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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1921)
. : . - - TIIE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON . - .. -. , . . - . , . ' I - - , . .; ' . . , . " J ' 1 Salem's Big Paper MiD, One of Our Most Important St&ntly Growing, md -WilKKeep on Growing jforTal I PfV, ' ! The laper mill occupies all the c space between Trad street and South .-Mill, creek, from South Commercial ... street west . to the t Jiank of the Willamette river. The I three-story t part shown In the I front hs not yet been built. - That Ntpace Is now occupied partly by a I I temporary office building. When I 4hat part Is constructed, It will 3 1 IE Nil IRE PIPE? Mill 10 10 IE 111! IT , V ..'- "'- ' ' " .i . - ' - ' 1 The Men Who Had the Vision But Are No Visionaries, IV , Maior F. W. Leadbetter Who Planned Long for JOe Kaster, Who Knows 5 - i. ; , Up, and Is on the Job .Major F, W. Leadbetter and Charles K, Spauldins are lhe moving spirits" in and' among the largest' stockholders of the tora pany . qwning : andr operating the j paper mill In Salem. - - i; Major Leadbetter"" has for, drer quarter, of a century, been en ( gaged In paper mills. " He Is a practical paper mill man in every i department. lie is a stockholder pt the Crown-Willamette - com ?pany, owning paper mills at Ore gon City; Camas, Wash., and. in California. "... ,t ;. i. -$. a : He is president of the Calif or-.ftla-Oregon Tissue mills of Los ; Angeles.- -,y f Vj He is interested In other com f. panics operating paper mills, 'and j Jie is one ot'the outstanding or ' S,antiers and operators on the Pa cific .coast, in different lines' of Manufacturing and business. 1 Major Leadbetter's home is in rPortland; but be has said many times that he thinks a great deal f Salem, and then is no doubt that he will become a constantly "larger factor, in the upbuilding of 'this city. , i Charles K. Spaulding has tor years been engaged In supplying julp wood to the paper mills ot 'i &un , V..HJ . ic is isu one vl me ii wnyui luuiuti uta oi mis Section, and his interests in this i fjeid are constantly growing. " For . l .VA;WMJ ' -' . a 1 ions nuia " uiu - ueen am . Htlous to Rive Salem a paper mill, and new bis ambitions. in this line -are feeing realised in good meas nre. . The writer predicts that ih will not be atWicd witli even! : z ft 3 mi contain the offices of the company, as well as additional space for ma chinery and for other uses. Excepting foe. that part, all the rest of the buildings shown in the picture have been erected. Next behind the office is the main ma chinery room, showing in the pic ture two stories, with a high foun dation.. Back of that, showing BEHIND IE SALEM and Chas. K. Soauldinq, It The Superintendent Is Paper Mills from the Ground Every Minute. this splendid accomplishment, bat tnat he will be found further in- 8trumental in adding to the in dustrial activities of Salem, which in his home town, where, on Court street; opposite the cap! tol, he has one ot the most com fortable residences in the capital city. Joe Kastner, superintendent Of the mill, is one of the mont thorough paper mill men in the whole country. He knows every detail of paper making.' and he is on the Job night and day There Is not a single department or process he do$s not under stand, and he has a constant ov ersight of the smallest details of the running of the plant,-as well as the successful operation of the whole system. Mr. Kaster owns his own home in Salem In the Sunuyside addition. . Carl P. Nehren Is the sales manager. He is an experienced man in this department of parer mill operation, and bs is a Sa lem booster. Harry Jones, who has also be come a Salem home ' owner. Is superintendent ot construction, as he. has been from the start."' . F. D. Kibbe Is office manager and head bookkeeper. f J. E. Jones is paymaster, and O. Lundqulst is clerk. - -' .Grant Holt Is ' the buyer of pulp wood. There is a toretnan In, every department of the 43a tern .paver mill: all men with exDertcnce In the lines over which they have control. . f . ' , EXPLAINING, IN BRIEF, THE ABOVE PICTURE OF. SALEM'S NEW, PAPER three stories, are the beater tooms. Then comes the Oregon Electric track, running onto Front street and Trade street from Front to the Willamette river has been vacated in order to give room for the boiler. room, shown in the rear, and other buildings, including the connections between the plants of the Chas. K. Spauld ing Logging Co. and the paper THE MOVING SPIRITS IN M X I"- .i- r-Af MAJOB F, W, LEADBFTTKU HISTORICAL BRIEFS C01ICE11 THE MIL 1 The First Pick Was Stuck 1919, and the First Shipment of Paper Was Sixteen Months Later There Has Been Construction Work Going on Ever Since, and More Is Being Planned for a Long Time in the Future. - The first pick was stuck inthe ground, beginning the construe-j Hon work of the Salem naner mill, on June 1, 1919. : Weeks on end were consumed In the excavati6ns for the founda tions, and In building with rein forced concrete from the hard pan UP ; for paper mill machinery is heavy, and the superstructure mnrt rest on the' rock; or what Is better than rock. The first paper was turned out 1 mill plant, for conveying saw dust and other fuel, etc. In the ex treme rear of the paper mill plant the reader will see shown the saw dust and fuel warehouses, the acid towers, the sulphite mill, and, right down at the river's bank, the wood rooms and warehouses, where the pulp wood is barked and chipped and ground ready for the "cooking" process. Over to THE SALEM PAPER MILL CHAS. K. SPAVLDIXG. s ws in the Ground June First,, on September 10 of the following year; a few rolls of print paper as i a try-out. The Statesman of a year ago tomorrow was printed on this first paper turned out. The first car load of pa nor was shipped from the mill on Septem ber 30, 1920; a year ago tomor row. It Is a long time to wait from June 1. 1919, to September 30, 1920. for the money to begin to come the other way. All the In . -. . .y.'..-.-:v: ft A.- . the north of the paper mill plant, f rein Front street to the river, and for several blocks down the river, north, are the dry kilns, sawmill, office,' box factory, sash and door factory, lumber yards, etc., of the Chas. K. SpauWing Logging Co. Railroad tracks run along side ot and into those plants. Down Trade street, from Commercial, clear to the river's bank, between the vari tervening days and weeks and mouths the money had been poured out in a constant stream for labor and materials and ma chinery and freights in jbullding and assembling the great plant. It ran to a point around a million and a half dollars. The Btream turned the other way, it has been constantly in creasing. If it has not already reachad that point, it will be $10,. 000 a day; then it will be $20. 000 a day, and more, expended mostly in and around Salem, for labor, pulp wood, etc. But the substantial rewards for the common stockholders, for the men who dreamed and . planned and put in the first money, are iikely yet some distance in the fu ture for there has been no time when some Improvements have not been under way. and more and more needed and planned. And this condition will persist for a long time to come. Mountains of Materials The Statesman of a year ago to morrow said: The reader will be able to sense the bigness of th under taking of the men behind the Oregon Pulp and Paper Co., per haps more comprehensively than In any other way, by reducing to terms of car loads the materials that have rone into the build ings and the machinery that lias been installed. Thus considered, the following Is the picture: Cement, 51 cars. Lumber, 60 cars. Sand and gravel, 114 cars. Steel, li cars. Motors, 5car.i. Paint, i c&r. rick, 5 cars. Pipe and fittings, 4 cars. Paper machine, 17 cars. Other machinery, 60 cars. In all, 32S cars; 6. train. loadJ; or three miles of cars. Many Improvements Since the . above was written, additions and improvements have been constant. A second paper making machine has been added; there were 60 electric motors at first. There are 89 now, from one tnd a half horse power to 400 horse power. There Is no waste power, it au tne motors were run ning at one time, they would be using 3000 to 4000 horse power. But each' one runs only as its power U needed. This Is the mod. ern. economical way. The watrr power, ot South MUl creek, run. TOURSDAY MORNING. fnr1iicfaiAc IHIoe Roan (fOTrn- rora1 LonglTime inl the Future1 fifl i fffff f A, ' A.-,: :::,.-f.-.-fV f. ::f ous buildings of the paper mill plant, the Southern Pacific rail road company has its track; a double track west of the line of Front street. The steel wagon bridge across the Willamette river is shown in the rear and the Southern Pacific railroad bridge is just below. A steamboat is shown in the Willamette river. So these great concerns have both ning along the south side of the mill, has been harnessed in mod ern fashion, and It gives 350 hors! poller. Later, as mentioned else where, the North Mill creek pow er will be harnessed, and it is estimated that this will give over 1000 additional norse power. The balance of the power is furnished by the Portland Railway, Light & Power company. All the power Jlows In like branch streams into a main river; the "steps" ar ranged mechanically, and showing on the great mam switch board. The more power of its own the company develops, the lees it will have to buy. Mention is made elsewhere of a number of improvements, mak ing for economy, greater effi ciency and greater safety. The sulphite and raw materials end of the paper mill, below the line of Front street, has sufficient capacity to keep going two ma chines now running and the tvro planned for in tho future. The Statesman of a year ago tomorrow sid: "Joe Kaster, the superinten dent, who-has spent all his active lite In making paper, is at last in his element. He has been with the construction work from the be ginning. It has been a long, tedious, worrisome wait, with a million details to look after; and it is a great satisfaction to htm to see the wheels moving In or dfr and the beginning of the flow of checks and drafts ready to come back; and for a product that really fills a long fet want in this territory. Now our fnits and vegetables and other finished products will go out to the world's markets In wrappers and containers that are made at home, by laborers who will spend their money at home." Captain Harry Hansen Portland Matchmaker PORTLAND. Sept. 28. Cap tain Harry Hansen was today chosen matchmaker ot the Port land Boxing commission. The commission decided to hold the first boxing exhibition the night of October 12. Captain Hansen served overseas In the World war. i-'j. ( Classified Ads. In The Statesman Bring Results SEPTEMBER 29. 121 -" - i MILL water and rail connections, right to their doors and through their plants.. To the south, across Mill creek, : the company owning the paper mill has a considerable acre age of vacant property; i.vallable for extensions. And they also have -the North Mill creek water power, plans for the development of rhich are now under vay, and some thirty acres more of land IE SALEM m MILL 151 Ml- OLD AND HIS II It Is Now Employing 150 Men in the Mill, to Say Nothing of the Forces, in the Timber Chopping Wood and De livering It to the Mill There Are.:.Constaritlllm- provements Being Made, and More Are Contemplated An Almost Exclusive Field for a Large Part of the Product. The Salem paper mill has been in full operation for a year. Tfco first car of pajer for the uar ketr was shipped from this plant a year ago tomorrow. Tha States man of a year ago tomcirow was printed from paper maj, at this mill from a :rll run on wood pulp secured iroin om of the Ofgon City n'llls. (The output of ue Salem mill Is cor fined to t!se Eulphita : recess, tiongh it is expected thai m' the course of :irr.c news ;.il will in turned oit Lere fr-n wood pulp.- a dif ferent proc-sf. fcr the preparation of the wood: the wood pulp be ing ground w'lb grinders.1 "Jhiee ei?nt-hour shifts a day are employed iu the Salem mill; Z4 Lours a i .y. six days in the jpee'n. All tt'.J available machin ery 2s. kept in full operation, and tnere Is a roietant ;, Increase In the output, through the installa tion ot new fl:..chinery and appll f.nces and the better woik'ng of all departments. , A Very Fine Parr Mill. Tte plant o! the Oregon , Pulp & Ptper company;-owning and rperating the Salem paper; mill, it ere of th3 roost mod. rc and bct equipped of Its kiul la the country. - ? . . t- - Jts main paier-jnachliio was at the time of its turctasg the rery Ust word in i a per making eluip mant. and. in th words of its builders, th .fcremost pap.' ma .!;'n. :y nou t,be, woiid. VH 13 s far ahead of kny thing built up to the present ime, that other manufacturers could afford to scrap their present machines cost 3 OREGON, "'-:. t-V'.-. . . - Xva v. -v' ' . ,.' t 1 i -t t along thai creek suitable for still further extensions, and the s'or-j. age ot pulp wood. etc. It Is not In the nature of western development, and growth, nor in the nature o4 the men behind these great enter prices, that- a single foot' of all these available sites,' or a slngli pound of the undeveloped water power, will be left. unused m Vk VERY LUSTY 111 ing into hundreds of . thousands of dollars and put In machines of this kind and effect a saving on tbeir total investment The reason lor this fact In that the "clothing coat, andjT power consumption. Is fednced : so ma terially that the cost of operation '. Is enough lower' to pay a hand- some dividend cn th Jncreaaed investment. ' ; ; ;v' ,, The machine clothing consists of several endless woolen" felt . blankets which cost Into the hun dreds of dollars each, dryer felts made of a woolen blanket one-" half inch thick, and endless bronze wire mesh eloth. This wire Is 11 feet wide and- from -JO to 75 feet., long, and in these days ot high prices the cost Is very heavy. - The machine is so built that all i rolls and bearings that are moved by these felts or wire are boused by the finest ot imported ball . bearings and the pull or -friction on the clothing is reduced so that their life Is nearly doubled. 'Often " a felt subjected to hard service lasts but a fev days, and. wires. sometimes last only a week or two. -Added to the cost ot the , clothing is the loss of production while the clothing is being Changed. ; " , ; , ) ' Ha IJUIe CompeiitioH. : This mill has little competition ' In several ot the classes of paper it manufactures, as all paper Ot these kinds is shipped from the eastern or lake states. - The class . of products turned out are known as specialties, and (Continued on page 4 X m Of 8. r- or a : 19 ! I- la i-id fa . c u a t t T ', . i