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C116894-1
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- 1936-07 (Creation)
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In July of 1936, members of the West Fork Logging Co. boom crew posed on a rail car with a huge log cut near Mineral, Washington. The men were Fred Kopaske (sitting on top); Lawrence Aus (center, in tie); and standing on the car, left to right, D. Mackay, Eyler Plumb, Pete Peterson and Al McCoy. The mammoth log was 11 1/2 feet in diameter, 36 feet long and solid to the core with no rot. The cut log was ready to be hauled away; to prevent it from sliding off, two narrow logs, firmly secured by brackets, flanked the larger one. (Copy of customer photograph, ordered by Oscar Aus; photograph in the same series as D3009, images 3 & 4. Copy of customer's print was made on September 22, 1958.) (T. Times 7/9/1936, pg. 3)
Lumber industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; West Fork Logging Co. (Tacoma); Logs; Kopaske, Fred; Aus, Lawrence; Plumb, Eyler; Peterson, Pete; McCoy, Al; Loggers;