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English: Construction crew with steam shovel and small railroad trestle under construction, camp 2, Schafer Brothers Logging Company, probably in Grays Harbor County, ca. 1925 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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creator QS:P170,Q28549748 |
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English: Construction crew with steam shovel and small railroad trestle under construction, camp 2, Schafer Brothers Logging Company, probably in Grays Harbor County, ca. 1925 |
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English: Caption on image: Schafer, Camp #2. Kinsey Photo. No. 46 PH Coll 516.3688 Claude Jamison, a foreman for Schafer Brothers, is standing at the far right. Schafer Brothers Logging Company got its start in 1893 when brothers Peter, Albert and Hubert Schafer began logging on the family homestead 6 miles upstream from the mouth of the Satsop. They logged with oxen and horses for 20 years. The company's first donkey engine was purchased from Washington Iron Works. Hubert went to work at the factory to learn how donkey engines were made and also to have all of his wages, except for living expenses, applied toward the cost of that first donkey engine. In 1913, they bought a 45-ton Heisler locomotive and laid tracks into the woods from Brady to begin their railroad logging operation. A shingle mill was purchased in Montesano in 1919, the first of many manufacturing plants the company would own throughout Grays Harbor County. At the peak of operation, the Schafers were running one of the largest logging, milling and shipping concerns in the lumber industry of the Pacific Northwest. Their properties and equipment at that time, not counting ships and tugs, included five sawmills in operation, served by six camps sending logs over 100 miles of rail. This required 18 locomotives, both geared and mainline types, and a total of 70 donkeys and 325 logging cars. To operate all of this equipment called for approximately 3000 employees. Simpson Timber Company purchased Schafer Brothers Logging Company in 1955.
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Depicted place | Grays Harbor County, Washington | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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circa 1925 date QS:P571,+1925-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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English: Silver gelatin, b/w |
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height: 11 in (27.9 cm); width: 14 in (35.5 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,11U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,14U218593 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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Order Number InfoField | CKK01259 |
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