AMERICAN BOX COMPANY
Sprague River
Continued from: Crater Lake Lumber Company
August 4, 1943: "Crater Lake Lumber company's box factory at Sprague River has been purchased by the American Box corporation of San Francisco, which will conduct box shook manufacturing operation at the east Klamath plant, it was announced Tuesday.
P.M. Cowbrough, former sales manager for the Crater Lake Lumber company, is resident manager of the new operation, and announced the transaction. G.C. Lorenz, head of the Crater Lake Lumber company, confirmed the sale.
Cowbrough said the plant is already employing from 50 to 60 men. An active manufacturing program is planned, using first several million feet of lumber purchased from the Crater Lake Lumber company at Sprague River. The new owners will buy other lumber in the open market for the factory operations later on, and may install more machinery and extend the plant.
The deal included warehouses and planing mill facilities at Sprague River formerly owned by the Crater Lake Lumber company.
Lorenz stated that the Crater Lake mill at Sprague River is being dismantled and the machinery sold. The new program of the American Box corporation, however, will keep Sprague River in the picture as an active industrial community.
O.W. Ludwig, former box factory foreman for Crater Lake, is the new superintendent for American Box." (Herald and News)
P.M. Cowbrough, former sales manager for the Crater Lake Lumber company, is resident manager of the new operation, and announced the transaction. G.C. Lorenz, head of the Crater Lake Lumber company, confirmed the sale.
Cowbrough said the plant is already employing from 50 to 60 men. An active manufacturing program is planned, using first several million feet of lumber purchased from the Crater Lake Lumber company at Sprague River. The new owners will buy other lumber in the open market for the factory operations later on, and may install more machinery and extend the plant.
The deal included warehouses and planing mill facilities at Sprague River formerly owned by the Crater Lake Lumber company.
Lorenz stated that the Crater Lake mill at Sprague River is being dismantled and the machinery sold. The new program of the American Box corporation, however, will keep Sprague River in the picture as an active industrial community.
O.W. Ludwig, former box factory foreman for Crater Lake, is the new superintendent for American Box." (Herald and News)