File:Erie steam shovel loading trucks on a plank road, Clemons Logging Company, near Melbourne, ca 1925 (KINSEY 2050).jpg

Caption on image: Kinsey Photo. No. 19 PH Coll 516.564

Clemons Logging Company was organized in 1903. Charles H. Clemons was the first president. The company had a logging camp in the Melbourne area. In 1919, the company was consolidated with the Melbourne and North River Railroad Company, an eight mile logging railroad extending from Melbourne to Montesano. In 1919, the company was reorganized as the Clemons Logging Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. The company operated a 75 mile logging railroad in the Montesano area. In 1936, the company was merged into the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. Its locomotives were later sold to the Murphy Lumber Company, Discovery Bay Logging Company, Craig Mountain (Idaho) and West Fork Logging Company. The company was dissolved on June 29, 1937. In 1941, the original logging site was dedicated as the first tree farm in Washington. Melbourne was a logging center on the Chehalis River seven and a half miles east of Aberdeen in south central Grays Harbor County. It was named for Melbourne, Australia, by Reuben Redmond when he platted the town in the late 1850s. Redmond was a father-in-law of Samuel Benn who founded Aberdeen in the same period.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Steam shovels; Dump trucks--Washington (State); Plank roads--Washington (State); Lumber industry--Washington (State); Clemons Logging Company--People--Washington (State); Clemons Logging Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State); Grays Harbor County (Wash.)