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| Title | Choker setters sitting on log, Walville Lumber Company, ca. 1919 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1919 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Walville Lumber Co. C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 91
PH Coll 516.4554 |
| Contextual Notes | The town of Walville is located in Lewis County, 4 miles southwest of Pe Ell on the Pacific County border. It was originally called Rock Creek and was the site of the Rock Creek Lumber Company. Later it took its name from its founders, Michigan lumbermen Walworth and Neville Wallville. The town began in 1898 and folded in 1930. The company town probably supported about 200 persons and attained some fame for the large hex symbol of an arched black cat that adorned the mill gate. Utilizing Japanese millhands on the nightshift, the Wallville mill counted 74 Japanese workers in 1909. The sawmill was located at the base of a ravine along the railroad tracks. The town of shacks, bunkhouses, and mill office-store was sited across the tracks within the Y formed by Rock and Salmon creeks. The school and several houses once stood about 200 yards west along the south side of the present highway. [Source: Erickson, Kenneth A. Lumber Ghosts: A Travel Guide to the Historic Lumber Towns of the Pacific Northwest. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Co., 1994
A rigger, or choker setter, is the person who puts a choker around a log and attaches it to the skidding or yarding equipment.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Loggers
Logs
Lumber industry--Washington (State)
Walville Lumber Company--People--Washington (State)
Cowlitz County (Wash.)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Lewis County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0882 |
| 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 4554
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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. |
