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| Title | Logging crew loading flatbed railroad cars using donkey engine, Fortson Logging Company, ca. 1917 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1917 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Fortson Logging Co., Darrington, Wash. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 3
PH Coll 516.1303 |
| Contextual Notes | The Fortson Logging Company was in business from ca. 1913 to ca. 1922, headquartered in Darrington.
Darrington is a logging and sawmill community on the Sauk River nearly thirty miles east of Arlington in north central Snohomish County. It was a meeting place for Indian tribes in early days. From there five trails lead into the high mountains. Early names for this place were Sauk Portage and The Burn. The former related to a river portage and the latter to forest fires. In 1891, settlers decided on a name by flipping a card which carried the name Portage on one side and Barrington, the name of an early settler, on the other. Legend says that Barrington's name was on both sides of the card. That name won, but later became twisted to the present name when a post office was established in 1894.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Loggers
Logs
Steam donkeys--Washington (State)
Lumber industry--Washington (State)
Forston Logging Company--People--Washington (State)
Snohomish County (Wash.)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Spartrees--Washington (State)--Snohomish County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Snohomish County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0226 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | C. Kinsey 1303
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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. |
