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GREATER- SAE.&M tilStltlCT NUMBER MARCH" 1923
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Af LS.tS SST' R fManftfattilne Crates and Cases for Shipping ContainersPlant5 Management
Highly, Efficient All Waste Utilized Output Has Been Rjrpidly Increasing to KeepPace th Larger Demands
j r The Chas. K. tlpauldlng Logging
' company m$ll is one of the oldest
f business : Institutions in., Salem;
' though not underits present name
1 ' which began la. A 9 05.... The.-old
mill was operated by . the Capital
' . Lumber company, from which Mr.
! iSpauldlng bought It IS years ago.
It doesn't look much like the game
old place, though the main mill
is larjply as it was; the yards and
the departments have been so
greatly extended, that not much
U recognizable as ot the old
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Because of the great and grow-
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"Old ones made like new" s
Floss, Halrr Cotton Beds and Wool Mattresses our
Specialty. "' t .
After a trial you will realize that we have no real
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Cushions Made to Order
: ' All Work Guaranteed
. " Phone us.' We will'call'and delivers Yours for service
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Capital City Bedding Co., ! Inc.
v D. POULIN, Presidents '..' W.' MUIXER; Sec.Treas.
SALEM
Phone 19
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ing demand for lumber, this year,
the .'company has Just recently
started in on a two-shift schedule
this brings the number of em
ployes up to about 325 in the Sa
lem plant. This is only a part of
the Spaulding activities, however,
they have another big mill at New
berg, that employes about 200
men, and their logging camps on
tho Grande Ronde employ 100
more. The Salem mill under the
present two-shift system will cut
about 2SO.000 feet daily.
The log Bupply comes by rail
from the Grande Ronde camps, in
the Coast Range west of Newberg?
The logs are dumped into the Wil
lamette at -Winona, three .miles
south and west of Salem, and are
towed 'over to the mill by the
company's .fuggy'- One of these tugs
was built here in Salem, last yeaf;
it is a craft 40 feet long, and Is
rated as an exceptionally capable
boat. The company also owns
the larger river steamer Grey Ea
gle, recently rebuilt here at Sa
lem after a service ipn -the" river
of almost 30 years. : m
The Installation of prates for
burning only "hog; fuel in the
Spaulding mills, marks the last
step in the complete utilization of
the log products. ; '
Not so very long ago, the dis
position of the sawdust from the
big mills was a serious, sometimes
almost' a desperate problem. Saw
dust' piles become a -constant fire
menace." But now it is all fed
into the boilers, and all the bark
wood, the waste, the irregular
pieces that were formerly sold un
der the classification of slabs, or
waste,- is run- through' the macer
ator or; "hog machine, which
chips it all into coarse sawdust
that with the sawdust from the
mills Is all usable for. mill fuel.
It- stops the dangerous' accumula
tion of sawdust,, and utilizes' the
very last speck of wood.' The slab
and waste trimmings that are now
marketed are clear, clean wood.
The waste , ofthe sawdust and
trimmings has been, a' matter for
concern ever; since conservation
ists began to '.develop;: nbw they
see nothing wasted',' and everybody
is "happy. . ';.?-i. ?
The magnitude- of. the box in
dustry, might surprise, fmany
Statesman ; readers. ;. I There is
perhaps but one larger tot fac
tory in Oregon; than" the 'Spauld
ing mill. - The latter was recently
fenlarged so as to have ft storage
capacity of B0. cars of slooka; now
that can do" the work. The com
pany does mill work;. interior-work
to the most elaborate specifica
tions, equal to anything on the
coast; counters, finishings . of
evjery kind made of wood, are
tuVned out from the well-eqUIpped
factory.
the mill can run the whole winter
through and store up a good sup-
pijt ior tue lriui season, . wou a 1 1
the factories run behind with their
orders..: j
Last year, the daily average of
the lumber used in the; box fac
tory was 33,832 feet; a total of
about; 8,000,000 feet of. 1 timber
was turned into boxes of every
kind. As many as 45 men have
been .employed at a time: the
yearly average is more than 30
men. and with the new machinery
and the greatly increased seorage
a larger force ;c an be used as
needed. i
There are thre& "standard" siz
es for canned goods cases, that
can be built with the certainty
that the. market needs.them: the
2s; 2H's, and the lO's made for
six cans to' the box. There are
many other kinds of more or less
standard boxes, such as cases for
condensed ' milk, of which the
Spaulding company has made
countless thousands; last year
they made 75,000 apple boxes, and
one order alone for 20,000 field
crates for picking loganberries.
The Japanese gardeners of Mar
ion county, out in the Lake Lab
ish section, bought 25,000 celery
crates; ' the broccoli growers
bought 35,000 crates. The smelt
fisheries at Kelso; up on the Cow
litz river where the terrible brldgev
disaster occurred a few weeks ago,
bought 51,000 boxes, each to hold
50 pounds of smelts for shipping.
These are but a few of the inter
esting market sources for Salem
made, botes.
All the box stock is of course
Oregon grown timber.- Much, hem
lock is used, and some white fir;
the hemlock makes a superior box,
light and tough. Spruce, "how
ever'. Is the box vtood for many
purposes, especially for butter,
eggs and other food products that
call for an odorless wood that' will
not taint' the contents.- All the
butter boxes for ; the standard
"cubes" that are quoted in the
market, are of spruce; 3 0-pound
and 60-pound sizes are standard.
The Spaulding sash' and-door
department has grown to be an
other great industry". ranking with
other separate factories in mag
nitude The company has work
ed steadily to, develop this higher
class' of manufactures, realizing
that every , dollar, that ' can be
spent for; turning : ray material
into finished product, s so much
permanent gain for the community
FLOUR MILL PROSPERS
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Cherry City Plant Prospers
During Year Just Passed
gon, for :the higher grade . table
flours; much' more' of: this, wheat
than is used of the local grain for
flour . purposfes." Occasionally; a,
car of .flour Is exported to the
Orient- or elsewhere by', water";
though mo'st -,of the Salem flour
product is sold within the state ofl
Oregon.
The" Cherry City mills have re-
The year 1922 has been one of
thebest in the history of the mill
ing industry of the Willamete val
ley.-. , The grain crops were not of
exceptional, or perhaps of even
average quantity; - but the , busi
ness of milling has grown al moat
daily in magnitude.
, This explains the reason' for" the
Cherry City Milling , company's
doubling' Its grinding plant, and
for building a large - warehouse
that is to be erected as soon as
possible. The mill has been fairly
swamped with orders; sometimes
It has taken a week or ten days to
fiU car.orders that should be filled
within: a day.
rne company is making a spe
cialty of stock foods, mixed scien
tlflcally, so as to meet specific
stock needs, i One of the secrets of
profitable stock raising, especial
ly dairying and poultry raising, is
the selection of proper foods. An
expert field man is maintained by
the Cherry City mills to study and
to demonstrate these stock foods'.
While It is not claimed that prop
er food selection will meet every
need of the stock grower and re
lieve from the' responsibility for
proper breeding jand care, the food
selection is vitally important;
Some truly astonishing results
have i been achieved, under ' the
same, care, by the substitution of
specialized stock foods for a less
sclenanc sysrenT or feeaingT
. All the' wheat raised in the val
ley is soft wheat ; It is used most
ly, f of the pastry flours, and the
residue goes into the various stock
foods, Hard wheat Is shipped in
from Montana. Idaho,' eastern O re
cently- adopted" a - carton service
fort all their' specialty- table prod
uctsfarina; pancake flour,, gra
haW1 and a long" line of cereaj.
These used to be put out in sacks;
which- " aVe easy to fill,' but are
far less sanitary, and less' desira
ble to handle either In the store
or in the home. The cartons will
be filled from the mill, increasing
the local payroll partly because
of- the certain larger demand for
the Improved packages. ; "
About 15 employe are" on the
Cherry City mill payroll -all
through' the year; sometimes he
number t is" considerably larger;
The company' does " a? business ot
more than half a million dollars a
year. :' . - eV ' . : j-.;-
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