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The Bureau Mill
The Bureau Mill
[To Dan, who requested information on the Bureau mill, I lost your
e-mail address during a computer crash, so I hope you find this
info. Larry]
Captain Charles Bureau, an apparent "interested party" in "The
Peoples Transportation Company" of Clatskanie, owned a mill located
on the Clatskanie River below the town of Clatskanie. Clues to the
location are given in a series of references given in "Local News"
columns of the newspapers of the day.
March 25, 1892
Clatskanie: The [road] supervisor has been having some needed work
done on the Marshland road. The bridge has been built around the
iron cylinder at Bureau's mill, and the logs have all been taken
out so that a horse can get through the entire distance from here
to Marshland.
August 19, 1892
Clatskanie: The shingle mill at Bureau's was running a part of this
week.
Aug 10, 1894
Clatskanie: Capt. Bureau expects to discard water as a motive power
for his mill and has been getting an engine and a boiler...
Jan 18, 1895
Clatskanie: The melting snow and heavy rains of the past week have
swelled the streams about here to enormous size. Fall Creek was a
raging torrent and washed out some of Salderns' bridges, also a
portion of the dam that furnished water for Capt. Bureau's mill and
near the mouth of the stream carried away the county bridge erected
some two years ago...
[Fall Creek is tributary to the Clatskanie river less than 1/2 mile
NW of the town of Clatskanie. The railroad crosses the Clatskanie
River very close to the same place.]
October 18, 1895
Clatskanie: A camp of surveyors on the proposed railroad route has
been located near Bureau's mill...
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