Crew with donkey engine, camp 2, Simpson Logging Company, near Matlock, ca. 1927
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Created Date | 1927~ |
Description | Sol G. Simpson and his family moved to Mason County in 1887, where Simpson worked laying ties and rails for the Port Blakely Mill Company's logging railroad. He formed S. G. Simpson Company in Matlock in 1890. Three of Simpson's brothers joined him in Mason County, and two of them worked for him. Simpson Logging Company opened its first sawmill, the Reed Mill, at Shelton in 1925. Numerous other mills and logging operations along the West Coast have been acquired by Simpson over the years. [Source: James, David. Grisdale: Last of the Logging Camp. Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1986.]Camp no. 2 was located on Scotts Prairie, southwest of Matlock, and was in existence from 1925 to 1930, when it and camp no. 1 were merged into camp no. 3. |
Creator | Kinsey, Clark |
Partner | University of Washington |
Contributing Institution | University of Washington |
Subjects | Loggers; Steam donkeys--Washington (State); Railroad cars--Washington (State); Lumber industry--Washington (State); Simpson Logging Company--People--Washington (State); Simpson Logging Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State); Mason County (Wash.) |
Location | United States--Washington (State)--Mason County--Matlock |
Type | image |
Format | Photograph image 11 x 14 in. Silver gelatin, b/w Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 ppi in grayscale. Resized using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 so that the long dimension was either 768 pixels horizontal or 600 pixels vertical, then saved in JPEG format at quality rating 3. 2004 |
URL | http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/clarkkinsey/id/1650 |
Rights | For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Reproduction & Use page: http://content.lib.washington.edu/sc-use.html |
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- Kinsey, Clark. Crew with donkey engine, camp 2, Simpson Logging Company, near Matlock, ca. 1927. 1927~. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/clarkkinsey/id/1650. (Accessed April 26, 2018.)
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- Kinsey, Clark, (1927~) Crew with donkey engine, camp 2, Simpson Logging Company, near Matlock, ca. 1927. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/clarkkinsey/id/1650
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