DeARMOND & WESTON
Swan Lake
Continued from: J. P. Jerome Sawmill
February 28, 1918: "The sawmill previously owned by J. P. Jerome in the Swan Lake district has been purchased by the firm of DeArmond & Westfield, thru the agency of the Klamath Title company. The new owners are now operating the mill. Mr. Jerome is now engaged in the lumber business at Susanville, Calif." (The Evening Herald)
July 1918: "Two carloads of lumber from the De Armond & Weston sawmill at Swan Lake constituted the first freight shipment of the Klamath Falls Municipal railroad, under construction by Robert E. Strahorn from Klamath Falls, Ore., to Dairy, a distance of 20 miles. The railroad has been completed to Olene, 12 miles, and the first freight tariff sheet was filed with the Oregon Public Service Commission just in time to permit the shipment of lumber. The two carloads went to the Chelsea Box and Lumber Co. mill on the Southern Pacific a few miles south of Klamath Falls." (The Timberman, Vol. 19)
July 3, 1918: "Promptly after filing of the first tariff of the Klamath Falls railroad with the interstate commerce commission and the state railroad commission the first two carloads of freight were loaded at Olene and brought in to the city Saturday for delivery at the Chelsea Box factory. This being an incident of historical importance. It will be of interest to know that the lumber was hauled by De Armond and Weston from their mill at Swan Lake about eight miles from the temporary terminal at Olene, and there loaded on the first equipment built for the road, flat cars Nos. 301 and 304. Locomotive No. 1 was on this occasion driven by W.E. Bond, Mr. Strahorn's secretary, and fired by Gus Eittrem. They justly feel proud of the honor of officiating, and of the snap shots showing the loading of lumber." (The Evening Herald)