Logging crew on flatcars pulled by Shay locomotive, Aloha Lumber Company, ca. 1921

• Main Author: Kinsey, Clark
• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Loggers; Railroad locomotives > Washington (State); Railroad cars > Washington (State); Railroad tracks > Washington (State); Steam donkeys > Washington (State); Cutover lands > Washington (State); Lumber industry > Washington (State); Aloha Lumber Company > People > Washington (State); Aloha Lumber Company > Equipment & supplies > Washington (State); Grays Harbor County (Wash.); Shay locomotives; Slash (Logging) > Washington (State) > Grays Harbor County; Pacific; Emerson; Kinsey; Beaver Creek
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/clarkkinsey/id/25

Caption on image: Aloha Mill & Lumber Co., Aloha, Wash. C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 5 PH Coll 516.18 Aloha was once home to Aloha Mill and Shake Company. It is located two miles east of the Pacific Ocean on Beaver Creek in west central Grays Harbor County. It was founded by R. D. Emerson and W. H. Dole in 1905. The name, a Hawaiian greeting, was chosen by members of the Dole family, who were landowners and business people in Hawaii. In 1920, Aloha Mill & Lumber Co. successfully bid on a unit of timber near Moclips, six miles away from its mill. For the next two years the company toiled at constructing a railroad to the sale site. Heavy rains during the winter months, 25 to 30 inches a month, delayed the start of logging until the summer of 1922.