File:Logging crew standing on flat car with supplies in the foreground, Saginaw Timber Company, ca 1923 (KINSEY 520).jpeg

PH Coll 516.3097
The Saginaw Timber Company incorporated on March 18, 1908 and organized in 1909. The company was to be capitalized at $100,000. The organizers were A J Morley and W G Hopkins. The company constructed and operated a 40 mile logging railroad in the Aberdeen area. In 1919, the company merged the E H Lester Logging Company, a two mile logging railroad in the Montesano area. In 1933, the company merged the Gray's Harbor and Pacific Railroad Company, a 9.25 mile railroad in the Aberdeen area. The company also merged the Saginaw Southern Railway Company. By 1934 the company was known as the Saginaw Logging Company and operated in the Brooklyn area. In 1947, the company acquired the Bridges to Vesta track from the Gray's Harbor and Puget Sound Railway Company. In 1946, the company was reorganized as the Saginaw Lumber Company. On February 14, 1947 the company was dissolved.

Saginaw is an area on the Chehalis River three miles southeast of Elma in southeast Grays Harbor County. The name is for Saginaw Timber Company of Aberdeen, which used the area as headquarters of its logging operations. The company reportedly originated in Saginaw, Michigan.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Loggers--Washington (State)--Pacific County; Household supplies--Washington (State)--Pacific County; Logging--Washington (State)--Pacific County
• Subjects (LCSH): Railroad cars--Washington (State); Cutover lands--Washington (State); Saginaw Timber Company (Brooklyn, Wash.)--People--Washington (State); Saginaw Timber Company (Brooklyn, Wash.)--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)