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Construction crew with pile driver and trestle under construction, Mutual Lumber Company, Bucoda, ca. 1930
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| Title | Construction crew with pile driver and trestle under construction, Mutual Lumber Company, Bucoda, ca. 1930 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1930 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Mutual Lmbr Co., Bucoda. C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 17
PH Coll 516.2156 |
| Contextual Notes | The first mill was built in Bucoda in 1857 by Aaron Webster. It was purchased in 1902 by a consortium of Martin Foard, Frank R. Stokes, W.W. Whipple and F.D. Butzer, who founded the Mutual Lumber Company. The company produced 120,000 board-feet of lumber per day, but the mill burned down in 1912. Mutual Lumber moved its operation to Tenino until 1919, when it rebuilt the operation in Bucoda. By 1922, the town was dubbed "the little town with the million-dollar payroll" due to Mutual production, which built a hotel and housing for its workers. The last log was sawed in Bucoda in 1944.
Bucoda is on the Skookumchuck River, 18 miles south of Olympia, in south central Thurston County. It was named Seatco in 1873 by Northern Pacific Railway officials. This Indian name means ghost or devil. In 1890, the Territorial Legislature changed it to the present name. Bucoda is a combination of the first 2 letters in the last names of 3 men: James M. Buckley, division superintendent of Northern Pacific Railway; Samuel Colter, a coal mine promoter; and John D. David, a capitalist from Portland, Oregon.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Pile drivers
Trestles--Washington (State)
Railroad construction workers
Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)
Lumber industry--Washington (State)
Mutual Lumber Company--People--Washington (State)
Mutual Lumber Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
Thurston County (Wash.)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)-- Thurston County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0419 |
| 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 2156
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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. |
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