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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1919)
jitiDAV, ii:ci:miu:ii an, iimd THE EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE THBJtfc- M' THE PALACE MARKET BY SPECIAL REQUEST from many of our customers, we will select from our feed yards three more Prize Beeves. These wiM be hung in our Palace Mar ket Saturday morning and will remain there on exhibition until New Year's eve. See card in our window for further details. - :: ,.. The Xmas Prize Beeves which we have had on exhibition in our Palace Market will be cut up and SOLD TO OUR REGULAR TRADE . r ', i es k .tfri C f BE SURE AND SEE CARD IN OUR WINDOW: There are very few select turkeys to be had for your New Year's dinner, but what is nicer than a fine Baked or Boiled Ham? Wholesale prices to the trade until New Year's Eve on HAM, BACON and LARD, Eastern or our own cure: Hams, whole or half 39c Fancy Bacon, by the side -42c No. 10s of our own Rendered Lard , $2.85 V No. 5s of our own Rendered Lard $1.45 r jy?i , r?. ,- . 4K THE PALACE MARKET Site -'mm :aJ n I 11 GIVES SPACE TO HDUSTRY Tho American Lumberman of Do combor 13 contains an Interesting story of tho development of tho lum ber industry In Klamath county, un der tho head, "South Oregon Lumbor Center Very Active." Tho nrticlo is well lllustratod with mill and forest sconos and covers two full pages In the original publication. Tho text Is reprinted in full. , , . There is a great and wondorful tlmbor country tributnry to Klamath Kalis. In fact tho great Klamath re gion, as tho torrltory tributary to Klamath Falls is termed, Is various ly cstlmnted to havo from twonty billion to thirty billion foot of staud lil. Pine timbor, largoly California whito plno, with some sugar plno and a llttlo fir, that will bo manu factured Into lumbor and boxes olth e at Klamath Falls or near by, and for which lumber concorns this city will bo tho supply center. So this thriving community of six or sovon thousand Inhabitants, bocauso of tho scon to bo dovoloped lumbor indust rj , will grow Into a largo Inland con tor, thru tho intluonco of its lumbor business nlono, to say nothing of tho groat incroaso In Its farming as a Jesuit of Irrigation, draining and dlk irg, much of which work is being dono by the government. Hero, for many years boforo tho advent of tho railroad, tho town lot promoter and tho lumberman, was a busy cattle town on tho banks of lit tle Lake Ewauna, readied by nearly a hundred miles or stage ride, and tho cow puncher ruled supremo. Tho Weed Lumbor Co., of Weed Calif., oxtonded its logging railroad thirty miles or so In tho direction of Klam nth Falls and finally tho Southern Pacific, in tho dajs of E. II. Harri man, took over tho logging road, ox tonded it to this city, 87 mllos from Weod, and then on tho north forty or fifty mllos with tho Idea of going thru tho Cascado Mountains and con necting with tho main lino of the road nt tho end of tho oxtenslon run ning from Eugene to Natron, Ore., and beyond, this making tho lino thru Klamath Falls the main lino betwoon Portland and San Francis co. Mr. Harrimnn lovod tho Klamath country and on tho western shoro of tho upper Klamath Lnko, whoro tho bin trout jump out ot purling for ties and tho whito pollcnns by tho hun dreds dot tho surface of tho water, ho buflt HoTriman Lodge, his sum- I mor homo. Tho great railroad man died, advorso leglsiotion rosinciou tho railroad from oxtpndlng, then tho world war bogan and tho con nection botwoon tho two ends of tho proposed main lino was nover made. For sovoral years past nnothor rall load buildor, Uobort Strahorn, has boon ondoavorlng to connect Klam ath Falls, Bend, Lnkovlow and othor points In tho grent oafitom Oregon omplro by rallrond niK1 already has tho road built somo distance out of Klumnth Falls to tho oast and north, nottor times aro ahead for tho om plro builders, tho men with gront Ideas, and It will not bo long boforo some of these things that aro need ed will be done. Timber will be open- directing genius of the Pelican Bay ed up, mills will be built, and here in Lumber Co., was the first to havo a Klamath Falls will be the center for islon of the possibilities of this sec it all, for in this region, Including Hon, when he built the first plant Forest Service timber, Klamath In dian reservation timber and that pri vately owned, there Is without doubt tho largest romaining stand of pine timber In this country. Already eastern and southern ope rators are looking in this direction for timbor supply to extend the life of their operations. Tho Long-Bell Lumber Co., of Kansas City, a year or so ago acquired a billion or more feet, towards which tho Strahorn railroad Is heading, not far from hero. It Is owned by tho Long-Bell Whito Plno Co. and will be manufac tured either in the timber or here. Theso Interests aro tho largest own ers of and control tho Weed Lumbor Co., at Weel. Recently tho W. R. Pickering Lumbor Co., St. Louis, largo southorn pine operator, pur chased a tract of a billion fee of plno in northern California and southern Oregon extending up to tho Pitt River on the west sldo of the uppor lake, and some day there will bo mills either hero or in tho timbor to manufacture It Into lumbor. Theso pro moroly advance Indications of what Is In storo for the Klamath re gion ns a lumbor producing section In tho near future Rebuilding Big Plant. Tho ploneor lumbor manufactur ing concorn of largo slzo and In fact tho largest operator In tho region Is tho Pelican Bay Lumbor Co., of Kla math Falls, whoso plant Is Just north of tho city nonr tho lower end of tho uppor lako, at what Is com monly spokon of as Pelican City. Harold D, Mortenson, president andy0ars ag0 of tho company horo six or seven years ago. It was destroyed by fire about four years ago und. rebuilt on a larger scale, and on Sept. 19 last the new sawmill only was burned. The planing mill, sheds, yard etc. were saved, and a fine new sawmill, to tako the place of the one burned, will be ready for operation early next spring. The sawmill had been running two shifts since it started In April and was turning out about 315,000 feet every two shifts and would have cut CO, 000,000 feet for the season, as It was planned to put In a hot pond so tbat the mill could have been operat ed thru much of the winter. Last year Its cut was 49,000,000 feet. Tho planing mill equipment was augu mented by an S. A. Woods Machine Co., 15-Inch fast feed molding mach ine not long ago. Under the supervision of James C. Johnston, who has been with the Pe lican Bay Lumber Co., since It start ed, thirty-four cars of logs a day wore being brought down over tho company's own logging road extend Inr 'twolvo and a half miles north west from Kirk, tho end of tho South ern Pacific's extonslon to the north. Tho logs from Its operations on tho west sldo of the uppor lako aro tow oil across to tho mill. H. W. Bridge ford is secretary of tho Pelican Bay Lumber Co. and W. O. Kahman sales irnnagor. Ho was for years with the McCloud River Lumber Co., at Mc Cloud, Calif., before going with the Pollcan Bay Lumber Co. a couple of Klamath Falls a Center of Box Industry During the last rew years Klamath Falls has grown to be the center of a large box manufacturing Industry, as it also has become a lumber cen ter, and the prospects for further de velopment are very great In both theso lines. There are three large box factories in Klamath Falls now and their capacity Is being gradually increased. The Ewauna Box Co. is the largest, having a capacity of 120, 000 feet In eight hours, and last sum mer ran two shifts most of the time. C B. Crisler, president ot the com pany, is a former mayor of Klamath Falls. Associated with him are Claude Daggett and Fred Schallock. It has just been announced that this con cern will build a sawmill, to be in operation early next spring. During the present season the Big Lakes Box Co. which operates the former Savldgo Bros. Lumber Co. plant, has gradually increased its ca pacity, which is now nearly 120,000 feet a day when running two 8-hour shifts, altho early In the fall the night shift is taken off. Since last May this plant has been run by elec tricity. M. E. West is president of tho company; Ward A. Dwight, vice president; B. W. Mason, secretary and Treasurer; and A. J Voyo, man ager. Mr. West is manager of the Big Basin Lumber Co , a retail lumber concern at Klamath Falls, which ho ha3 had charge of for a nunbor of years. It Is ownod by tho Weed Lum ber Co., Weed, Calif. Mr. Dwight is a wholesaler of boxes in tho Nowhnll Building, San Francisco. Mr. Voyo has had years of experience as a box man, having been with the O. A. Smith Lumber Co., Bay Point, Calif; and also with the Klamath Manufac turing Co., Klamath Falls. His con cern. Mr. Voye states, is shipping considerable box shooks east, includ ing milk cases and cannery cases. The Chelsea Box & Lumber Co Is ono of the newer concerns with a plant at the southern end of Lake Ewauna, on tho outskirts of Klam ath Falls. Recently it bought some property alongside of this plant to permit of Its increasing the size of its operations. J. U. Miner, president of the company, has been engaged in the timber business at Klamath Fall3 tor some years. Associated with him are C. F. Setzer and N. E. McClory. The plant has an 8-hour day capacity o 60,000 feet at present. Largo Box Manufacturers At the office of the Klamath Manu facturing Co., out at Shippington, a3 the industrial community at the low- or end of tho upper lake used to bo called, the private office ot the lato Lleut.-Col. Robert A. Johnson, pre sident of the company, remains Just aa it was when he left it two years ago this fall to go to Franco with the 20th Engineers. On the flat top ped mahogany desk there roposes a vase ot flowers kept fresh dally by his associates In the Klamath Manu facturing Co., who thought so much of htm. His death last June, several months aftor his return from Franco was a distinct loss to tho lumber and box manufacturing industry of the Klamath country. Tho company's operations conttn- AD LUMBER ORGAN ue as in tho past with Ous Krause, secretary and sales manager, in charge of its office and financial af- (Contlnued on page 8) i H I Mi 5 r a v a ) - ! t K 'rr