|
| Title | Mason County Logging Company's three-truck Shay locomotive no. 1, with crew, crossing railroad trestle, probably at Bordeaux, ca.1932 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1932 |
| Notes | Caption on image: C. Kinsey Photo No. 9
PH Coll 516.2020 |
| Contextual Notes | The Mason County Logging Company was incorporated on August 2, 1892 by Mark Draham and the Bordeaux brothers. They operated camps along the Washington Southern Railway line and near Isabella Lake, on the Shelton Southwestern Railway line. Later the base of operations moved to the Black Hills area southwest of Olympia, with a camp at Shelton. By 1924, Mason County Logging Company was headquartered at Bordeaux. The company closed ca. 1941.
Bordeaux was a community on Mima Creek and Mima Prairie a dozen miles southwest of Olympia in southwest Thurston County. Once a logging and sawmill town, it suffered from the depletion of local timber resources and now is a scattered settlement. In 1900, it was named for Tom Bordeaux, manager of Mumby Lumber & Shingle Company. A post office was established in 1903 and was closed on February of 1942.
|
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Logs
Railroad locomotives--Washington (State)
Trestles--Washington (State)
Railroad bridges--Washington (State)
Cutover lands--Washington (State)
Mason County Logging Comapny--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
|
| Subjects (LCSH) | Shay locomotives
Logging railroads--Washington (State)--Thurston County
Slash (Logging)--Washington (State)--Thurston County
Logging--Washington (State)--Thurston County
|
| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Thurston County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
|
| Order Number | CKK0372 |
| 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 2020
|
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection. PH Coll 516
|
| 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. |
