Fidelity Lumber Co.
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- Jan 2, 1908Fifty Jobs and a Logging Camp Pull Newport Out of the PanicA new McInnis Brothers logging contract south of town gives nearly fifty men six months of work and eases a winter of post-panic unemployment.Newport, WA
- Apr 16, 1908The Woods Come Back to Life Around NewportLogging camps and river drives restart, with a million feet coming down the West Branch and Victor Pierson set to run the main-river drive.Newport, WA
- Jun 11, 1908The Pend Oreille Swells Toward a Record CrestHeavy rains in Montana send drift and broken booms downstream, threatening Newport’s mills and log supply.Newport, WA
- Jun 25, 1908Fidelity Lumber Says the Mill Will Rise This SummerA 25-million-foot sawmill across the Pend Oreille, a Great Northern spur, and a cable ferry: Newport's timber future looked certain in 1908.Newport, WA
- Jun 25, 1908A Morning Boat to Metaline — and a Waterfront to RebuildThe steamer Ione began daily service on the Pend Oreille this week, promising a one-day run to Metaline and Sunday excursions out of Newport, while the falling river exposes wrecked piers, booms and 200 feet of dock.Newport, WA
- Jul 23, 1908Newport Bets $12,000 on a Concrete Hotel — and a Street of New HomesA three-story, thirty-room hotel at Washington and Second leads a summer building rush that will remake several Newport blocks.Newport, WA
- Aug 13, 1908A Spokane Lumber Giant Swallows the Arden MillThe Fidelity Lumber Company bought out Arden's holdings and promised a new crew, creating one of Eastern Washington's largest lumber combinations.Arden, WA
- Sep 10, 1908A Town Cut Off by Water: Newport's Bid for a Free FerryBusiness men pack City Hall to demand better ferry service across the Pend Oreille, as the Fidelity Lumber Co. offers to pay half the cost if the town and Bonner County come through.City Hall, Newport, WA
- Oct 8, 1908Two Local Engineers Buy Newport's Darkened Light PlantAfter a broken crank shaft left the town in darkness, the Flynn brothers purchased the Northern Electric Co. and promised 24-hour service.Newport, WA
- Nov 19, 1908A 150-Man Spur for the New Fidelity MillCaughren & Woldson took the contract for three miles of Great Northern spur track to Fidelity Lumber’s new mill, with heavy rock cuts and a payroll paid through a Newport bank.Newport, WA
- Nov 19, 1908The Tug That Sank at Her Own MooringsThe Defender goes down in ten feet of water off the Pend Oreille landing while low water ties up log barges on the bars and fog strands a sixty-passenger steamer below Boundary Island.Newport, WA
- Dec 10, 1908A Panic Year Boom: Newport Built Through Hard TimesDespite a national financial panic, Newport added 87 homes, six concrete business blocks, new depots, churches, and a reshaped downtown—proud evidence of a town betting on itself.Washington Avenue, Newport, WA
- Dec 17, 1908A Lumber Company Builds the FerryFidelity Lumber Co. will take charge of the Pend Oreille crossing after Newport residents pledge $1,000 toward a $2,300 ferry.Newport, WA
- Dec 17, 1908Three Wires Over the Pend OreilleNewport's phone company suspends steel wire across the river to the Fidelity mill, clearing steamboat stacks by 50 feet.Newport, WA
- Dec 31, 1908The Kaniksu’s 1908 Fire Season: 40 Blazes, $3,569 Spent, and a Warning in the Young TimberFederal rangers and local crews kept the Kaniksu National Forest from another Alispel-scale conflagration, but the season still burned 700 acres and cost an estimated $15,000 in damaged reproduction.Cusick, WA
- Mar 4, 1909Five Million Feet of White Pine Sold Off the KaniksuA federal forestry agent comes to Newport to close a deal with the Fidelity Lumber Co. — 5,000,000 feet of standing timber at four dollars a thousand.Newport, WA
- Mar 4, 1909A Ferry Landing Secured—and a Mill Kept in TownRailroad grants river frontage; Bonner County will run a free crossing to the Fidelity mill starting in April.Newport, WA
- Jun 17, 1909150 Jobs Waiting at the River: Fidelity Mill Set to Open Across from NewportWith 15 million feet of logs in the boom, the Fidelity Lumber Co. races toward a July 10 start and a two-shift payroll for about 150 men.Newport, WA
- Jul 22, 1909A Town Builds Its Own Ferry to Reach the New MillCitizens and the Fidelity Lumber Co. raised about $1,000 to link Newport with the company's new plant and open the far bank to ranchers; Bonner County now runs it free.Newport, WA
- Aug 12, 1909Smoke on Skookum Creek: Crews Catch a Kaniksu Fire Before It RunsA blaze on the east fork of Skookum Creek draws men from the Forest Service and two lumber companies — while more fires burn near Priest Lake and the supervisor heads in with a crew.Lenora, WA
- Aug 26, 1909Four Sections Burn Along the Pend OreilleA week-long blaze near Ruby Creek is finally checked, leaving ranchers, timber and a county bridge in ashes—and one firefighter carried ten miles to safety.Blueslide, WA
- Oct 14, 1909A Broken Canthook, a Crushed Spine: Newport Logger Rushed to SpokaneSamuel McGeelies was loading logs for the Fidelity Lumber Co. when a second-tier log broke loose and struck him; he was taken to St. Luke's Hospital in critical condition.Newport, WA
- Oct 21, 1909Loggers Beat the Northern Pacific Over Horses Starved in TransitA Spokane jury awarded Victor and Oscar Pierson $1,999.99 after their horses sickened and died on a railroad car—a verdict the paper said set a costly precedent.Spokane County Courthouse, Spokane, WA
- Jul 7, 1910A Brick Depot Rises, and Newport Bets on the RailroadPressed brick arrives from St. Paul as the Great Northern builds its new Newport station — and freight figures show the town's lumber and brick trade climbing month over month.Newport, WA
- Jul 14, 1910A Wall of Flame Closes In on Spirit LakeA long dry spell turns Pend Oreille County's logged-over hills into a tinderbox, and a fire that starts almost inside Spirit Lake's town limits sends mill crews, surveyors and railroad engines scrambling to hold the line.Spirit Lake, WA
- Jul 14, 1910The River Full of Logs: Newport's Timber Boom Goes MechanicalFrom Parker Mountain to Ione the Pend Oreille is choked with logs bound for the mill — and the Panhandle Lumber Co. is trading horses for donkey engines.Newport, WA
- Jul 21, 1910The Woods Are Tinder: Fire Crews Battle Blazes Across the Pend Oreille ValleyWith the forest dry as tinder, deputy fire wardens, lumber crews and ranchers scramble to contain dozens of small fires — while a landowner's brush burn kills two people near Colville and lands him under arrest.Newport, WA