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| Title | Skeleton railroad cars loaded with logs on trestle, West Fork Logging Company, Mineral, ca. 1935 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1935 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Murray Logging & Timber Co., Mineral, Wn. C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 5x
PH Coll 516.2140 |
| Contextual Notes | L.T. Murray moved the operations of his West Fork Logging Company to Mineral in 1927. He bought out the Mineral Lake Lumber Company at that time and set about creating a model permanent logging camp. He remodeled old buildings and built new ones and established lawns and flower beds and a yearly painting schedule. He provided steam heated railroad cars to take his crews to and from the logging sites and had a hot lunch taken out to the crews each day. St. Regis Paper Company bought out the West Fork Logging Company's operation in Mineral in 1943.
Mineral is a small logging and shingle mill village on Mineral Lake, 14 miles north of Morton in north central Lewis County. Once it had several producing mines, the ore from which was used for production of arsenic. It was named for mineral deposits along Mineral Creek, and producing mines a half dozen miles from the town.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Logs
Trestles--Washington (State)
Railroad tracks--Washington (State)
Railroad cars--Washington (State)
West Fork Logging Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Logging railroads--Washington (State)--Lewis County
Slash (Logging)--Washington (State)--Lewis County
Logging--Washington (State)--Lewis County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)-- Lewis County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0415 |
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| Negative Number | C. Kinsey 2140
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection. PH Coll 516
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b/w ; 11 x 14 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003. |
