The lure of vast timber supplies on Tiger Mountain attracted a number of notable entrepreneurs to our area including Weyerhaeuser Company with their sawmill at Walsh Lake, the Neukirchen brothers with a sawmill along Issaquah - Hobart road and eventually at Lake Sawyer too, and Wood & Iverson who made Hobart into one of the larger and long lasting company towns around. Clark Kinsey, noted photographer and chronicler of the logging and lumber industry, captured some fun photos of Wood & Iverson's logging operations, probably taken in the late 1910's to early 1920's. Here's one of picture day out in the woods.
Photo courtesy University of Washington Libraries, CKK01038, Clark Kinsey photographer, n.d.
Lots of hats and suspenders. This donkey engine looks to be "made for stout". One of the heavier duty donkey engines that I've seen for this period and quite the shed. Not your typical pick it up and move it from site to site type of set up.
Photo courtesy University of Washington Libraries, CKK01039, Clark Kinsey photographer, n.d.
Their "three truck" Climax locomotive used to deliver logs from woods to mill is also pretty impressive and again, very heavy duty.
Photo courtesy University of Washington Libraries, CKK01041, Clark Kinsey photographer, n.d.
For more about the history of Hobart and Wood & Iverson Lumber Co., follow this link to my earlier post Wood & Iverson Sawmill Co..
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