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Logging to the Salt Chuck by John T Labbe & Peter J Replinger w dust jacket
Logging to the Salt Chuck by John T Labbe & Peter J Replinger
Hard Cover w/Dust jacket REFLECTIONS FROM light on some photos
186 pages
Copyright 1990
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgementsvi
Introduction vii
Chapter 1The Puget Sound & Grays Harbor Railroad 1
Chapter 2Getting Up Steam6
Satsop Railroad Company7
Chapter 3The Kneeland Road12
Mason County Central Rail Road 13
Shelton Southwestern Railroad 13
Chapter 4The Blakely Railroad 16
Chapter 5Off and Running28
Simpson Logging Company29
Peninsular Railway Company35
Chapter 6Neighborly Cooperation48
Mason County Logging Company49
Western Washington Logging Company52
Ellis & Reed53
Shelton Logging Company53
Chapter 7A Period of Transition 56
Peninsular Railway Company57
Chapter 8The Phoenix Logging Company62
Chapter 9The Age of Steam76
Chapter 10The Diesel Age 102
Chapter 11The Annie & Mary120
Arcata & Mad River Railroad 120
Northern Redwood Lumber Company 121
Simpson Redwood Company 121
Chapter 12Odds and Ends130
APPENDIX
LOCOMOTIVE ROSTERS141
DRAWINGS -
Gibson #117 Speeder 159
Simpson #500 caboose 161
Simpson flatcar 161
Simpson #1201 SW1200 163
Simpson #12 2-8-2T 164
Clyde Tracklaying Machine 166
Simpson PC&F 16-wheel moving car 168
Camp Grisdale 1947 171
Baldwin proposal card - simple 2-6-6-2T 172
Bibliography 174
Index 175
MAPS
Peninsular Railway endpapers
Period railroad mapsFirst page of each chapter 1 through 8
Western Mason - Eastern Grays Harbor Counties railroad grades74
INTRODUCTION
This book seeks to present the story of the railroads that made possible the development of the great timber resources of Mason County and the Lower Olympic Peninsula in the State of Washington, and of the company that has, for more than a century, nurtured and refined those resources into a sustained yield timber operation. Since 1885, logs from Simpson operations have come rumbling down the rails from the big forests to be splashed into the Salt Chuck, as the local Indians termed the salt waters of Puget Sound. Over the years much has changed. New methods have been developed for harvesting the trees, and new uses have expanded the value of the wood. But the trains continue to roll down from the timber with their cargoes of logs, as the company enters its second century.
The discovery of gold in California in 1848 triggered a massive migration to the western frontier. As the tide of new settlers surged into the undeveloped regions west of the Rocky Mountains, the demand for shelter and for the accompanying accoutrements of civilization put a severe strain on the primitive lumber industry of the Pacific Coast.
In California, the available supply of timber lay in the Sierra Madre Mountains, or along the forbidding coastline north of San Francisco Bay. Neither source was readily available to the growing urban centers. Recognizing the opportunity, skippers from New England, where forest products had long provided the bulk of their cargoes, quickly moved to fill the void. Sailing north to Puget Sound they found an unending supply of trees. Here on these sheltered waters were miles and miles of shoreline, and everywhere the virgin stands of fir, hemlock and cedar stretched inland from the water's edge as far as the eye could see. The loggers had but to cut the logs and roll them into the water, from whence they could be towed to any mill on the Sound.
By the early 1850s a number of mills were gaining a foothold-mills that in many cases were destined to become important factors in the economy of the region. As the early mills prospered, they grew in size and importance. In time their production outstripped the needs of the new West and began to provide cargoes for export. Lumber from the Pacific Northwest was finding new markets in South America, Hawaii and Australia, providing a welcome business for the ships that brought the necessities and luxuries of civilization from the East. No longer did the ships have to leave the West Coast in ballast.
Once under way, the development of the West was rapid. Cities sprang up, providing a haven for new industries. The success of the forest industry attracted more and more mills from across the Rockies, and soon the supply of timber that had seemed so inexhaustible was receding even further from the shoreline. The completion of the transcontinental railroads expanded the markets for lumber still further, and the more farsighted loggers were investing in stands of timber for the future. With the adoption of the railroads to move their products, the lumbermen were no longer dependent on water transport. By the 1880s the complexion of the industry was changing rapidly, and the last undeveloped corners of the land were submitting to the Industrial Revolution.
John Labbe
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