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A60342-2
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- 1951-08-17 (Creation)
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An employee of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company gestures to have piles of 20 and 40 foot long 10x10 cut lumber carefully hoisted and stacked on board a ship in the summer of 1951. Positioning the heavy lumber was crucial to maximizing the total amount of lumber shipped and to also ensure that the load would not slip. The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company had utilized water transportation for many years in bringing their cut lumber to such ports as San Francisco and Alaska. St. Paul & Tacoma's lumber played an important part in rebuilding San Francisco after the massive 1906 earthquake and in the Alaskan gold rush boom. The St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co. was absorbed by St. Regis in the late 1950s. (A History of Pierce County, p. 11; Tree Life Hemlock, St. Paul & Tacoma lumber Co.)
St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Tacoma); Lumber industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Hoisting machinery;