Fairview Cheese Company Record Book and Ledger
by Fairview Cheese Company
Fairview, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
A hardcover ledger with "Record" stamped on the front. The pages contain accounting of costs and sales made by the Fairview Cheese Company (later known as the Fairview Cheese Manufacturing Company). The first entry was made by company owners H. C. Campbell, Rufus Mallory, and C. F. Swigert on July 1, 1901. Entries date from July 1901 to December 1903.
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- Description
- A hardcover ledger with "Record" stamped on the front. The pages contain accounting of costs and sales made by the Fairview Cheese Company (later known as the Fairview Cheese Manufacturing Company). The first entry was made by company owners H. C. Campbell, Rufus Mallory, and C. F. Swigert on July 1, 1901. Entries date from July 1901 to December 1903.
- Provenance
- Found in collections. The three owners of the cheese company were Oregon businessmen - Swigert was a renowned civil engineer involved in the construction of many bridges on the West Coast, he and Campbell owned the City & Suburban Railway Company and were President and Secretary of the Pacific Bridge Company, respectively. Mallory was a long-practicing attorney with a number of business interests across Oregon. Campbell managed the cheese factory in Fairview, a city in eastern Multnomah County, until December 1903 when he sold it to the Portland Dairy Association. Contemporary news articles about the company were largely focused on the benefits it had to the dairy industry in the Columbia Slough area, with many local farmers allegedly increasing their dairy herds to supply the factory with milk. At its peak the factory shipped over 4000 pounds of cheese a week. The factory was involved in a scandal with the State Dairy and Food Commission in late 1902 and early 1903, when a tuberculosis outbreak at John Thomas' dairy farm, which supplied significant amounts of the factory's milk, led to Thomas no longer being permitted to sell milk to a cheese factory in Portland - however, he continued to sell potentially infected milk to the Fairview Cheese Company, which continued to make cheese with it. Shortly after this, skimmed cheese from the factory that hadn't been appropriately branded to indicate it wasn't made with whole milk was seized by the Commission. Neither event seemed to seriously impact the company, although it may have played a role in Campbell's sale in December 1903.
- Creator
- Fairview Cheese Company
- Campbell, H.C.
- Mallory, Rufus
- Swigert, C.F.
- Subject
- Campbell, H.C.
- Mallory, Rufus
- Swigert, C. F.
- Thomas, John
- Carlson, R. R.
- Cheese
- Recording & registration
- Factories
- Business enterprises
- Dairy products
- Dairy products industry
- Accounting
- Location
- Fairview, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Identifier
- 2023.001.0131
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Ledger
- Type
- Text
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
