ASTORIA BOX & LUMBER COMPANY
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Clatsop County - Astoria
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March 1, 1881: “The Astoria box and lumber manufacturing company have their new mill completed and will commence sawing to-day. Many other improvements are going on which are creditable to the place.” (The Morning Astorian)
March 19, 1881: “The Astoria Box and Lumber company have their buildings nearly completed and with steam up were busily at work manufacturing boxes.” (The Morning Astorian)
January 16, 1884: “The work of driving piles for the new mill of the Astoria Box Factory was temporarily suspended yesterday, owing to the pile driver having a hole knocked in the bottom.” (The Morning Astorian)
February 21, 1884: "The Astoria Box and Lumber Company are pushing their mill to completion as fast as the weather will allow. At the West Shore mill is a large amount of excellent box material." (Daily Morning Astorian)
November 1899: “The Astoria Box Factory, over which W. F. McGregor so satisfactorily presides, cuts between 20,000 to 30,000 feet per day, a large portion of which is spruce. This concern makes a specialty of salmon boxes and has an excellent box factory in connection with its plant. A new box factory is being erected 40 x 100 and a dry house 40 x 80 feet. The street railway company will furnish steam for the dry kilns and also power for the box factory.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
December 1899: “The Astoria Box Company have their dry kiln building up, and will install a Standard dry kiln.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
January 1900: “W. F. MacGregor, of the Astoria Box Company, recently returned from a business trip East. His company has received an order from San Francisco for 200,000 boxes, which will require about 1,000,000 feet of spruce to fill.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
January 1900: “The Astoria Box Company has received several large orders for salmon boxes that will keep its plant running night and day for the next few months as well as their branch, the Necanicum Spruce Lumber Company mill at Seaside.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
February 1900: “The new box factory being built by the Astoria Box Company occupies a ground space of 65 x 165, one story high with corrugated iron roof. The equipment consists of 15 x 22 engine, Egan No. 5 ½ band re-saw, Fisher Machine Works automatic cutoff, Standard dry kiln, 25,000 daily capacity; 2 box-plowers and matcher, Tatum & Bowen gang edger, Ames & Morris printing machine. The factory has a capacity of 4,000 to 5,000 boxes daily, which means a consumption of 24,000 to 25,000 feet of lumber. A side track has been built connecting the factory with the A. & C. road, providing adequate shipping facilities and allowing the cars to be loaded directly from the dry kiln under cover. A splendidly lighted filing room with every facility for rapid and first class work, has been provided. This firm is working on some large Alaska and California orders. W. F. McGregor, the genial manager, is a wide awake, progressive citizen, and has built up a splendid reputation for his product.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
February 1900: “W. E. Clarke, of San Francisco, the affable agent of the Astoria Box Factory, was in the city this month looking after business matters.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
January 1, 1904: "Astoria Box Company's mill (McGregor's mill), in Astoria; capacity doubled to 60,000 feet per day; box factory's capacity, 25,000 feet per day in box shooks." (Morning Oregonian)
November 9, 1920: "As an immediate result of the steamers making Astoria a port of call, local mills have been enabled to compete successfully in the box trade of the Hawaiian Islands. The Astoria Box company at the present time is filling an order for 300,000 boxes for that territory." (The Evening Herald)
April 12, 1923: "Astoria Box Co., adds new equipment to increase output." (Southern Coos County American)
November 1926: "Astoria Box Co., Astoria, is erecting an additional smokestack." (The Timberman)
March 11, 1927: "Astoria Box company expects to run three shifts, 250 men each, and will build 50-ton pulp mill." (Ashland American)