ELLINGSON TIMBER COMPANY
Pelican City (Boy Scout Mill)
June 23, 1950: "The old 'Boy Scout' sawmill located on Upper Klamath lake north of Pelican Bay has been bought by the Ellingson Lumber company.
The mill has operated only sporadically during the past several years. According to recorded documents it was bought by the Ellingson company from M.L. Robinson, trustee for the bankrupt Wheeler Pine company, at a $56,100 bid.
Sale was confirmed by the U.S. district court for Northern California, San Francisco.
Property purchased included approximately 125 acres of land and the one-band mill.
The mill was built in the early 1920's by the late F. Hill Hunter and has been under several different ownerships since that time.
Robert Ellingson said his firm has no immediate plans for the operation of the newly acquired property.
The Ellingson company operates a mill at Keno and a planing mill on the Klamath river just south of Klamath Falls." (Herald and News)
The mill has operated only sporadically during the past several years. According to recorded documents it was bought by the Ellingson company from M.L. Robinson, trustee for the bankrupt Wheeler Pine company, at a $56,100 bid.
Sale was confirmed by the U.S. district court for Northern California, San Francisco.
Property purchased included approximately 125 acres of land and the one-band mill.
The mill was built in the early 1920's by the late F. Hill Hunter and has been under several different ownerships since that time.
Robert Ellingson said his firm has no immediate plans for the operation of the newly acquired property.
The Ellingson company operates a mill at Keno and a planing mill on the Klamath river just south of Klamath Falls." (Herald and News)
December 18, 1963: "The second Ellingson Timber Company mill in little more than two weeks fell to flames early this morning.
The Pelican City sawmill, which had been inoperative for about eight years, was consumed by flames that broke out about 4 a.m. following an explosion.
Residents of the area reported that just before the flames became visible, there was an explosion and firemen said that during the height of the blaze, there were several more blasts from the interior of the mill. No cause of the fire has been determined.
The mill, on the shores of Upper Klamath Lake, was the second Ellingson property to be destroyed by fire in little more than two weeks. Nov. 30, Ellingson's mill on Lake Ewauna was leveled by flames.
The Pelican City property reportedly wasn't insured, but an Ellingson spokesman could not be reached to comment on the value of the burned building and equipment.
County firemen reached the burning mill shortly after 4 a.m. and found the building to be an inferno.
Pumping water from the lake, they concentrated on keeping the flames from spreading.
Firemen, working in below freezing weather, directed water at three transformers on poles above the flames and saved them from destruction.
County firemen were supplemented by men from the Suburban, Klamath Falls and Oregon Technical Institute departments.
Besides the transformers, the men also worked on keeping a long conveyor belt frame from burning, so as to confine the blaze to the mill building itself and protect other equipment stacked nearby.
A pump house was saved, but a boiler room was destroyed.
Firemen remained at the scene until after 8 o'clock this morning and the ruins were still smouldering late this morning.
This morning's fire destroyed the last Ellingson mill in the area and marked the last in a series of spectacular blazes which have plagued Ellingson operations through the years." (Herald and News)
The Pelican City sawmill, which had been inoperative for about eight years, was consumed by flames that broke out about 4 a.m. following an explosion.
Residents of the area reported that just before the flames became visible, there was an explosion and firemen said that during the height of the blaze, there were several more blasts from the interior of the mill. No cause of the fire has been determined.
The mill, on the shores of Upper Klamath Lake, was the second Ellingson property to be destroyed by fire in little more than two weeks. Nov. 30, Ellingson's mill on Lake Ewauna was leveled by flames.
The Pelican City property reportedly wasn't insured, but an Ellingson spokesman could not be reached to comment on the value of the burned building and equipment.
County firemen reached the burning mill shortly after 4 a.m. and found the building to be an inferno.
Pumping water from the lake, they concentrated on keeping the flames from spreading.
Firemen, working in below freezing weather, directed water at three transformers on poles above the flames and saved them from destruction.
County firemen were supplemented by men from the Suburban, Klamath Falls and Oregon Technical Institute departments.
Besides the transformers, the men also worked on keeping a long conveyor belt frame from burning, so as to confine the blaze to the mill building itself and protect other equipment stacked nearby.
A pump house was saved, but a boiler room was destroyed.
Firemen remained at the scene until after 8 o'clock this morning and the ruins were still smouldering late this morning.
This morning's fire destroyed the last Ellingson mill in the area and marked the last in a series of spectacular blazes which have plagued Ellingson operations through the years." (Herald and News)