NECANICUM SPRUCE LUMBER CO.
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Clatsop County - Seaside
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November 25, 1899: "The Necanicum Spruce Lumber Company, of Seaside, has purchased the boiler formerly in use in the old Knappton cannery, and will use it to increase the capacity of the company's box factory and dryhouses. The new dryhouse has a capacity of 60,000 and will soon be completed. An Eagan bands resaw machine has recently been purchased in the East and will arrive shortly at its destination. This company recently purchased 3,000,000 feet of spruce timber along the Necanicum, and a contract has been let for logging it." (Myrtle Point Enterprise)
November 1899: “The Necanicum Spruce Lumber Company of Seaside is preparing to enlarge the capacity of its box factory in order to fill the large number of orders it is receiving from California. An 80-foot extension will soon be added to the dry kiln house and several new machines have been ordered for the factory proper. The company has also purchased a tract of timber and will in the near future let a contract for logging it. By so doing it is claimed that logs can be secured at a cost of but $3.50 per thousand, which will give the plant quite an advantage over its competitors.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
December 1899: “The Necanicum Spruce Lumber Company of Seaside have recently added a dry kiln to their plant.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
December 1899: “The Necanicum Spruce Lumber Company is erecting a dry kiln, and have put in some new box-making machinery.” (The Columbia River and Oregon Timberman)
February 17, 1900: "Six carloads of box shooks were shipped today by the Necanicum Spruce Lumber Company to San Francisco for the Artic Oil Company, a branch of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company." (Morning Oregonian)
September 18, 1902: “All holdings of the Necanicum Spruce Lumber company, including the sawmill, box factory and several thousand acres of timber tributary to the Necanicum and O'Hanna, have been sold to Minneapolis capitalists. The consideration was over $100,000. The company plans extensive improvements.” (The Harrisburg Bulletin)
January 15, 1903: “The county commissioners' court was in session yesterday. The Necanicum Spruce Lumber company was granted the privilege of constructing crossings near Seaside for the purpose of hauling logs across the county road.” (The Morning Astorian)