Entered as second-clan matter August 4, 1922, at th* post office at Vernonia, Orego 1, under the Act of March 3, 1879
VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 18,
Volume 2, Number 49
1924
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MOUTHPIECE of the NEHALEM VALLEY
VERNONIA
PLANS
Advertising Medium of a Big Pay Roll Community
COLUMBIA COUNTY---------
BUILDING
-
Lodge,
Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner
Store and Office Structure
Will Go Up Soon
i
LUMBER COMPANY
HOST AT VERNONIA'
Plenty of power is thus supplied to
the mill at small expense.
Sawmill
Unit
Only
One Completed
Water is taken from the Nehalem
¡river and stored in the pond for the
'log-dump. The logs are brought to
¡the mill on disconnected trucks.
When the finished product comes
from the mill it will be placed in cars
and brought to Portland for the
market via the Spokane, Portland
A Seattle.line from Vernonia.
The sawmill unit of the plant, to­
gether with the sorting apparatus,
is the only one so far completed.
The other units will be ready for
use in a few weeks.
The trip to Vernonia, about 50
miles, was made in about two hours
the trip going taking longer be-
cause of the grade. Charles S. Keith
president, and Frank Schoflin, vice-
president of the O.-A. company, were
present to act as hosts and conduct
the party through the plant.—Ore­
gonian.
A NEW INOUSTRAL
CENTER FOR OREGON
VERNONIA, Or., July 12, — A
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stock corporation has just been orga­ Portlanders Sea First Logs Cut at
Veronnia, 50 Miles From Portland
Not a Hitch, Every Machine Perfect, itiea than Mr. Keith, who sees the wid I nized with local business men at its
$3,500,000 Plant
Offers Inducements to Home
er market that awaits Pacific North-1 head to build a modern lodge, store
Every Little Movement Has a
Seekers
west lumber than that from the di­ and office bnilding on a 60 by 100- m ACHINERY IS MARVEL
Meaning of It’s Own I
minishing southern belts. He will tell .foot site recently purchased from the I
She Runs
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you how the south itself is absorb­ I Bank of Vernonia between Third st. •
A new town that is forty years
Mill Operated Almost Entirely by
Vernonia is known and in print ing a large percentage of its own 'and Weed avenue on Bridge street in
old. The Heart of the Big Tim . er.
Electric Power Generated by
all over the United States today. lumber; he knows the percentages Vernonia.Practically all of the stock
Using
Water
as
Fuel
An industrial center. The fast g.jw-
Every Lumberman’s Journal and of western and southern timber con­ has been subscribed and construction
ing city that has gone from 200 to
Dally papers of every state carried sumed in the eastern und nothern will begin in August, according to of­
The brand new $3,500,000 plant of
2000 in two years. These are the
states
and
has
an
intimate
knowlelge
ficers of the company. The building the Oregon-American Lumber Com­
items of the opening of the big, nil
slogans that are broadcasted about
of
the
foreign
markets.
A
brief
chat
will be ¿f three stories and its cost1 pany at Vernonia sawed its first logs
steel, bcltless, electricfied, sawmill
Vernonia, Oregon. Vernonia is !o-
in the city of Vernonia. Last Thurs­ with him convinces the interviewer I will be about $40,000.
Thursday while a party of Portland
cated on the “Inland Highway, mid­
that
Mx
entrance
into
the
Northwest
The ground floor will be occupied railroad men, lumbermen and bank­
day the City Council and the Board
way between Portland and Ast ria,
of Directors of the Chamber of field came from an exact knowledge by two stores, which already have ers, guests of the management of the
about fifty miles from each city.
of
the
conditions
hero
and
elsewhere
been leased to local business concer­ company, watched with admiring eye.
Commerce were invited to participate
It has a trade territory for 30 miles
¡that
justified
an
initial
investment
ns. The frontjof the second floor fac­ Massive logs seemed but sylinters un­
in the purty celebrating the awing
in each direction with no competition.
¡that
runs
into
millions
with
the
im
­
of the first log by the new mill. A
ing Bridge street will contain five der the handling of man-made ma-
The little city is in the center of the
mediate
inauguration
of
large
scale
special train from Portland arrived
offices and the front of the third fl- chinery, and enormous forest coni-
"Nehalem’’ Valley, noted for it’s
operation.
ut 10:30 a. in. and all were shown
oor will be occupied by offices of the fers were speedly converted into tim-
fruit, vegetable and dairy possibilit­
Half Century Old
over the plant which took ubout two
different lodges. The rear half of the bers and planks for distribution to
ies. Only two years have passed rince
MILL OPENING IS CELEBRATED
hours. Luncheon was served on the
“The Central Coil A Coke comp­ second and third floors will be used far areas of the globe,
Vernonia was touched by a railr >ad,
dining car, and the large crowd, all any was founded by Charles S. Keith as a lodge hall and will be two stories j The Oregon-Amercian company has
giving the inhabitants an outlet to
Formal opening of the Oregon-
~
guests of the Central Coal Si Coke [ futher in 1871, and it now has exten- in height and have a floor
area of in the course of a year erected one
markets and to the outside world.
<’o., enjoyed every minute of the sive mine fields in Wyoming and 3000 square feet. The various lodge of the most modern equipped plants American company’s saw mill at For nearly 40 years the little village
time.
i other states to the eastward. In 1893 of the city will occupy the lodge hall ¡n existence. The plant occupies a Vernonia was celebrated Thursday, nestled cozy and contented a'ong
Superintendent E. E. Hayes was l^e concern entered the lumber field, on practically all the days of the 200-acre tract, including sawmill. when seventy-five lumbermen, bank­ side of the Nehalem river and Rock
seemingly every place at the right1
* ^e bulk of the timber holdings week and it is planned to use the hall planing shed, power plant, klin sheds, ers and railroad officials were the Creek and surrounded by big fir
time to explain in detail the work-',,f the O.-A. Lumber company is in for fraternal and social dances.—' off and on stacks, log pond and rail- guests of the company at the site of trees. The populace were busy; they
road yards. The pond, artifically con­ operations.
ings of certain parts of the mill. ( altsop and W h hington counties. Oregonian.
farmed, felled trees, fished and hunt­
A special train left Portland at
One
logging
camp
is
now
in
opera
­
structed,
covers 40-acres, and it will
The Portland Journal, last Sunday
ed, and were as neighborly as one
[8:30
a.
m.
and
reached
Vernonia
at big family. Then rumors of the iail-
require at least two months to saw all
Bank of Vernonia to Build
had a half page picture of the mill tion, another will be established in
10:40 a. m. Luncheon was served on
and a lengthy article on the opening the fall and a third next spring.
: A. E. Doyle has completed plans for the logs now afloat in the water.
road and talk of a big saw mill and
the
millsite, after which the visitors
800
Men
Will
Be
Employed
28
Dry
Klin,
which we here reprint:
a $20.000 building to be erected at
other industries opened the eyes of
The output of the Aregon-Ameri- inspected the plant, which will com- the inhabitants to the great pos ibil-
“When pressed for any out ita:i 1- Vernonia, Or., for the Bank of Ver­
“Thursday morning the whistles
blew at the magnificient new mill of ing features of construction in the i nonia. The building will be a one- can mill is estimated at between ì mence operations Friday.
ities in store for the village. In Aug­
the Oregon-American Lumber comp- new mill, Mr. Keith replied that no story brick structure. It will have a i 250,000 and 300,000 feet in eight [ • The new mill is the first in the ust, 1922 the S. P. & S. laid rails
any, Vernonia, the 225 men took unusual innovations bad been resort- commodious lobby and cages. On the hours. Working two shifts it will em­ , Northwest to be constructed entirely into Vernonia from Portland; it was
their allotted places, the machinery td to, the entire installation resulting mezzanine floor will be committee ploy about 400 men, while another 1 of steel and concrete, and represents a busy and exciting day. And every
was started by the electric power i from years of experience in lumber rooms and other facilitys. A modern f®°_will .b.e bUSyJn?h* ]°Kging _TL' with ten miles of logging road and since has been a little better to the
ations now penetrating to a point 13 other construction, an investment of business men setting stakes in the
generated at the mill, and the plant manufacture. All common lumber is safe will also be a feature.
I miles from Vernonia.
esveral million dollars.
was put into operation for the first i to be dry kl i tied. however, he pointed
thriving and fast growing city. Ver-
The contract for the general con­
Charles S. Keith, president of the
The sawmill of the plant has been
[out, and for this purpose 28 kilns, struction work has.been let to S. A.
time.
nonia has today some 2500 people
"There was no fanfare of * impets 'each with a capacity of 12,000 feet Fredrickson of Beaverton. Bauman ■ completed and a special excursion, Oregon-American Lumber company, and new houses being built every
and no speech-making to inaugurate ; per day, have been installed. The A Berglund of Vernonia were awar­ comprising about 100 men made the and Frank Schoflin, vice-president, week. Two years ago the Oregon-
this new large scale enterprise. It ¡kilns are in accordance with an ap­ ded the contract for plumbing and trip to Vernonia for the purpose of are also officers in the Central Coal American Lumber Co., a branch of
just began to saw wood, which it is proved design worked out at the U. heating. Construction work will be inspecting the new project and the' & Coke company of Kansas City, the Central Coal & Coke Co., of Kan­
ultra-modern equippment installed. 1 which controls the the O.-A. interests sas City Mo., purchased 200 acres in
___ to
. do at the rate of ____
expectel
250,000 3. Forest Service laboratory at Mud­ started Wednesday.
As the visitors set foot in the saw- 1 Approximately 250,000 feet of the city on which to build a big all
feet every eight hours ami at double j ison, Was.
mill
unit, wihch is constructed on sol­ lumber per eight hours shipt will be steel mill and 40 acres on which to
that rate when a scond shift of like j “The casual visitor is impressed
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
id concrete foundations and built handled by the new mill. The com­ 84 five room modern cottages have
number, which will be added later, | with the magnitude of the mill prop-
pany owns a stand of Douglas fir
is employed.
ter, sorter sheds, storage sheds, dry
The Christian church services nest strong steel framework, a roaring din
been built. For two years a large
fifteen miles from the mill which
greeted
them.
Automatic
conveyors
;
"And what is especially significant' kiln buildings, planing mill, power Lord's Day will be held in the high
construction gang has been work­
P*an^ >n operation on ing on this immense mill, the larg­
is that the operating company owns house and other structures which school auditorium. The unified morn­ hurried freshly cut lumber in all di-i**^' ^e*p
24,000 acres of timber, aggregating have arisen within a year on what ing services begin with the Bible rections so fast that the eye could two shifts for thirty years.
est all electric saw mill in the Unit­
The lumber will be sent largely
two and one-half billion feet, which for all previous time had been a ver­ schoool at 10. For the sermon at 11 scarcely follow. The crash of giant
ed States. Today the mill is finished,
on rail shipments East, going through
with the logs that the company panls ( itable jungle for its density.
the subject will be “Power Through forest monsters on the machinery Portland yards.
and on Thursday, July 10, the first
seemed to shake the solidly implanted
to buy in the market, will insure' "Once the mill is operating on two Knowing Christ”.
log was sawed into lumber. At the
Employment will be given 250 to
from 25 to 50 years’ supply to the i shifts its monthly payroll will aggre­
In the evening at 8 o’clock, the concrete of the foundations.
time a special train loaded with
300 men on each shift, with a crew
gate $135,000. And here is where the sermon will be given by J. M. Chas­ Steam Pressure Works Carriers
mill.
bankers, business men and timber­
The head rigs receiving the logs of over 200 in the woods. The com­ men, of Portland, Seattle and other
"In the middle of the morning town of Vernonia takes renewed in­ teen. His subject will be “The Open
from the pond are of the most mod­ pany has built around seventy-five large cities, came to witness the <• >en
there arrived a special train from terest.
Door”.
I houses at the millsite for rental to
Vernonia Grows
Portland over the now United Rail­
Everybody cordially invited to all ern design. r['he logs are hurled on its employees.
ing at the future Industrial Ce. ter.
"For a half century Vernonia has these services. W. A. Gressman, min- the carriers, which are of the shot­
ways line, bearing 80 timbermen,
With the starting of the big mill the
Among those invited to be a part
gun type operated by steam pres-
lumbermen, bankers and business.I nestled in the hills at the junction ister.
city is starting anew. More people
I sure, band saws square the trunks of the group to inspect the mill are employed, more camps opening in
men, who were the guests of Charles of Rock Creek and the Nehalem river
land send the large timbers on to be W. F. Turner, president of the Spo­ the vicinity, more business openings
25
miles
west
of
St.
Helens,
and
until
8. Keith of Kansas City, president
NEW BRICK BLOCK
cut into veritable toothpicks by the kane, Portland & Seattle railroad; being established and an optomcitic
of the Central Coal A Coke company the advent of improved highway* it
A. J. Davison, general manager; W.
1
which is the parent concern of the was quite inaccessible in the winter
Mr. Baldwin is just finishing his 40-blade gang-saw. The lengths are
air prevails. More industries are v ant
D. Skinner, traffic manager; Paul
then
fed
to
the
trimmers,
one
of
O.-A. Lumber company. Frank Schof- »eaion. It« older resident« recall the new fire proof
block on Bridge
ed. Small factories are solic'ted,
McKay, purchasing agent; E. L.
other officials of the company.
^hope entertained years ago for direct street west of Mr. Richmond’s office which is a 40-foot machine, the other
such as box factories, handle f ict-
tin, of Kansas, pice-president, and rail communication with the outside It is one of the best buildings in the a 24. The first slices taken by the King, superintendent of the South­ ories, chair factories, creamery, I rick
“This party was shown through the world, a hope that ha* just been real- city. With the cement floor and tile ¡band saws from the big logs are con­ ern Pacific, and J. P. O’Brien, gen­ and tile plant—thepe are other like
eral manager; C. E. Dant of the
new mill of steel and concrete, which i«»d by the establishment of an in­ and brick construction it is entire­ veyed to the edgers, of which there
institutions are needed and des red.
Dant
& Russell Lumber company; H.
are
two
large
ones
and
a
small
one.
represents the latest type of con-, dustry which at ita very beginning ly fire proof and an asset to the
The city has splendid churches, stand
struction. They saw great fir logs employs probably as many men as town. The new building will be oc­ Here they are ripped and carried B. Van Duzer of the Innman-Paulsen ard grade and high schools, hos] ital
Lumber company; John B. Yeon; F.
which hail been dumped into the new there were people in Vernonia wkr cupied by Mr. Corey with his “Crown away for sorting and storage until
good theatres, city water system, a
,C.
Knapp of the Peninsula Lumber
they
are
demanded
by
the
market.
1
the
enterprise
was
begun.
sewer system under construction,
iy created 40-acre pond after having,
.Department Store.” The store will
An intricate system of conveyors company; Frank Ransom of the and light and power from Vernonia
"In the intervening year since A
been transported by rail from the
be opened next week and Mr. Corey
Eastern A Western Lumber comp­
logging camp 11 miles to the north- new mill ha* been under construct* informs us that he will handle gro­ , operated by men at controls allows .
Light A Power Co., a hydro-electric
any; Myron Woodard, of the Silver
'
the
sawed
strips
to
be
sent
in
any
west, lifted into the mill, thence to the population of the town has In­ ceries and furnishings, as well as
plant on Rock Creek. A second rail­
Falls Lumber company, and Charles
road is now headed for Vern. nia
carriers, operated by steam, and creased to a point where Dr. Soars, shoes and dry goods, making a regu­ ! direction which the sorter may choose
R. McCormick of the St. Helens
If
it
is
decided
a
timber
must
suffer
and new camps are being estal .ish-
transpirted into lumber of varying it* energetic mayor, claim* it to num­ lar department store out of it.
the mutilating fury of the re-saw, Lumber company.—Telegram.
ber 2000, and points with pride to
r'u'.es at the will of the sawyer.
ed, and every assurance prove that
then the piece in question is sent
' They saw the cut lumber, after it the new school construction, new wat WHY FRACTIONAL VOTES
the population will double within an­
EVANGELICAL CHURCH
had passed through the several pro­ ersystem and other factor* that the
IN A NATIONAL CONVENTION currying to its fate by the mere pres­
other two years. A new mill is now
sure of a lever, the slight twitch of a
cesses of manufacture mechanically growing population of a thriving
being talked of by a different timber
Suriday school at 10 a. m.
Fractional votes occur when few­ finger.
sorted and distributed until it found town requires, including sewer,
company which will aid greatly to
Christian
Endeavor
at
7
p.
m.
Sorter Ingenious Device
er than the full membership of a
its way to the stacker sheds and stor- Street* and light and power.' »»
Morning service at 11.
Subject the hustling little business center. In
The
sawed material is carried to
state
delegation
cast
the
vote
allot
­
the present new mill just starting a-
age sheds.
“Testing Your Religion."
ted to their state. Thus, if a state [the sorter, an ingenious device
FIRE BOYS ALWAYS READY
bout 800 men will be employed in
“They were impressed by the new-
Evening
service
at
8.
Subject,
“
At
were entitled to 20 votes and only which operates like a sieve automa­
mill and camp. The output will be
est methods contrived by mnn to
the Dawn of a New Age.”
The fire alarm sounded again Sun- 17 members were present and these tically to cache each length of lum­
transform logs into lumber in the
Mnday evening, July 21, a concert 300,000 board feet of lumber per
most economical fashion and especi- day morning and before it can be divided, say 9 to 8, the candidate re­ ber in its proper resting place for in the social hall by the Vincent En­ eight hour shift and they will run
ally by the outlay of capital which told Chief Smith was at one of the ceiving nine votes would receive drying. The operator of the head-rig tertainers, under the auspices of the two shifts. Witnessing the starting
the enterprise represents.
.hose stations and in two minutes the nine-seventeenths of 20. The meth­ on this osrter is held responsible church choir. Admission will be 50c i of the plant was a sight long to be
“Doubtless the most interested j west side hose wagon was attached od is based on the principle that the for the efficiency of the device. He for adults and 25c for children under remembered.
The above is part of an article on
spectator in the party was Mr. Keith to Joe Bauman’s auto on it’s way to state is entitled to full representa­ steers each plank into its right chan­ 12 years. The Vincent entertainers
whose modest manner gave no indica' the fire. The “fire” was a false alarm tion in relation to other states, nel and the machinery does the rest. are recommended by Rev. Phelps who Vernonia appearing in the August
The mill is operated almost entire­
tion of the fact that he was witness-I but the speed and willingness of the whether or not all the individual del
was the main speaker at the recent number of the "Ameircan Railway
ing the initial operation of a plant department
d-niiriinoni members
„.«mhora to act and act egates are present at a particular ly by electric power. Some machines K. K. K. celebration.
Journal” a monthly Magazine print­
ed in Los Angeles and widely circu­
that represents over three years’ ne-. quick was demonstrated as. it always time. It is also happens that some are driven by steam, such as the head
Tuesday evening choir practice.
gotiation and construction and the in, is in an emergency. Vernonia is well states send a greater number of del­ rig carrier, the “ni ger” on the
Thursday evening prayer meeting lated in every state in the Union. The
journal had a picture of our new
vestment of an immense amount of ( equipped for so young a department, egates than their quotas. A state, head-rig, the dreg sr .v, cutting logs and Bible study.
capital. Yet nothing escaped his keen and the city owes a great dea Ito our for example, entitled to ten full del­ into right lengths, and rollers which
Tuesday, July 22, the annual camp mill on their cover page. It will be
water system and the fire depart­ egates, may send 20, each polling grasp the boards as they are fed in meeting of the conference opens at seen and read by many thousands.
eye.
¡the edgers. The mill has its own pow Jenning’s Lodge, Oregon. The Sun­
ment that is alwnys there when any one-half vote.
Rarge Scale Operation
er plant. Three generators, one sup-
CITY ELECTION APPROACHIN
“Thist is the advent of the Central danger threatens your home or bus-
day school convention will be held at
MARRIED
1 ply direct and two alternating cur­ the same place on the 31st, and
Coal A Cope company into the Pacif­ iness.
the
A Caucus will soon be called to
rent, are propelled by steam turbines Christian Endeavor convention
ic Northwest, yet for years it has oc-
the
nominate an entire city ticket. Some
Miss Eula Pearl John and Mr. R. Furnaces of the boilers are fed by day before at the same place.
RAILROAD WORK
.zzwied a commanding position in the
names have been mentioned of men
C. Stanton of Vernonia were married hog-fuel and sawdust. Especially
hern pine belt, where it now op­
regarded as interested tn the city’s
at
the
home
of
the
bride
’
s
parents
on
constructed
chain
conveyors
carry
The
Railroad
has
a
force
working
erates three large mills, which with
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CATHOLIC CHURCH
welfare and the Eagle sees nothin*
the new Vernonia plant will turn out at Vernonia on cuts and sidings. The,Tuesday evening, July 15. The young the refuse of the mill in the form
Mass and Sermon on the titira wrong with the ticket spoken of.
a total of 325,000,000 feet of lumber road to the mill off the main track couple are very well and favorably of dust and splinters to the fuel bin.
Mayor: A. W. Petersen.
every year.
[is being bettered by the cutting down [known over the valley and all are From the bin other carriers lead to Sunday of each month, at 11:30 a.
Councilmen: C. S. Hoffman, N.
‘ In spite of his limited personal of the entire hill at the curve. The (wishing them all happiness and pros- the feed chutes. Thus the furnaces m. Week day communion Maaa to
contact with the Oregon country, [big steam shovel is quite a sight to perity. They left Wednesday for Col- are automatically fed, requiring the bo announced. Joe. P. Clancy, Pas­ Soden, W. C. Repass and J. P. Mc­
Donald.
attention
of —
only
one — or two —
men. tor.
none is more aware of its opporton- behold.
fax, Wash., on a honeymoon trip.
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