Panhandle Lumber Co.
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- Dec 26, 1907Logging Camps Stir Again After the PanicAfter the financial panic froze the woods, camps around Newport are reopening, adding teams, and waiting for snow to move four million feet of logs.Newport, WA
- 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
- May 7, 1908A Midnight Council Fight Over Rails, Rubbish and ResidencyNewport's council spent a long May evening weighing a railroad franchise, ordering alleys cleaned, and questioning whether one of its own members actually lived in town.Newport, WA
- Jul 23, 1908Fire in the White Pine: Blaze Runs from Blue Slide Toward Calispel MountainLumber companies rush crews to protect one of the Pend Oreille's finest white-pine districts as a forest fire spreads near Ruby Creek.Newport, WA
- Jul 30, 1908A Wall of Fire Above Tacoma CreekA lightning-sparked blaze burns 2,000 acres, jumps a three-mile trench and pulls lumber companies, settlers and the state fire warden into a desperate fight.Newport, WA
- Aug 6, 1908A Wall of Flame at Newport's DoorstepWind-driven fires jump trenches in the Pend Oreille timber country, threatening Scott's Addition and costing ranchers and mills thousands in cordwood and logs.Newport, WA
- Aug 27, 1908A Lumber Company Gives the Catholics a Block—With a One-Year DeadlineThe Panhandle Lumber Co. deeds a logged-over city block at Warren and First to the Jesuit society, provided it is used for a church and a building rises within a year.Newport, WA
- Sep 24, 1908West Bank Wins the RailroadIdaho & Washington Northern picks the west side of the Pend Oreille for its Metaline extension, promising Ione by late next year and a boom for the Calispel valley.Newport, WA
- Nov 5, 1908The Hook Slipped: A Scaler Killed Two Miles From NewportJames Wall, 50, was loading logs for the Panhandle Lumber Co. when a heavy log fell and fractured his skull. He lived only five minutes.Newport, WA
- Dec 3, 1908Eighty Men, a Night Crew, and a Forest of Logs: Newport's Timber Boom in Full SwingNew rail spurs and new mills put scores of men to work across the Pend Oreille country — until the cold snap and the frozen lake threaten to slow the saws.Newport, WA
- Jul 15, 1909Steel on the Grade: The I.W.N. Pushes North From UskTwelve carloads of steel arrived in Newport this week as the Idaho & Washington Northern extension resumed tracklaying, with a new station open at Usk and a tunnel still to finish at Blueslide.Usk, WA
- Jul 22, 1909A New Church on the Hill—and a Promise of School and HospitalSt. Anthony’s Catholic Church was dedicated on July 18, 1909, drawing Catholics and Protestants alike to a new frame house of worship at First and Warren.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 19, 1909No Way to Head It OffA forest fire on the west bank of the Pend Oreille has outrun every crew sent against it. It will burn to the river, the reports say, and cover most of the country between Ruby and Blueslide — and when Newport called for men, none could be found.Ruby, 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
- Nov 4, 1909Ione Wants to Incorporate — Unless the Sawmill Has to JoinResidents pushed for town incorporation, but the Panhandle Lumber Co. and neighboring landowners balked at being included; the saloon question hovered over the whole fight.Ione, WA
- Nov 11, 1909The Worn-Out Tongs That Killed a Newport Log ScalerJames Wall was loading logs for the Panhandle Lumber Co. when a falling log struck him dead. His family’s $50,000 suit against the Idaho & Washington Northern ended with a $5,000 verdict — and a defense that blamed Wall for standing in danger.Newport, WA
- Apr 7, 1910Fourteen Sections of Timber and Twenty Miles of TrackThe Panhandle Lumber Co. laid plans for a logging railroad up the Diamond Lake road from the wye west of Newport — six miles this summer, twenty in the end, and maybe a permanent line clear through to Spokane.Newport, WA
- Apr 21, 1910The Ione Mill Dam Gave Way, Taking Half a Million Feet of Logs With ItA Tuesday afternoon break at the Panhandle Lumber Co. dam sent a 35-foot head of water through the canyon and delayed the mill for months.Ione, WA
- May 19, 1910State Inspector Calls the Idaho Washington Northern the Best Railroad in WashingtonAfter a complaint about dangerous track north of Newport, a state inspector rode the line and pronounced it first-rate — and praised the railroad commission as a bargain for taxpayers.Newport, WA
- Jun 30, 1910The Railroad Wants the County Road — and Newport's Businessmen Sign OnPanhandle Lumber's proposed logging railroad would require the county to vacate a public road up a gulch west of town; practically every businessman in Newport petitions to hand it over.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 14, 1910One Landowner's $1,000 Demand Stalls a $200,000 Logging RoadThe Panhandle Lumber Co. may abandon its Newport-area logging railroad because a five-acre property owner wants $1,000 in damages and the county won't vacate the old road until a substitute is built.Newport, WA