To operate a sawmill the following resources are required:ġ. The Associated Lumber & Box Company at Sandy Gulch was one of those sawmills (Calaveras Prospect 1942 Calaveras Weekly 1942). One order alone was for a million 75-mm shell crates! To meet increasing demand, ABC continued to expand and by 1944 it had eight sawmills, nine box factories, one veneer plant, twenty-six shook warehouses and five sales offices (American Eagle 1944c). Everything that was shipped required wooden boxes and there were large orders for locker, ration, ammunition, and bomb boxes. ABC supplied lumber for military cantonments and other Government construction worldwide.
When the United States entered WWII in 1941, ABC was in a position for rapid expansion to supply both shook and lumber to the military and civilian markets (American Eagle 1944b). ABC prospered and met customer demand by building sawmills to guarantee a supply of lumber for their box factories and a network of warehouses to sell both shook (pieces for building boxes) and nailed boxes. Johnson became a partner and he grew the corporation into a major business operating out of four states that eventually evolved into American Forest Products Corporation. American Box Corporation facility at Sandy Gulch, 1950s, view to northwest (courtesy Pat Blagen Bradley).Īround 1909, Horace Tarter and Bert Webster created the American Box Corporation (ABC) in Stockton, supplying boxes and crates for fresh, dried and canned fruits and vegetables (American Eagle 1944).
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