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Title
D23185-7
Date(s)
- 1946-08-02 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company. Several railroad cars loaded with logs are standing in the yard at the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company. The waterway can be seen at the right. The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company was founded by Col. Chauncey W. Griggs in 1889. He had been working in Minnesota with coal and railroad concerns when he came to the Northwest. He was interested in starting a lumber producing operation so he purchased 80,000 acres in 1887 and another 20 acres on the tideflats one year later.
Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Tacoma);