Railroad camp no. 6, St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, near Voight Creek, ca. 1932
Created Date | 1932~ |
Description | On June 4, 1888, the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. incorporates. The incorporators are lumber and real estate magnates who arrive that day by train from Minnesota and Wisconsin. The next day Tacoma headlines shout the event: "The monster milling company of Tacoma organized." The firm, known locally as the St. Paul, spurs what the historian Murray Morgan calls the greatest boom in Tacoma's history. Before the firm was incorporated these entrepreneurs had purchased 80,000 acres of Pierce County timberland, mostly Douglas fir, from the Northern Pacific Railroad's land grant. They had received from the Railroad a small island on the Tacoma waterfront called "the boot," and had purchased other land as well. By 1889, they had built the mill, laid tracks into the forest, established camps and skidroads, and were transporting 50 carloads of logs a day into Tacoma for processing. The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company was in business until 1947, when it was bought out by the St. Regis Paper... |
Creator | Kinsey, Clark |
Partner | University of Washington |
Contributing Institution | University of Washington |
Subjects | Logs; Lumber camps--Washington (State); Trestles--Washington (State); Cutover lands--Washington (State); Railroad tracks--Washington (State); St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company--Facilities--Washington (State) Slash (Logging)--Washington (State)--Pierce County; Logging--Washington (State)--Pierce County |
Location | United States--Washington (State)--Pierce County |
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 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003 |
URL | http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/clarkkinsey/id/615 |
Rights | For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use |
- Chicago citation style
- Kinsey, Clark. Railroad camp no. 6, St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, near Voight Creek, ca. 1932. 1932~. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/clarkkinsey/id/615. (Accessed April 24, 2018.)
- APA citation style
- Kinsey, Clark, (1932~) Railroad camp no. 6, St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, near Voight Creek, ca. 1932. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/clarkkinsey/id/615
- MLA citation style
- Kinsey, Clark. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/clarkkinsey/id/615>.