Capital journal., July 23, 1920, Industrial Edition, Image 4

FRIDAY, JULY 23.
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL.
EARS EQUR
jSToto Salem's Industrial Lines Grade In Importance,
And How Factory Payrolls Promote the
Many Interests of Both City and Country
According to the Commercial Club's Industrial Survey some of the principal groups of Sa
lem's Factories classify as follows :
xt t. r . Yearly Product Value.
Number .. Business ... A9nnnonoo
8 Fruit and Vegetable Canning and Dehydration - - b'"
Salem
Water,
Light &
UNSOLD PORTION
PREFERRED
4
9
4
17
Creamery and Condensing , R8'ftn
Printing and Publishing, Bookbinding 281 000.00
.oaKenes - - 1Sq kaa aa
Auto and Bicycle Repair Shops - ;n nnnnn
5 Iron and Sheet Metal Works
nun anil oueci, menu ii yjiau - to inn nn
Electric and Storage Battery Shops 4-"4UU'uu
'.'' $7,854,068.00
50
Totals
PAPER
MILL
STOCK
This mill is one' of the most modern paper mills in the
country, is equipped with high grade sulphite specialties,
such as glassine and greaseproof papers at present not
manufactured on the Pacific Coast as well as wrapping,
tissue and waxing papers. The mill buildings are about
completed, the machinery being erected, and the plant will
be in operation very shortly.
This preferred stock is cumulative from July 1, 1920,
pays 8 per cent per annum, dividends payable monthly;
none of the stock of this company either preferred or com
mon has been sold for less than par, $100 per share.
The ownership of the $600,000 common stock rests
largely with F. W. Leadbetter, the president, also president
of the California-Oregon Paper Mills with mill in Los
Angeles, and for 25 years a large stockholder and director
of the Camas, now the Crown-Willamette Paper company.
And the C. K. Spaulding Logging company, which owns a
saw niill adjoining the paper mill at Salem, and furnishes
the new mill with sawdust for fuel and the necessary wood
for the 50 tons of sulphite daily made in the sulphite mill.
Mr. C. K. Spaulding, the president of the logging company,
being vice-president of the paper mill, and the fact that
Mr. Spaulding and Mr. Leadbetter each own one-half of
the Spaulding Logging company, which in turn owns nearly
one billion feet of timber with its own logging roads, assures
the pew paper mill of its raw materials without the great
expenditure for timber usually necessary to supply a great
paper mill enterprise.
These two interests combined with the heavy holdings
of the local Salem stockholders, and Mr. E. S. Collins and
the Ladd estate of Portland, comprise the ownership of
these mills and makes of this plant a distinctive. Oregon
corporation, designed, owned and operated by Oregonians.
For detailed information apply to
OREGON PULP
AND PAPER CO.
f . SALEM, OREGON
There are 46 other establishments that unittedly represent yearly business of $6,159,482.
Snmo nf these linefs are as follows : One bier sawmill and logging company ; 1 large paper mill,
to commence operations about August 20; Extensive heat, Jignt ana power piani; x mS wumcu
mill; 1 steam and 3 hand laundries ; 2 dyers and cleaners; 2 gravel-working establishments; I
umrw 1 fnnnprv: 1 Aneora goat rug factory; 1 canvas
glove factory ; 2 slaughtering and meat-packing houses ;
repairing, general wood-working, and various others.
1 vulcanizing shop; Tailoring, shoe
We offer the unsold portion of the
$600,000 issue cumulative 8 per cent
Preferred Stock of the Oregon Pulp &
Paper Company, Salem, Oregon.
Salem's Great Fruit Industries
It will be seen by the foregoing summary that about 44 per cent of the Industrial Products of Sa
lem consists nf Frtiit. anri Veet.ahle f!annincr and Dehvdration or drying.
While not so classified, lumber and logging come 2nd; paper manufacture will be 3rd; slaugh
tering and meat packing fourth; creamery and condensing tilth; publishing, printing ana dook
binding sixth, the bakeries seventh and iron and foundry work eighth.
These graduations are on the basis of Value of Annual Products, at 1919-1920 prices.
It is not improbable that the fruit and vegetable canning and dehydration of the same products
will represent fifty per cent of the city's industrial yield within a year or two.
The Advantages and Disadvantages
At first thought it might seem that such fruit and vegetable preservation is not the most desir
able form of manufacturing for Salem. Such in dustries supply employment to a large number of
persons, but in the main from four to seven months only. The dehydration operations continue tor
ten months.
The hands are thus out of these lines of employment from 2 to 8 months each year, and sustain a
large loss of earnings-compared with yearly time. The economic disadvantage of this situation can
not be denied as far as the workers are concerned.
But. from the standpoint of the growers and the city, the view is very different. Those fruit and
vegetable preserving works not only provide a great market for products of the land that would not
otherwise exist, but they disburse big sums of money among the growers that multiplies their Buy
ing Power from the cities and towns.
Salem Manufacures Home Yields
This business both diversifies the agricultural crops, and provides use for the land in this region
in a manner that realizes the largest returns of both crops and monev.
By a glance at the lines named at the head of this article, it will be noticed that they include almost
every growth native to this section. Salem has one or more factories for each of its successful crops.
That is an ideal plan, and leads to the best economic reciprocity. This will be true more effect
ively as baiem grows in tactory importance. The farms and forests will supply most of the mater
ials, and find a general market here with the least, loss from transportation and marketing.
On the other hand the farms will gain in Buying Power ,and receive many lines of manufacture
direct trom the works. The more completely this can be realized, the better will be the mutural re
lation between city and country.
Payrolls the Life of Progress
Payrolls, of course, are the big leverage for both citv and countrv. Thev mean bnvino- nnwer in
close proportion to the factory disbursements.
balem s industries will soon be paying out $2,000,000 yearly for labor alone. Each additional
i.uou persons empioyea win represent. approximately an added million to the city's pay checks.
With a $2,000,000 yearly payroll disbursement the monthlv averao-e will he $i rr RR7 q finn
lot of new commercial vitality that pours into every line of business in this city and section, inspires
and promotes progress, continually and increasingly Besides the payrolls, great sums are paid for
raw materials.
And as long as the factories grow and prosper,; the city MUST expand. It will HAVE to build
homes, business houses, other factories, make general imnrnvements.
Its vital interest lies in helping the factories to come and expand, and then itself try and keep up
with the Progress Procession.
But, both cities and factories are only EFFECTS of impelling CAUSES. Those Causes the
uanus, mat, is, tne r arms, a orests ana Mines will be considered in the following studies.
Mitiimnim nt
Automobiles
Franklin and Studebaker Cars ready for delivery.
Trucks
PACKARD, WHITE AND OLDSMOBILE TRUCKS.
HMMf,
A full line of
United States, Goodrich&fFtsk
Tires and Tubes
Always in Stock
Accessories Parts ExpertjRepairing
USED CARS
TV P, wcr 8,1 &n, in ""ange on new cars and have been thoroughly over
hauled. It will pay you to look at our stock. murougnij over-
,!WE NEVER CLOSE
Marion Automobile Company
233 South Commercial Street
Thone 362
p
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Co.
The Salem Water, Light & Power
Company is engaged in furnishing
water to the city of Salem, the capital
of the state of Oregon, a city covering
an area of five and a half square miles.
This water plant is the largest priv
ately owned water plant in the state of
Oregon.
It has 75 miles of water mains laid in
the streets of Salem, 31 miles of which
are under permanent hard surface
pacvement.
It has installed at its pumping sta
tion the largest vertical triplex pump
on the Pacific coast, made expressly for
it by the Geo. E. Dpw Pump Works of
ban Francisco.
It has a two-stage electrically driven
10-inch centrifugal pump, which is a
model of its kind and is the last word
in centrifugal pumps. In 24 hours this
pump forces 3,250,000 gallons of water
to an elevation or 230 feet
It has ordered a new DeLaval contri-
fugal pump which may be driven by
water, steam or electric power and
which is to be installed this summer.
The capacity of this pump will be three
mmion gallons in 24 hours
It has a Dow steam 'duplex pump
which has a capacity of 1,250,000 gal
lons in 24 hours.
It has three kinds of power installed
for driving its mimns. viz: 150 H. P
water power, 150 H. P. steam power.
ana iwti. f. electric power.
It takes iha ntnttr dinnl 4mm n r.rib
or well built in a sand and gravel bar
situated in the Willamette river above
the city. This bar serves as a filter
through which all of fhe water has to
pass before entering the distributing
mains of the plant.
The first pump of the Salem Water
Co. was set in place and started on
October 21, 1871, by Mr. W. F. Boothby
From that time this company has ser
ved the public conscientiously to the
best of its ability.
It is our ambition to make our plant
a model of efficiency and by courtesy
and good service to earn and keep the
good will of the people of Salem.
SALEM WATER, LIGHT & POWER
COMPANY
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