Caption on image: C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 3 PH Coll 516.2060

Abbey's Register of the Northwest Lumber Industry for 1922 lists Mineral Lake Lumber Company in Mineral. The 1924 Abbey Register lists the Mineral Lake Logging Company in Tacoma, with a cap address in Ashford. The 1927, 1928, and 1930 Abbey Registers list Mineral Creek Lumber Company in Mineral. Ashford is a community in the upper Nisqually Valley six miles west of the Nisqually Park entrance to Mt. Rainier National Park, in southeast Pierce County. It was named for Walter A. and Cora Ashford, who platted it in 1904, after purchasing the land from the Northern Pacific Railway Company. Mineral, 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.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Railroad locomotives--Washington (State); Railroad tracks--Washington (State); Mineral Lake Logging Company--People--Washington (State); Mineral Lake Logging Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
• Subjects (LCSH): Locomotive engineers--Washington (State)--Lewis County; Locomotive firement--Washington (State)--Lewis County