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| Title | Lumber mill crew, including several Asian workers, McCormick Lumber Company, n.d. |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Caption on image: McCormick Lbr. Co. Kinsey Photo. No. 101
PH Coll 516.1886 |
| Contextual Notes | "The McCormick Lumber Company was organized in 1900 ... The present mill ... has a capacity of one hundred and fifty thousand feet of lumber in ten hours. They also built a shingle mill with a capacity of one hundred and forty thousand and their plant includes dry kilns and every modern facility connected with the business. They use power and generate their own electricity for lighting the plant and also for lighting the town. The town of McCormick was built by this company and includes eighty-five houses, each one of which is supplied with electric light and water and has a garden plot. The town has a fully equipped sewer system and the company has commodities and attractive office buildings and also operates its own store. Logging camps are also conducted by the company and they built ten miles of logging road; equipping it with rolling stock. They employ three hundred and ten men in all and they have put forth every effort to make conditions of life sanitary and attractive. A church and a schoolhouse have been built and the social feature has not been neglected here. The company has built a storage reservoir for water which obtained from springs and which is piped all over the plant. The company manufactures all grades of lumber and cross arms and also gets out a fine grade of ship timbers. In a word, theirs is one of the foremost lumber manufacturing enterprises in this section." [Source: Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor. Washington: West of the Cascades. Vol. II. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917. p. 642-643.]
The McCormick Lumber Company was in business until ca. 1936.
McCormick is a community on Rock Creek twenty-six miles southwest of Chehalis in southwest Lewis County. The town once depended on a large sawmill and when the mill cut the available timber the place was nearly abandoned. It was named for Harry W. McCormick, owner of McCormick Lumber Company. Mr. McCormick became post master on May 31, 1899 and the post office continued in operation until July 15, 1929.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Lumber--Washington (State)
Lumber industry--Washington (State)
Charles R. McCormick Lumber Co.--People--Washington (State)
Charles R. McCormick Lumber Co.--Facilities--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Sawmill workers--Washington (State)--Lewis County
Asians--Washington (State)--Lewis County
Sawmills--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 | CKK0325 |
| 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 1886
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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. |
