KLAMATH MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Pelican City
Continued from: California Fruit Canners' Association
February 26, 1912: "According to the local representative of the Johnson-Clarke company's box factory enterprise the Klamath Manufacturing company, which will be the title of the new concern, was born Saturday at San Francisco, with a capital of $100,000, and Robert Johnson and W.I. Clarke, who were instrumental in organizing the concern among San Francisco capitalists, will leave the Golden Gate city Wednesday for Klamath Falls to look after the work of installing the plant.
It is expected to spend $25,000 on the buildings and machinery which are to adorn the five-acre site back of the Savidge mill and on the canal, which is to connect the site with Lake Ewauna, which water conduit will make easy transportation to and from the mills tributary to the lake and Klamath River. The land, which was purchased through popular subscription, with a view of donating the site and inducing the box company to locate in this city, was formerly a part of the holdings of the Klamath Development company.
The company expects to have a payroll approximating $10,000 per month, and to use up 15,000,000 feet of lumber in a season at the start, not only making shook, but shaping material for sashes, doors and blinds as well, thus aiming to become a very important factor in the industrial side of the city's welfare. It is stated that the factory will be the largest enterprise of the kind in this part of the country, and that contracts for the first season's output have already been contracted for. Some of the contracts for material have already been made with lumbermen, and the promoters are confident that they will be able to get all the raw material they want.
Mr. Johnson, formerly general manager of the C.A. Smith Lumber company of Portland and Minneapolis, is understood to have put up and supervised the box factory for that company at Bay Point, Calif., one of the largest of the kind in the West, and to be a man of broad experience in his line." (The Evening Herald)
It is expected to spend $25,000 on the buildings and machinery which are to adorn the five-acre site back of the Savidge mill and on the canal, which is to connect the site with Lake Ewauna, which water conduit will make easy transportation to and from the mills tributary to the lake and Klamath River. The land, which was purchased through popular subscription, with a view of donating the site and inducing the box company to locate in this city, was formerly a part of the holdings of the Klamath Development company.
The company expects to have a payroll approximating $10,000 per month, and to use up 15,000,000 feet of lumber in a season at the start, not only making shook, but shaping material for sashes, doors and blinds as well, thus aiming to become a very important factor in the industrial side of the city's welfare. It is stated that the factory will be the largest enterprise of the kind in this part of the country, and that contracts for the first season's output have already been contracted for. Some of the contracts for material have already been made with lumbermen, and the promoters are confident that they will be able to get all the raw material they want.
Mr. Johnson, formerly general manager of the C.A. Smith Lumber company of Portland and Minneapolis, is understood to have put up and supervised the box factory for that company at Bay Point, Calif., one of the largest of the kind in the West, and to be a man of broad experience in his line." (The Evening Herald)
March 13, 1912: “Robert A. Johnson and W.I. Clarke, who are to build and operate a big box factory in Klamath Falls, left yesterday afternoon on the Klamath Falls special car for San Francisco, where in addition to attending the ceremonies in connection with the Oregon building, they will attend to matters in connection with the local enterprise.
While they are south they will order the necessary machinery for the plant they expect, upon their return two weeks hence, to be ready to commence active work. The plant and machinery, it is estimated, will cost $40,000.
Mr. Johnson expects his family to accompany him to take up their residence here when he returns from Oakland.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
While they are south they will order the necessary machinery for the plant they expect, upon their return two weeks hence, to be ready to commence active work. The plant and machinery, it is estimated, will cost $40,000.
Mr. Johnson expects his family to accompany him to take up their residence here when he returns from Oakland.” (The Klamath Falls Northwestern)
May 1912: "Klamath Manufacturing Co., recently incorporated for $100,000, has received the equipment for its new box factory, which is being installed." (The Timberman, Vol. 13)
May 23, 1912: "W. I. Clarke, who on Friday closed the deal for the sale of the Innes-Clarke saw mill and property, states that this does not mean that he has any intention of leaving Klamath Falls. 'My home is here,' said Mr. Clarke, 'and I now intend to get busy on the new box factory to be built by Robert A. Johnson and myself. Through the illness of Mr. Johnson's wife, which prevented him from coming here, and also as my own time has been pretty well taken up in the deal just closed, The starting on the box factory has been delayed, but I expect Mr. Johnson here soon, and it won't be a great while before the factory will be built and ready for operation." (Klamath Republican)
June 1, 1912: "The Klamath Manufacturing Co. has received equipment for its new $100,000 box factory." & "W.I. Clarke, an official of the Klamath Manufacturing Co., recently returned to Klamath Falls, where work is being rushed on the erection of its box factory." (American Lumberman)
June 1912: "Klamath Manufacturing Co. will install a box factory at Klamath Falls. The plant will have a cutting up capacity of about 90,000 feet per day. R.A. Johnson is president and general manager; W.I. Clarke, formerly of Clark-Innes Lumber Co., secretary and Treasurer. The plant will be ready to operate by early Fall." (The Timberman, Vol. 13)
March 6, 1916: "The Klamath Manufacturing company's sawmill, which was completed late last fall, will get as early start as possible this spring. During the season some late machinery is to be installed in this plant by F. Hill Hunter, of the Sawmill Construction and Engineering company." (The Evening Herald)
July 7, 1916: "What might have been a very costly fire in the sawmill of the Klamath Manufacturing company at Shippington was soon put out last evening by employes of the mill. The blaze started in the boiler room, but was discovered before it had made much headway, and with the use of the company's fire prevention system was extinguished before help from here arrived.
Four or five men were doing extra work in the sawmill and the box factory crew was working a quarter shift when the fire started, about 9 o'clock. A large number of people from Klamath Falls quickly responded when the alarm was turned in." (The Evening Herald)
Four or five men were doing extra work in the sawmill and the box factory crew was working a quarter shift when the fire started, about 9 o'clock. A large number of people from Klamath Falls quickly responded when the alarm was turned in." (The Evening Herald)
April 7, 1917: "H. C. Putnam was struck in the eye by a flying knot while running the shingle saw at the Klamath Manufacturing Company's box factory here. While the injury is painful the attending physician, Dr. Merryman, says he will recover within a few days." (The Evening Herald)
April 18, 1917: "The Klamath Manufacturing Company has purchased 15,000,000 feet of timber from the Weed Lumber Company. This timber will be shipped in over the Southern Pacific from the north end of the Weed Lumber Company's tract and will enlarge the field of logging operations for Klamath Falls to that extent. The logging trains are now running, a spur having been constructed at the mill to put the logs in the water." (The Evening Herald)
May 2, 1917: "The Klamath Manufacturing company is running its box factory ten hours a day now and the sawmill night and day." (The Evening Herald)