CAPITAL SAWMILL LUMBERING CO.
April 9, 1870: "On the 4th, at Salem, J. W. Gamble, a carpenter, had his arm terribly broken and crushed, while working in the Capital lumber mills, by being caught between a large drum and belt while adjusting the latter." (Albany Register)
April 3, 1875: "The Capital Sawmill Lumbering Company and the Salem Sawmill Co. have consolidated." (Morning Oregonian)
January 1, 1900: "This old and reliable company was established in 1866 and of the original incorporators, viz: W.R. Patty, J. H. Roork, J.E. Witten, J.M. McCaslen, E. D. Towl, John Hughes and J. B. Forsythe, the two latter only, are now living.
It is the only extensive saw mill and planing mill established in this vicinity. The average capacity of the mill is 40,000 feet per day of 10 hours.
The company receives its logs principally from the choice timber tracts along the Luckimute in the Coast mountains, and last summer they also received upwards of 1,000,000 feet from the McKenzie, and the manufactured product cannot be excelled by any market in the state.
During the past year, besides a large local trade, the company enjoyed an extensive shipping business, amounting in the aggregate to a large figure. Several car loads were sent to California, several contracts for the Indian school were filled, and the Company has just completed a contract for furnishing the Southern Pacific Company with several thousand railroad ties. They always have on hand a complete stock of lumber of all kinds, comprising flooring, rustic, ceiling, stepping and finishing lumber of all sizes, and rough lumber of all descriptions, also lath, pickets, boxes, fence posts, shingles, etc. Satisfaction always guaranteed in quality and price. The offal of the mill, slab wood, sawdust, etc., command a ready sale, in fact the demand for sawdust exceeds the supply. The S. L. & T. Co. are now using that commodity for fuel.
The present manager, A. N. Moores, has been engaged in the lumber business for over 20 years, and is authority in that line.
The office and mills are located at the foot of Ferry street." (Statesman Journal)
It is the only extensive saw mill and planing mill established in this vicinity. The average capacity of the mill is 40,000 feet per day of 10 hours.
The company receives its logs principally from the choice timber tracts along the Luckimute in the Coast mountains, and last summer they also received upwards of 1,000,000 feet from the McKenzie, and the manufactured product cannot be excelled by any market in the state.
During the past year, besides a large local trade, the company enjoyed an extensive shipping business, amounting in the aggregate to a large figure. Several car loads were sent to California, several contracts for the Indian school were filled, and the Company has just completed a contract for furnishing the Southern Pacific Company with several thousand railroad ties. They always have on hand a complete stock of lumber of all kinds, comprising flooring, rustic, ceiling, stepping and finishing lumber of all sizes, and rough lumber of all descriptions, also lath, pickets, boxes, fence posts, shingles, etc. Satisfaction always guaranteed in quality and price. The offal of the mill, slab wood, sawdust, etc., command a ready sale, in fact the demand for sawdust exceeds the supply. The S. L. & T. Co. are now using that commodity for fuel.
The present manager, A. N. Moores, has been engaged in the lumber business for over 20 years, and is authority in that line.
The office and mills are located at the foot of Ferry street." (Statesman Journal)
January 23, 1900: "Southern Pacific Company has purchased 5000 from the Capital Lumber Co. of Salem.
The Southern Pacific Company's tie train, with a force of workmen, reached Salem Sunday. The crew was yesterday engaged loading into box cars a lot of railroad ties---5000 in number----that had recently been purchased of the Capital Lumber Company, of this city.
The ties will be taken directly to the company's burnitizing plant at Latham, Lane county, where they will be put through the process by which they are preserved. By the process all of the natural sap is extracted from the tie, which in turn is thoroughly saturated with a preserving fluid. It requires eight hours' treatment before a batch of ties are taken from the plant. As a consequence of the treatment, the original weight of the tie is increased about 30 per cent. A timber weighing 100 pounds when treated, will weigh 130 pounds. By this process the ties will last for years." (Weekly Oregon Statesman)
The Southern Pacific Company's tie train, with a force of workmen, reached Salem Sunday. The crew was yesterday engaged loading into box cars a lot of railroad ties---5000 in number----that had recently been purchased of the Capital Lumber Company, of this city.
The ties will be taken directly to the company's burnitizing plant at Latham, Lane county, where they will be put through the process by which they are preserved. By the process all of the natural sap is extracted from the tie, which in turn is thoroughly saturated with a preserving fluid. It requires eight hours' treatment before a batch of ties are taken from the plant. As a consequence of the treatment, the original weight of the tie is increased about 30 per cent. A timber weighing 100 pounds when treated, will weigh 130 pounds. By this process the ties will last for years." (Weekly Oregon Statesman)