CROWN PAPER COMPANY
Oregon City
January 26, 1903: "R. Sutherland, an employe of the Crown Paper Company, received injuries Friday morning that resulted fatally. Sutherland was working underneath the machine that carries wood to the choppers when someone, not knowing Sunderland's position, started the machine and the unfortunate was carried in the machinery towards the chopping knives and the machine was stopped just in time to prevent his being cut into a thousand pieces. As it was he was within a foot of the revolving knives when the machinery was stopped. Sunderland was taken from the machine to his home where he was cared for. He received internal injuries, his lungs being punctured, and died Friday evening." (Clackamas County Record)
March 16, 1903: "The new pulp mill of the Crown Paper Company started up last week, and while the mill is not entirely completed, its machinery can be operated to turn out stock. It contains two large sized grinders, two wet machines, three barkers and the necessary screens and other appliances for making pulp. It has a very large floor space for storing pulp. At present the cotton wood used in the manufacture of pulp is transferred from a steamer by a derrick." (Clackamas County Record)
April 23, 1903: "C. R. Stephens, a worker in the Crown pulp mills, met with an accident Friday that will lay him off for a few weeks. His hand was caught between a pair of grinders and the tops of the fingers badly squeezed." (Clackamas County Record)
July 30, 1903: "Assistant General Manager W. P. Hawley, of the Crown Paper Company, states that his company has contracted for the installation of an oil reservoir to contain from eight to ten thousand barrels. Work will be commenced without delay and it is probable that before six months elapse the Crown Paper and pulp mills will be using oil as fuel in place of wood. For several years both the Willamette Pulp and Paper Company and the Crown Paper Company have been figuring on replacing the wood burning boilers with apparatus for burning oil. A great deal of time has been spent in preliminary arrangements, which are now practically complete as regards the Crown Paper Company. The Willamette Pulp and Paper Company still has the matter under consideration and it is only a matter of a very short time, when this mill also, will be burning oil.
These changes are due in a great degree to the increasing scarcity of wood and its steady advance in price. Oil is cheaper and just mas reliable.
The Crown Paper Company's new reservoir will be the north side of the mill. The excavation, filling and lining will be covered with concrete covering to a depth of three feet.
About 8000 cords of wood annually are burned by the Crown Paper Company, and with the installation of oil for fuel, from 16,000 to 20,000 barrels a year will be consumed." (Clackamas County Record)
These changes are due in a great degree to the increasing scarcity of wood and its steady advance in price. Oil is cheaper and just mas reliable.
The Crown Paper Company's new reservoir will be the north side of the mill. The excavation, filling and lining will be covered with concrete covering to a depth of three feet.
About 8000 cords of wood annually are burned by the Crown Paper Company, and with the installation of oil for fuel, from 16,000 to 20,000 barrels a year will be consumed." (Clackamas County Record)