The Hartley Photographic Collection continued

Roland Hill Hartley the president of the Everett Logging Company in July 1915 on the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County, Washington. The locomotive is Everett Logging Company No. 2, a 38-ton class B Climax locomotive built in August of 1909 as serial number 962. This photograph was taken during the first days of operation, under a contract awarded to the Everett Logging Company by the United States Department of the Interior to log 340,000,000 board feet of timber on the western part of the Reservation. The Everett Logging Company was the apparent low bidder at the opening of bids August 15, 1914. A contract was awarded on September 23, 1914 and the first logs were scaled on June 26, 1915. Logging activities were completed on December 31, 1925 and the unit cut out 319,289,132 board feet of saw timber, besides a substantial quantity of cedar poles and ties with stumpage fees paid to the Department of Interior totaling $1,318,713.02.

An old growth western red cedar being felled to the ground. Note timber faller running for the clear, and fallers axe and cross cut saw near the base of tree. Approximately 1/3 of the total volume of timber cut during this contract was western red cedar. More than likely this contract supplied much of the cedar consumed by the Clough-Hartley Company in Everett, which was the largest producer of western red cedar shingles in the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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