STANDARD BOX FACTORY COMPNAY
Portland
March 31, 1902: "Beginning tomorrow, April 1, an increase in wages of 25 cent per day will be made to all employes of the Standard Box Factory and saw mill hands employed by the same company. As there are about 100 men in the factory and about the mills, this will mean a considerable increase in the monthly payroll.
The men in the yards at the mill now receive not less than $1.75 a day, and many of them $2.00 and up to $3.50, all owing to the positions which they hold and the efficiency of their work.
C. C. Woodcock and S. B. Cobb, managers of the factory and mill, said today that the advance is made wholly voluntarily on their part." (The Evening Journal)
The men in the yards at the mill now receive not less than $1.75 a day, and many of them $2.00 and up to $3.50, all owing to the positions which they hold and the efficiency of their work.
C. C. Woodcock and S. B. Cobb, managers of the factory and mill, said today that the advance is made wholly voluntarily on their part." (The Evening Journal)
May 18, 1903: "Work on the new sawmill plant for the Standard Box Factory Company at the foot of East Ankeny, East Ash and East Oak streets, is progressing rapidly. When the box factory department is built, which will be done late in the season, the plant will be the largest in the Northwest. At present the sawmill and other buildings are being built. The sawmill will stand across East Water street and along the south side of East Ankeny street and will be 40 x 200 feet. Foundation piles have been driven and the frame for the mill is up. It extends well out toward the river for the handling of logs. On the south side of the mill building the concrete foundation for the engines is being built up from the ground. When completed it will stand nearly on a level with East Water street. The boiler house will stand along side the engine south of the main building. The entire block bound by East Ankeny, East Water and East First streets is being covered with piles for foundation of two large dry kilns and for storage of lumber. An elevated roadway has been completed on East Water street from East Pine to the main mill building, and on this roadway the large timbers are being framed. It is the intention of the company to complete the sawmill plant before erecting the box factory. An entire block bounded by East Pine, East Water, East First and East Ash streets has been reserved for the box factory. At present it is occupied by the small shacks of squatters, who will have to give up their homes when the pile driver commences on the foundation for the box factory. Machinery for the sawmill has been ordered and will soon commence to arrive. This plant will cover about five blocks, which will include the water front and the streets vacated by the city for its use. By the vacation of portions of East Water, East Ash and East Ankeny streets west of East First the company secured a block and a half, which is really valued at about $30,000, and yet the big plant giving employment to 250 men will more than compensate the city for its liberality in the vacation of the streets. Cost of the plant will run up to about $150,000 when it is completed. The sawmill will have a capacity of 100,000 feet a day, most of which will be used in the manufacture of boxes. The concern will very largely export its product. It has the Southern Pacific Railway on its east side, and will be given sidetrack facilities." (Morning Oregonian)
May 25, 1903: "The Standard Box Factory Company is beginning to receive machinery for the large sawmill under construction at the foot of East Ankeny street. Two large boilers have arrived. Two pile drivers have been at work the past week, and over two blocks have been covered and framed for the main mill building has been raised." (Morning Oregonian)
August 20, 1903: "The new sawmill of the Standard Box Factory Company, at the foot of East Ankeny street, is in operation this week. All the machinery is new and must be run for some time before it becomes smooth. Lumber is being turned out which will be used to complete the big plant. The band saw building will be put up next, and then the box factory plant. The later will occupy a block. Much more remains to be done before the entire plant from 75,000 to 100,000 feet of lumber a day." (Morning Oregonian)
September 14, 1903: "The Standard Box Factory Company is clearing away the old elevated roadway on East Ash street, between First and East Water streets, preparatory to putting up drykilns and the buildings required in the new plant. The sawmill is now in operation and turning out lumber. The block between East First and east Water and East Pine and east Ash streets has also been cleared for the box factory building. All the shacks have been removed and the rubbish burned. The sawmill, with its various buildings and the box factory will cover three or four blocks when completed besides the streets vacated by the Council." (Morning Oregonian)