KRUSE LUMBER COMPANY
Swan Lake
Continued from: DeArmond Brothers Lumber Company
April 1, 1921: "Two saw mills and approximately 15,000,000 feet of timber were involved in a deal completed yesterday, by which A.E. Kruse of Portland, becomes owner of the D'Armond Brothers plant in the Swan Lake District.
Each of the two mills has a daily capacity of about(????????) feet. It is the plan of the purchaser to overhaul the plants at once, make improvements in the equipment and have the mills running by April 15.
Mr. Kruse is an experienced lumberman and at one time operated mill in the Coos Bay district. For the past four years he has been one of the representatives of the United States shipping board in the Portland district.
The transaction between the D'Armond brothers and Kruse was negotiated by the Klamath Lumber agency, of which George A. Stephenson is manager." (The Evening Herald)
Each of the two mills has a daily capacity of about(????????) feet. It is the plan of the purchaser to overhaul the plants at once, make improvements in the equipment and have the mills running by April 15.
Mr. Kruse is an experienced lumberman and at one time operated mill in the Coos Bay district. For the past four years he has been one of the representatives of the United States shipping board in the Portland district.
The transaction between the D'Armond brothers and Kruse was negotiated by the Klamath Lumber agency, of which George A. Stephenson is manager." (The Evening Herald)
October 13, 1922: "A.E. Kruse, of the Kruse Lumber company, is a business visitor here from Swan lake today. He is stopping at the White Pelican hotel." (The Evening Herald)
April 9, 1925: "A.E. Kruse of the Klamath Lumber company whose mill is located near the Swan Lake country, spent the day in Klamath falls Wednesday, transacting business and looking into general affairs." (The Evening Herald)
July 17, 1925: "AD. "WANTED--Truck to haul logs by thousand. Kruse Lumber Co." (The Klamath News)
August 1925: "Kruse Lumber Co., Klamath Falls, is cutting about 20,000 feet per day. Big Lakes Box Co. takes the output." (The Timberman)
September 9, 1925: "A force draft device for sawdust and refuse burners, declared by prominent millmen to be the most significant improvement ever made, has been recently patented by A. Kruse, owner and manager of the Kruse Lumber company, situated on Swan Lake mountain.
The device requires no grate bars or drafts in the bottom, and the burner need not be built to such heights as are necessary with the suction draft, grate bar type of burner.
Kruse's invention consists of a heavy, iron water jacket, which extends to the exact center of the furnace. Inside of this water jacket is a nozzle which delivers the forced draft to the burner. This nozzle is fed by a motor and blower outside of the burner some six or eight feet, and nozzle, blower, and motor are mounted on a track, so that the intensity of the forced draft may be regulated by the distance of the nozzle from the core of the heap of sawdust and refuse in the burner. There is considerable space between the sliding nozzle and the protecting waterjacket which takes up the force of the air draft when it is not needed.
The advantages of the invention are that it enables a smaller and less expensive type of burner to handle unlimited amounts of green sawdust with greater facility than the costly open grate type. The fire is started in the center of the pile, and kept burning by the force of the draft until the heap of refuse crumbles in from the top. Then the draft may be reduced, so as not to force soot and sparks out through the top of the burner, as is the case with high, open grate type of burner." (The Evening Herald)
The device requires no grate bars or drafts in the bottom, and the burner need not be built to such heights as are necessary with the suction draft, grate bar type of burner.
Kruse's invention consists of a heavy, iron water jacket, which extends to the exact center of the furnace. Inside of this water jacket is a nozzle which delivers the forced draft to the burner. This nozzle is fed by a motor and blower outside of the burner some six or eight feet, and nozzle, blower, and motor are mounted on a track, so that the intensity of the forced draft may be regulated by the distance of the nozzle from the core of the heap of sawdust and refuse in the burner. There is considerable space between the sliding nozzle and the protecting waterjacket which takes up the force of the air draft when it is not needed.
The advantages of the invention are that it enables a smaller and less expensive type of burner to handle unlimited amounts of green sawdust with greater facility than the costly open grate type. The fire is started in the center of the pile, and kept burning by the force of the draft until the heap of refuse crumbles in from the top. Then the draft may be reduced, so as not to force soot and sparks out through the top of the burner, as is the case with high, open grate type of burner." (The Evening Herald)
Continued to: DeArmond Mill