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HUMBOLDT COOPERAGE CO. - Established in 1903 on a small scale with a capacity of from twelve to fifteen thousand
feet every ten hours; by subsequent steady growth the Humboldt Cooperage Company has increased to a capacity of
fifty thousand feet and furnishes employment to one hundred and fifteen persons in the factory besides twenty five
men in the woods. Seven miles east of the main plant in Arcata is located the stave bolt plant. After the logs
have been brought to the landing, the drag saw cuts them into proper bolt lengths, and they are then loaded on
cars and brought over the company's tracks to Essex, thence by the Northwestern Pacific Railroad to the Arcata
plant, where they are sawed into staves and heading. From the spruce and fir are manufactured staves that are shipped
to San Francisco and there put together into barrels intended for all purposes, containers for liquid and dry products
such as oils, asphaltum, sugar, butter, fish and fruit, and into pails for candy and other articles. The field
of operation is being enlarged through effective salesmanship, the firm having an able representative in Henry
Koster, through whom arrangements are being made to ship the products to the Orient.
From the beginning there has been a steady improvement in the plant at Arcata. It has been the aim of the management
to keep in touch with every modern facility for the increasing of the output and the reducing of the expense of
manufacture. An electric power system has been installed and modern machinery of original design introduced to
render efficient and effective the output of the factory. There are not wanting many who insist that, without a
single exception, this is the best equipped plant of its kind in the United States. Much of the credit for the
individually efficient and mechanically modern cooperage with electric drive throughout and the best facilities
of the century in every department, may be given to the vice president and general manager, Julius J. Krohn, a
native son born in what is now Madera county, Cal. Before coming to Arcata he was associated with the California
Barrel Company of San Francisco and thus gained a wide and valuable experience in the line of cooperage. In addition
to the business, which he manages with keen intelligence and sagacious judgment, he is aiding in the material upbuilding
of Humboldt county through personal efforts neither few nor small and as a member of the Humboldt Promotion and
Development Committee and Chamber of Commerce of Arcata, as well as Humboldt Chamber of Commerce of Eureka, occupying
a place of recognized importance among the public spirited men seeking the development of local resources. Associated
with him in the financial guidance of the growing business are the following gentlemen: C. L. Koster, president;
W. B. Sweet, secretary; H. A. Koster, Gen. John A. Koster, F. J. Koster and J. H. Day, constituting with the officers
the directorate of the concern. Throughout this section of the state the corporation has gained a reputation for
reliability in business transactions, breadth of commercial vision and tact in dealing with customers, employes
and other business concerns of the state, and the solid reputation already established may be regarded as prophetic
of future growth and continued development.
From:
History of Humboldt County, California
With a Biographical Sketches
History by Leigh H. Irving
Historic Record Company
Los Angeles, California 1915
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