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| Title | Logging crew at yarding operation using a Caterpillar tractor and log yoke, West Fork Logging Company, ca. 1939 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1939 |
| Notes | Caption on image: West Fork Timber Co., Side No. 2. Kinsey Photo No. 11
PH Coll 516.4657 |
| Contextual Notes | The West Fork Logging Company was started by L.T. Murray in 1910. It was named for the company's first quarter section of timber which was located at the west fork of the Tilton River in Lewis County. By the latter part of the 1930s, Murray's holdings totaled 38,000 acres. West Fork Timber Company was created as a holding company for the purchase of land. Company headquarters were located in Mineral. L.T. Murray was very active in the logging industry and the Pacific Logging Congress. West Fork Timber Company sold its logging operations to St. Regis Paper Company in 1943.
A small logging and shingle mill village on Mineral Lake is fourteen miles north of Morton in north central Lewis County. Once it had several producing mines the ore from which was used for production of arsenic. It was named for mineral deposits along Mineral Creek, and producing mines a half dozen miles from the town.
L.T. Murray began using Caterpillar tractors in 1936.
A "side" is a logging unit, the workers and equipment needed to yard and load any one unit of operation.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Loggers
Logs
Railroad cars--Washington (State)
Lumber industry--Washington (State)
West Fork Logging Company--People--Washington (State)
West Fork Logging Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
Lewis County (Wash.)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Caterpillar tractors
Crawler tractors--Washington (State)--Lewis County
Yarding (Logging)--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 | CKK0891 |
| 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 4657
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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. |
