CAMPBELL & SWEIGERT
Glendale
Continued from: Glendale Box Factory
March 27, 1908: “Messrs. Campbell and Swigert, of Portland, the new owners of the box factory, have been in town several days the past week, looking after their business interests, and we understand, they have also bought some timber land on Cow Creek from Mr. Silsby. The factory has been gotten in readiness for work, which will commence next Monday. The plant will be entirely remodeled later, and will employ from fifty to one hundred men all summer.” (The Glendale News)
March 27, 1908: “Mr. C. F. Swigert, a member of the firm of Campbell & Swigert, who recently bought the local box factory, is President-elect of the Portland Chamber of Commerce.” (The Glendale News)
April 21, 1908: "Campbell & Swigert, Portland, purchasers of the A. W. Silsby sawmill at West Fork, and the Glendale Box factory, Glendale, will build a new box factory with a cutting capacity of 40,000 feet daily. H. A. Colvin, of Grants Pass, formerly with Coos Manufacturing Company, will charge of the factory." (Daily Capital Journal)
May 1, 1908: “The Glendale Box Co. are busy remodeling their plant.” (The Glendale News)
May 1, 1908: “C. T. Nail, as trustee of the Glendale Box Factory, has brought suit against Campbell & Swigert in the Douglas Co. Circuit Court for possession of the factory premises, which the defendants are alleged to be holding 'wrongfully'. Damages to the extent of $100 are also demanded.” (The Glendale News)
May 29, 1908: “A judgment was given in the box factory case which was up before the circuit court in Roseburg last Tuesday. Campbell & Swigert won the case and it is to be hoped that the box factory matters will now proceed to a more rapid conclusion so that the laborers may get their money.” (The Glendale News)
June 19, 1908: “Campbell & Swigert have shipped in a new stationary engine to be used in their box factory here.” (The Glendale News)
August 7, 1908: “The Box Factory are erecting an Office building opposite the New Livery Stable on Pacific avenue.” (The Glendale News)
August 21, 1908: “The new box factory is now running with nearly a full crew and puts on a very busy appearance these days. The main building is 40 x 120 feet. A shed for drying and storing is to be erected in the near future and new machinery and other improvements are being constantly added. When entirely completed the factory will be one of the best equipped and up-to-date in these parts. The pay roll is large which will mean additional prosperity to our community.” (The Glendale News)
September 4, 1908: “The employees at the box factory held a meeting last week and formed a sick and accident association for their own protection. The plan is that each employee shall pay $1 per week into the treasury until the sum of $500 is raised. This is drawn upon in case of the accident or sickness of any of the men to pay their doctor and drug bills. As soon as the $500 is raised the weekly $1 assessment ceases until the treasury is drawn upon, then the assessment starts again, continuing until the sum is intact. This gives employees fine protection and the plan has been tried in other large plants and is extremely popular in all cases.” (The Glendale News)
October 9, 1908: “Andy Colvin, manager of the Glendale Box Factory, was in the city yesterday afternoon attending to business matters. He states that the box factory is now operating at a profit and is now employing in the neighborhood of 100 men.---Umpqua Valley News.” (The Glendale News)
October 30, 1908: “The box factory shut down temporarily owing to a shortage of certain materials. It will re-open in a few days, probably next week.” (The Glendale News)
November 13, 1908: “The box factory has been shut down for a few days on account of lack of room in the store house. The factory will commence work again next Monday morning.” (The Glendale News)
December 25, 1908: “The box factory expects to open for work again Monday.” (The Glendale News)
April 30, 1909: “The box factory was shut down Wednesday owing to difficulty with a belt.” (The Glendale News)
July 2, 1909: “The box factory is running day and night now.” (The Glendale News)
July 9, 1909: “The Glendale Box Factory, owned and operated by Campbell & Swigert of Portland, has grown to be one of the chief features in Glendale's industrial life. While the factory is not the largest, it is the best equipped and most up to date factory along the line. The machinery is all modern improved and the large and expensive orders which have been pouring in so rapidly that it has become necessary to put on both a day and night crew, speak volumes for the class of work turned out. The factory is turning out from seven to eight thousand boxes daily, or about ten carloads a week, besides they are now cutting about two car-loads of door stock per week for the Weed Lumber Co. The payroll at present is between five and six thousand dollars per month.
Mr. Colvin, the local manager, has just contracted for 1,000,000 ft. of lumber from Cone, McKee & Hodges of Woodville; 2,000,000 ft. from Edgerton of Hugo; 1,500,000 ft. from West Fork; and about a half a million from Harding & Ladd; and is now contracting with the Oregon-Idaho mill for their entire season's cut of pine lumber, as well as large amounts from the Lystul-Stuvland Co. and other local mills. Every million feet of lumber manufactured means about $5000 on the payroll. The Factory has contracts for 75 cars, and the company's representative in Southern California now has orders for all the orange boxes the company can turn out this season. This will mean steady work for a long time. The management plan to install new machinery in order to increase the already large capacity of the mill.” (The Glendale News)
Mr. Colvin, the local manager, has just contracted for 1,000,000 ft. of lumber from Cone, McKee & Hodges of Woodville; 2,000,000 ft. from Edgerton of Hugo; 1,500,000 ft. from West Fork; and about a half a million from Harding & Ladd; and is now contracting with the Oregon-Idaho mill for their entire season's cut of pine lumber, as well as large amounts from the Lystul-Stuvland Co. and other local mills. Every million feet of lumber manufactured means about $5000 on the payroll. The Factory has contracts for 75 cars, and the company's representative in Southern California now has orders for all the orange boxes the company can turn out this season. This will mean steady work for a long time. The management plan to install new machinery in order to increase the already large capacity of the mill.” (The Glendale News)
August 6, 1909: “The Glendale Box Factory put on a night crew Monday and are now running day and night.” (The Glendale News)
August 13, 1909: “Harvey Hutton, of Portland, who was working at the box factory, got two fingers on his left hand cut off and the third finger on the same hand badly lacerated, while at work on the edger last Monday evening. He was taken to the doctor's office where his wounds were dressed, and he is now getting along as well as could be expected.” (The Glendale News)
August 27, 1909: “The sawdust team at the box factory took a lively sprint up the street yesterday, smashing into the electric light pole in front of the electric theater. Doc Hutson, the driver, and the little Williams boy, who was with him, were both thrown out, but were not hurt.” (The Glendale News)
September 24, 1909: “The Box Factory fire whistle and the fire bell called out the firemen and aroused our citizens last night about 10 o'clock. The fire, in a little pile of sawdust in the boiler room at the factory, was out before it did any damage.” (The Glendale News)
November 12, 1909: “The box factory is shut down for a few days while repairs are being made on the boiler.” (The Glendale News)
November 19, 1909: “The box factory opened for work again last Monday.” (The Glendale News)
December 10, 1909: “Two accidents at the mills this week---one at the box factory where a son of Mr. and Mrs. Christopherson lost the ends of two of his fingers on the cut-off saw." (The Glendale News)
December 24, 1909: “Charles Tyndall had his hand cut quite severely by a saw at the box factory yesterday morning.” (The Glendale News)
April 1, 1910: “H. C. Campbell, of the firm of Campbell & Swigert, of Portland, was a business caller at the Glendale Box Factory yesterday.” (The Glendale News)