WESTERN COOPERAGE
Houlton
November 13, 1903: “It is now a settled fact that the Western Cooperage Company, composed of Kentucky capitalists, will build a large stave factory at Houlton, on the Northern Pacific railroad, just on the outer edge of the corporate limits of St. Helens. A dozen men are already at work getting camps ready in the woods, where the bolts for the staves will be cut up and split into the usual size.
A factory site has been purchased from W. H. Dolman, at Houlton, which has ample space for switches and side tracks. Options have been secured on several tracts of timber land, and a contract has been entered into with the Oregon Wood Company to float down 800,000 cords of stave bolts annually. Construction work will begin on the factory at once, and the management state that fully one hundred men will be employed in the mill and timber.
This company owns factories in Kentucky, Arkansas, Georgia and at Seattle and Aberdeen, Wash.” (The Glendale News)
A factory site has been purchased from W. H. Dolman, at Houlton, which has ample space for switches and side tracks. Options have been secured on several tracts of timber land, and a contract has been entered into with the Oregon Wood Company to float down 800,000 cords of stave bolts annually. Construction work will begin on the factory at once, and the management state that fully one hundred men will be employed in the mill and timber.
This company owns factories in Kentucky, Arkansas, Georgia and at Seattle and Aberdeen, Wash.” (The Glendale News)