|
Newspaper Clippings
Bella Coola Courier
1914
June 6
Gus Swanberg left [Bella Coola] last Sunday for OF where he intends
working on a large boom of logs.
July 25
Fred Anderson came up [to Bella Coola] from OF on Tuesday night and is
at present taking the rest cure in the town.
Phil Williams and B. Davidson arrived in town [Bella Coola] from OF on
Tuesday night on the power boat Stering D. The purpose of their visit
was to get more men for the work of booming the logs at OF. In this they
were successful and left about midnight taking with them Jack Jackson,
John Nelson and J.H. Langill. Already several rafts of logs have been
dispatched to mills at Swanson Bay, Vancouver and New Westminster.
August 8
The remains of a leg encased in a cruisers high boot found by a
fisherman on the beach close to the mount of the Salmon River at
Kimsquit has been identified as belonging to E.S. Bennet who met his
death by drowning in the Salmon River on 4-July-1913.
November 14
M. Smaby of Ocean Falls came up on Wednesday [to Bella Coola] and stayed
over for a day. He was on his way to South Bentinck Arm to look over the
camp and timber limits of the Ocean Falls Co.
Mr. Smaby informs us that all the logs that were on hand at the time the
large mills ceased operation amounting to something like ten million
feet have been disposed of. Large quantities of cedar and fir logs were
sent to mills in Washington. The hemlock and spruce went mostly to
Powell River to be used in the manufacture of paper.
G.G. Davis, the originator of construction of ocean going rafts has been
at Ocean Falls in charge of the work of despatching logs to their
destination. These ocean going rafts are constructed 100 feet in length,
70 feet wide 16 feet deep and are bound together to stand any kind of
sea. The work of getting the logs away from Ocean Falls was managed with
splendid success and proves the immense advantage of the new method of
raft construction.
Vancouver Land District
District of the Coast - Range III Take notice that Mark Smaby of Ocean
Falls, BC, occupation timber cruiser, intends to apply for permission to
lease the following described land: Commencing at a post half a mile
south westerly from the head of a small inlet extending south from
Schooner Pass, on the north end of Price Island thence north 80 chains,
thence east 80 chains, thence south 80 chains, thence west 80 chains to
point of commencement, containing 640 acres, more or less. Mark Smaby
Dated November 10, 1914.
A similar notice appears for Emma C. Smaby, of Ocean Falls, married
woman, for land immediately south of that described above.
A similar notice appears for Philip Williams of Ocean Falls, farmer, for
land immediately to the west of the land described in Mark Smaby's
application.
A similar notice appears for Mary A. Williams of Ocean Falls, married
women, for land immediately south of that described in Philip Williams'
application.
Applications are also printed for Helge Smeby and Martin Smeby, farmers
of Gig Harbor, Wash. for land adjacent to the above lands.
In all cases the agent is Mark Smaby.
Nov 28
Ocean Falls Company Is Reorganized
Paper Making Plant to be Erected
Vancouver, Nov 24 - The big pulp and lumber plant of the Ocean Falls
Company at Ocean Falls, BC, 300 miles up the coast from Vancouver is
likely to resume operations again under the management of Messrs.
Fleishhacker and Johnston of San Francisco, who control a number of pulp
and paper mills on the Pacific coast. Messrs. Fleishhacker and Johnston,
who recently acquired the plant, pulp leases and other assets of the
company by purchase from the receiver, have formed a company called
"Pacific Mills Limited" with a share capital of $9,500,000 to acquire
and operate the concern. The company has been incorporated under the
laws of British Columbia, with head offices in Vancouver. After the
incorporation preliminaries are completed the question of recommencing
operations will be considered. It is stated that a paper making plant
will be added to the existing plant, and most of the pulp produced
turned into paper.
Back To Bella Coola Courier List
Ocean Falls Museum Is Looking For
Family Photos And Movies
To display Here on this site.
Each Contribution Will Be Displayed On A Page Named For That Family.
Please Don't Delay
Contact Us Today
|