By Anne Keech
Title: Ernest Newsted Papers, 1948-1974
Predominant Dates: 1956-1969
ID: MSS Newsted
Primary Creator: Newsted, Ernest S.
Extent: 1.5 cubic feet. More info below.
Arrangement: The Ernest Newsted Papers are arranged in two series: 1: Logging Districts, 1948-1968; 2: Logging Equipment, 1950-1974
Languages of Materials: English [eng]
The Ernest Newsted Papers consists of materials assembled by Newsted, primarily documenting his years as a logging manager at Brooks-Scanlon in the 1950s and 1960s. The collection includes timber sale auction announcements, maps, correspondence, memos, blueprints, equipment brochures, photographs and drawings. Monthly operating reports from Newsted’s time at Blue Mountain Mills are also included.
The photographs include snapshots of logging operations and equipment. Maps in the collection are related to timber sales and road construction, mainly in areas within the Deschutes National Forest.
The Ernest Newsted Collection includes 108 maps, 111 photographs and 22 negatives. Many of the maps are fragile and several photographs are damaged.
Ernest Newsted (1909-2001) was born in Eureka, California and moved to Washington State, where he graduated from high school. In 1929, Newsted and Lenore Kaas were married. He was active in the Shriners, Masons, and with the International Executive Service Corps.
Newsted raised dairy cattle before beginning a career in logging on the Olympic Peninsula. In the mid-1950s, he became a logging superintendent with Brooks-Scanlon in Bend, Oregon. In his role, he managed logging operations, including evaluating the quality of timber, creating tree harvesting plans, and researching logging equipment purchases.
More Extent Information: 108 maps; 133 photographs; 2 boxes, including 1 oversize box, and 11 map folders
Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.
Acquisition Note: The Ernest Newsted Papers were transfered to the Special Collections and Archives Research Center in 2016 by the Oregon State University College of Forestry.
Related Materials: The Special Collections and Archives Research Center holdings include a variety of collections that document logging and forestry in Oregon, including the College of Forestry Records (RG 139), Oliver Matthews Collection (MSS Matthews), Jackson F. Kimball Collection (MSS Kimball), J. F. Ford Photographs (P 308) and C.D. Johnson Lumber Company Toledo Mill Collection (MSS JohnsonMill). The Harold Frosham Photographs (P 271) include images of the Brooks-Scanlan Lumber Company.
Preferred Citation: Ernest Newsted Papers (MSS Newsted), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
Processing Information: Several of the maps were encapsulated at the time this finding was prepared in 2017. There are about 35 additional maps in the collection that would benefit from encapsulation. The folders that include these items are noted on a list in the central file.
Newsted, Ernest S.
Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company
Logging--Machinery.
Logging--Oregon.
Lumbering--Machinery--Oregon.
Lumbering--Oregon.
Natural Resources
Timber--Oregon.
Maps (documents)
Photographic prints.
Contains documents regarding West Wickiup and Ketchketch Butte, North Lookout Mountain, Wuski Butte, East Siah Butte and Lemish-Benchmark Butte.
Includes 2 maps.
Contains maps of East Siah Butte, Lookout Mountain, Wuski Butte, Round Mountain, West Wickiup and Ketchketch Butte, West Sheridan Mountain, Wake Butte and Lemish-Benchmark Butte.
Includes 12 maps.
Contains maps of Warm River, Dorrance Meadow and Swede Ridge.
Includes 3 maps.
Contains documents regarding Prairie Farm, Crook County, Grant County and Harney County.
Includes 4 maps.
Contains documents regarding private road construction.
Includes 2 maps.
Contains maps of South Jack Lake, Black Butte, North Black Butte, Green Ridge, South Green Ridge and Dugout Lake.
Includes 12 maps.
Contains documents regarding Sink Creek and Canyon Creek.
Includes 2 maps.
Contains maps of Black Butte, Cache Lake, Cache Mountain, Pole Creek, Upper Pole Creek, Lookout Mountain, Trout Creek, Sink Creek, Round Lake, Polytop, Bulb Farm, Cold Springs, Sanitam, Mouth Creek, Metolius River, Quartz Mountain and Prineville, Fort Rock and Cinder Cone.
Includes 29 maps.
Contains maps of Bull Springs Tree Farm, Quartz Mountain, Browns Mountain, North Black Butte and Santiam-McKenzie.
Includes 5 maps.
Contains documents regarding Black Pine Springs, Cache Lake and West Sheridan Mountain.
Includes 4 maps.
Contains documents regarding Green Ridge.
Includes 1 map.
Contains maps of Cache Mountain, Cache Lake, McKenzie, Black Pine Springs, Cache Creek, Sisters and LaPine.
Includes 10 maps.
Includes documents regarding Swede Ridge and Sink Creek.
Includes 1 map.
Contains maps of Cache Lake, North Lookout Mountain, West Wickiup and Ketchketch Butte, Bend, West Sheridan Mountain, Round Mountain and East Siah Butte.
Includes 9 maps.
Contains maps of Aspen Butte and Long Butte and photographs of Paisley Mill.
Includes 5 maps and 3 photographs.
Contains maps of Quartz Mountain, Polytop, Browns Mountain, Aspen Butte and Fort Rock.
Includes 7 maps.
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