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| Title | Clemons Logging Company's railroad logging camp 5, near Melbourne, ca. 1930 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1930 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Clemons Log. Co., Camp #5. No. 533
PH Coll 516.559 |
| Contextual Notes | Clemons Logging Company was organized in 1903. Charles H. Clemons was the first president. The company had a logging camp in the Melbourne area. In 1919, the company was consolidated with the Melbourne and North River Railroad Company, an eight mile logging railroad extending from Melbourne to Montesano. In 1919, the company was reorganized as the Clemons Logging Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. The company operated a 75 mile logging railroad in the Montesano area. In 1936, the company was merged into the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. Its locomotives were later sold to the Murphy Lumber Company, Discovery Bay Logging Company, Craig Mountain (Idaho) and West Fork Logging Company. The company was dissolved on June 29, 1937. In 1941, the original logging site was dedicated as the first tree farm in Washington.
Melbourne was a logging center on the Chehalis River seven and a half miles east of Aberdeen in south central Grays Harbor County. It was named for Melbourne, Australia, by Reuben Redmond when he platted the town in the late 1850s. Redmond was a father-in-law of Samuel Benn who founded Aberdeen in the same period.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Lumber camps--Washington (State)
Lumber industry--Washington (State)
Railroad tracks--Washington (State)
Cutover lands--Washington (State)
Clemons Logging Company--Facilities--Washington (State)
Grays Harbor County (Wash.)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Slash (Logging)--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK02067 |
| 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 559
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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 9800XL at 100 ppi in grayscale. Resized using Adobe Photoshop 8.0 so that the long dimension was either 768 pixels horizontal or 600 pixels vertical, then saved in JPEG format at quality rating 3. 2004 |
