CHELSEA LUMBER & BOX COMPANY
Lake Ewauna
December 29, 1916: "With Horace Dunlap, H.C. Merryman and C.B. Browne as incorporators, the Chelsea Lumber company of Klamath Falls has been formed with a capitalization of $50,000. Articles of incorporation have been filed in Salem.
It is the intention of the company, according to Mr. Dunlap, to build a mill next spring, possibly on Upper Klamath Lake, although plans as yet are indefinite." (The Evening Herald)
It is the intention of the company, according to Mr. Dunlap, to build a mill next spring, possibly on Upper Klamath Lake, although plans as yet are indefinite." (The Evening Herald)
February 2, 1917: “Last week the Chelsea Lumber and Box Company selected a site just north of the fair grounds where they have an option on 20 acres. Early next spring the company expect to erect an up to date box factory. A three cut off mill will be installed and will be designed that the capacity can be enlarged at will.
The new company will start with a payroll of 35 men, and if the plans of the company work out, in time it will employ a much larger number.” (The Weekly Klamath Record)
The new company will start with a payroll of 35 men, and if the plans of the company work out, in time it will employ a much larger number.” (The Weekly Klamath Record)
February 3, 1917: "The Chelsea Lumber and Box Company has announced the purchase of a mill site, adjoining the old Fair Grounds, three miles south of Klamath Falls on Lake Ewauna.
The company will soon begin its cutting season June 1st. The plant will have a capacity of 50,000 feet per day, and will employ in the neighborhood of fifty men. The site is close to the Southern Pacific lines." (The Sacramento Bee)
The company will soon begin its cutting season June 1st. The plant will have a capacity of 50,000 feet per day, and will employ in the neighborhood of fifty men. The site is close to the Southern Pacific lines." (The Sacramento Bee)
April 18, 1917: "The backers of the Chelsea box factory, for which a site has been secured at the lower end of Lake Ewauna, announce that as soon as the weather permits construction will be started on this mill." (The Evening Herald)
May 13, 1917: "Construction work on the Chelsea Lumber & Box company at the lower end of Lake Ewauna, a mile south from Klamath Falls, has commenced under the management of Superintendent C.F. Setzer and will be pushed forward rapidly with the idea of starting operations by June 15." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
June 15, 1917: “The Chelsea Box Company that has been erecting a new plant near the fair grounds now has most of the machinery in place and will be ready to start within the next ten days. This plant will employ 35 men and is the fifth box factory in Klamath Falls and vicinity.” (The Weekly Klamath Record)
July 24, 1917: "The new Chelsea Lumber and Box company is now in full operation, with every indication of a successful year's run, according to Manager C.F. Setzer, who declares that the greatest handicap to the business here is lack of saw mills to provide more material. To provide against this, the Chelsea company plans to construct a mill of their own near the box factory another year, and saw their own lumber.
The new mill now employs thirty men, and eight or ten more will be added to the force in a short time.
The factory is now operating four cutoffs, and has a daily capacity of about 60,000 feet. An up-to-date blow system has been installed, however, to take care of six cutoffs, and Mt. Setzer declares that with a few minor changes and machinery additions the output of the plant will be as great as any box factory in this district.
More orders are available than can be taken care of at this time, and there seems to be every indication that the market will continue active.
Altho the factory started up with a small force, more than six cars have been shipped thus far, and the output from now on will be more than a carload a day." (The Evening Herald)
The new mill now employs thirty men, and eight or ten more will be added to the force in a short time.
The factory is now operating four cutoffs, and has a daily capacity of about 60,000 feet. An up-to-date blow system has been installed, however, to take care of six cutoffs, and Mt. Setzer declares that with a few minor changes and machinery additions the output of the plant will be as great as any box factory in this district.
More orders are available than can be taken care of at this time, and there seems to be every indication that the market will continue active.
Altho the factory started up with a small force, more than six cars have been shipped thus far, and the output from now on will be more than a carload a day." (The Evening Herald)
September 5, 1917: "Klamath Falls Herald: The present serious shortage of labor and the fact that this condition is likely to become more stringent in the near future, rather than remedied, has resulted in the employment of the first women at local box factories. There are three of these now employed at the Chelsea Box company of this city, a strong probability of more being added in the near future." (Morning Register)
November 8, 1917: "Curtis F. Setzer, superintendent of the Chelsea Lumber company, left yesterday for San Francisco on a business trip." (The Evening Herald)
March 9, 1918: "Sawmills and box factories at Klamath Falls begin the eight hour day here tomorrow. Altho the announcement has not been made by every factory, the larger concerns this afternoon gave out the information, and it is expected that every industry here will adopt the schedule.
Mills to conform to the new regime include the Chelsea Box company." (The Evening Herald)
Mills to conform to the new regime include the Chelsea Box company." (The Evening Herald)
July 5, 1918: "Promptly after filing the first tariff of the Klamath Falls Municipal Railway with the Interstate Commerce Commission of Oregon, the first two carloads of freight were loaded at Olene, 12 miles east of here, and brought to this city for delivery at the plants of the Chelsea Box and Lumber Company on the Southern Pacific a few miles south of this city.
The shipment consisted of lumber sold by De Armand and W. Weston from their mill in Swan Lake Valley, about eight miles beyond the temporary terminal of the line at Olene.
The lumber came in on the first equipment built for the line, flat cars Nos. 301 and 304. Locomotive No. 1, on this occasion, was driven by W.E. Bond, and was fired by Gus Eittrem. They justly feel proud of the honor of officiating on this first trip of a freight train over the line." (The Sacramento Bee)
The shipment consisted of lumber sold by De Armand and W. Weston from their mill in Swan Lake Valley, about eight miles beyond the temporary terminal of the line at Olene.
The lumber came in on the first equipment built for the line, flat cars Nos. 301 and 304. Locomotive No. 1, on this occasion, was driven by W.E. Bond, and was fired by Gus Eittrem. They justly feel proud of the honor of officiating on this first trip of a freight train over the line." (The Sacramento Bee)
January 17, 1919: “The Chelsea box factory has completed a new office building on their grounds near the factory and will move into the new quarters this week. A new warehouse 40 by 96 feet is also being constructed which will be ready for occupancy soon.” (The Weekly Klamath Record)
January 21, 1919: "The following officers were elected at the annual stockholders meeting of the Chelsea Lumber and Box Company last evening J.U. Minor, President, Charles E. Riley, Vice-president, N.E. McClory, secretary-treasurer and C.F. Setzer, general manager." (The Evening Herald)
February 26, 1919: "C.F. Setzer of the Chelsea Lumber and Box company left on the train this morning for San Francisco, where he expects to remain for about a week. Mrs. Setzer is now in the city, and will probably return with him." (The Evening Herald)
May 5, 1919: "Four of the Klamath Falls precincts have now gone over the top with their Victory Loan quotas and the city as a whole is very near the mark set of $142,400, with $134,900. according to City Chairman A.H. Collier, this morning.
The Chelsea Lumber and Box company is the first of the industrial precincts to report its quota raised." (The Evening Herald)
The Chelsea Lumber and Box company is the first of the industrial precincts to report its quota raised." (The Evening Herald)
January 15, 1920: "C.F. Setzer, of the Chelsea Lumber and Box company, returned last night from San Francisco. Mr. Setzer states that while the box shook market is a little quiet just now, he has hopes that it will pick up as the season advances and that the business for the coming year will be on a par with that of the past year." (The Evening Herald)
February 14, 1920: "Although stockholders in the Chelsea Box Company refuse to confirm the report that controlling interest in the corporation has been acquired by the Growers' Packing and Warehouse Company of San Jose, Cal., indications point to the deal having taken place.
This transaction would make the local box plant the manufacturing center for all the box shook used by the California company in its fruit distributing industry." (The Sacramento Bee)
This transaction would make the local box plant the manufacturing center for all the box shook used by the California company in its fruit distributing industry." (The Sacramento Bee)
February 20, 1920: "In the matter of the purchasing of 50 cords of block wood from the Chelsea Box Factory.
It was decided by the Court to purchase from the Chelsea Box factory, 50 cords of block wood at $2.25 per cord, at the Company Mill, near Klamath Falls, Oregon, and the Clerk is, Hereby ordered to draw a warrant on the Current Expense Fund of the county, in favor of Chelsea Box Co., in the sum of $112.50." (The Evening Herald)
It was decided by the Court to purchase from the Chelsea Box factory, 50 cords of block wood at $2.25 per cord, at the Company Mill, near Klamath Falls, Oregon, and the Clerk is, Hereby ordered to draw a warrant on the Current Expense Fund of the county, in favor of Chelsea Box Co., in the sum of $112.50." (The Evening Herald)
June 30, 1920: "Resolution of dissolution has been filed by the Chelsea Lumber & Box company of Klamath Falls." (The Oregon Daily Journal)
August 1920: "Chelsea Lumber & Box Co., of Klamath Falls, is contemplating building a sawmill. The company is manufacturing boxes." (The Timberman, Vol. )