers' Mill at Klamath Falls has resumed operations for the summer. They expect to cut between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 feet during the season, and are well supplied with logs, as their camps have been operating all Winter and Spring." (The Timberman, Vol. 15)
February 16, 1915: “Avery & Tarbell have placed a fine lot of sawlogs at Snowgoose's landing for Ackley Bros., who conduct a sawmill at Klamath Falls.” & “Jacquette & Lang are cutting sawlogs for Ackley's sawmill. The snow is quite deep, but the boys are cutting just the same.” (The Evening Herald)
April 2, 1915: "Prentiss Puckett has begun hauling logs for Ackley Bros. Lumber company." (The Evening Herald)
July 11, 1915: "The Ackley Brothers Saw mill is again in operation after several months idleness. The company has over twenty-five men working." (Klamath Falls Northwestern)
July 19, 1915: "Ackley brothers have just closed a contract to turn out 4,000,000 feet of lumber in their mill at Klamath Falls." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
August 1915: "Ackley Bros., Klamath Falls, have begun operations. The mill will cut about 4,000,000 feet under contract." (The Timberman, Vol. 16)
August 12, 1916: "J.A. Poole has purchased four draft horses, and soon will begin logging operations in the Keno country for Ackley brothers. He bought three of the horses from Liskey brothers and one from Harrison Brown." (The Evening Herald)
October 9, 1916: "Mr. Ball took up a load of logs for Ackley Brothers sawmill at Klamath Falls last week with his steamboat." (The Evening Herald)
December 27, 1916: "Ackley Brothers are building a logging road on the north side of the river to haul logs to the river to be transported to the mill in Klamath Falls." (The Evening Herald)
January 12, 1917: “The cold weather has been favorable for sleigh logging for some time and several camps are taking advantage of the opportunity. The Ackley Brothers who recently purchased a thousand acres of stumpage near Keno have been busy for some time and when spring comes will have their logging road graded and rails laid as well as a good quantity of logs decked along the track." (The Weekly Klamath Record)
February 9, 1917: "Bert Tompkins, sawyer at Ackley Brothers' mill, is reported to be improving at the Blackburn hospital, where he has been confined for some time." (The Evening Herald)
February 24, 1917: "A new engine for Ackley Bros sawmill in this city has been received and installed at the mill, in place of one of the old ones, which had become worn out, for the season's cut of lumber." (The Evening Herald)
May 25, 1917: "Ackley Brothers now have a logging railroad running from the mountains to a point near the Keno Bridge where they dump the logs into the river to be taken to their mill at Klamath Falls. Captain Ball was in Keno Wednesday with a boatload of material for Ackley's logging camp. The captain will take Ackley's logs to the Falls." (The Evening Herald)
June 20, 1919: "The first logging railroad which will connect with the new Strahorn Railroad has been started by Ackley brothers, and will run from a point near Dairy into the Swan Lake section, where the firm has valuable timber holdings." (The Sacramento Bee)
June 22, 1919: "Work on the first logging railroad which will connect with the new Strahorn railroad has been started by the Ackley brothers and will extend from the Strahorn road, a short distance this side of Dairy, into the Swan lake section, where the firm has valuable timber holdings. For the past few years Ackley brothers, which is the oldest sawmill concern in Klamath county, has been taking logs from the Keno section, 12 miles south of this city and bringing them up the Klamath river, but the Strahorn road will make possible carrying of the Swan lake logs in by rail. The mill may be operated here all next winter." (The Sunday Oregonian)
June 25, 1919: "Harry Ackley made a trip to the Swan Lake District today. He reports that good progress is being made on the logging railroad which the Ackley Brothers are building from the Strahorn line to tap their timber in that district. A large amount of lumber is now being hauled in in the Strahorn line, he says." (The Evening Herald)