KLAMATH AGENCY
(KIR)
June 1870: "Sikes Worden came to the Klamath Agency in June 1870 and secured employment at the Agency, the first work of Sikes Worden being to assist in hewing the timber for the sawmill at that place." From Mr. Worden's Obituary, May 24, 1911. (The Evening Herald)
May 2, 1895: “A.H. Engle, the sawyer, is comfortably settled with his family at the Agency and busy with the lumber department.” (The Klamath Star)
May 26, 1895: "The sawmill has turned out a large amount of lumber for fencing, house building, etc., and comforts of well built homes are beckoning sweetly to the Klamath tribe.
Some time ago Dr. Petit was slightly perplexed. He wanted a large milldam whereby to increase the working capacity of the sawmill several thousand feet per day, but--the appropriation! That was the pullback. It was only $500, and as no contractor would have undertaken the job for less than $1500, the dam problem at first seemed complicated with United States cussedness and therefore difficult to unravel. But he is rapidly unraveling it now. The dam will be built, and it will be first class. He has a first class expert sawman in the person of A. H. Engle, who has built many great mill dams in the United States; he has a great many hired whites and volunteer Indians within his control, and best of all, he has the sort of will which is invariably accompanied by a way to get there. With all this help the dam, a first class one in all respects, is going up, and Uncle Sam may now keep that extra $1000 under Carlisles lock and key." (Klamath County Star)
Some time ago Dr. Petit was slightly perplexed. He wanted a large milldam whereby to increase the working capacity of the sawmill several thousand feet per day, but--the appropriation! That was the pullback. It was only $500, and as no contractor would have undertaken the job for less than $1500, the dam problem at first seemed complicated with United States cussedness and therefore difficult to unravel. But he is rapidly unraveling it now. The dam will be built, and it will be first class. He has a first class expert sawman in the person of A. H. Engle, who has built many great mill dams in the United States; he has a great many hired whites and volunteer Indians within his control, and best of all, he has the sort of will which is invariably accompanied by a way to get there. With all this help the dam, a first class one in all respects, is going up, and Uncle Sam may now keep that extra $1000 under Carlisles lock and key." (Klamath County Star)
July 11, 1895: “Sawyer Engle is kept very busy putting in the latest improvements on machinery, so that next week the hum and murmur of the sawmill industry will blend with Mrs. Hemans' sounds of industry.” (The Klamath Star)
July 25, 1895: “A.H. Engle has completed the sawmill, and everything is humming around there. Galarneau the wide awake carpenter, will have plenty of business on hand to keep his collar unbuttoned and his hammer bright.” (The Klamath Star)
August 11, 1899: "A. H. Engle, head sawyer at the Klamath Agency sawmill, accompanied by his family and C. Barker, came in Wednesday." (The Medford Mail)
February 22, 1900: “A.H. Engle, the sawyer at Klamath Agency, and his wife were in town on Saturday, visiting their daughter, Mrs. Castel.” (Klamath Republican)
April 18, 1901: “A.H. Engle, sawyer at Klamath Agency arrived in town yesterday to remain a few days.” (Klamath Falls Express)
August 18, 1910: "N. D. Ginsbach, the sawyer and engineer at the Klamath Agency mill, was down Friday on business and returned next morning. The mill saws all the lumber for the Indians' buildings, and this year sawed 500 logs into lumber. They develop forty horse power from a spring near the mill, and he says that some of the boys who are receiving instruction in the mill are developing a great deal of ingenuity." (Klamath Republican)
July 10, 1913: "The sawmill and electric light plant at the Klamath agency have been destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire unknown. Both establishments were tribal properties and will be rebuilt at once. The loss is estimated at $8000." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
July 10, 1913: "Fire, supposed to have started from a pile of shavings, Sunday destroyed the sawmill, and the electric light and water plant at the agency on the Klamath Indian Reservation. The loss was about $8,000 and is covered by insurance.
The sawmill is one of the landmarks of the reservation. It was built in 1870, Hon. W. D. Moore, father of Charles and Rufus Moore, being the millwright at the time. The plant has cut practically all of the lumber used in construction work on the reservation." (Klamath Republican)
The sawmill is one of the landmarks of the reservation. It was built in 1870, Hon. W. D. Moore, father of Charles and Rufus Moore, being the millwright at the time. The plant has cut practically all of the lumber used in construction work on the reservation." (Klamath Republican)
April 26, 1918: "The sawmill at the Klamath Indian Agency was burned to the ground last night, presumably from incendiary origin. It is reported the lumber piled around the mill was also destroyed. Broken wire service has rendered further particulars unobtainable." (Morning Oregonian)
April 27, 1918: "The Government sawmill at Klamath Agency on Klamath Indian Reservation, thirty miles north of here, was destroyed by fire and the nearby building and lumber piles were burned, according to reports brought to this city.
The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin, as the mill had not been running recently. The matter is being investigated by Federal authorities." (The Sacramento Bee)
The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin, as the mill had not been running recently. The matter is being investigated by Federal authorities." (The Sacramento Bee)
April 30, 1918: "The government sawmill at Klamath agency, on the Klamath Indian reservation, 30 miles north of here, was destroyed last week and the near-by buildings and lumber piles were burned." (The Oregon Daily Journal)