Originally published in The Seattle Daily Times, September 21, 1922
One of biggest ever seen on waterfront to be sawed into 60,000 shingles
On the last leg of its journey from the forests of Maple Valley to the Rockway & Webster Mill and Timber Company’s plant on Lake Washington, where it will be cut into 60,000 shingles, a solid cedar log six feet on one end, four feet in diameter on the other, and thirty-two feet long, was dropped in the harbor at the Hanford Street Terminal of the Port Commission at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
The huge log, once the trunk of a giant of the forest in Maple Valley, is one of the largest and most perfect solid cedar logs ever seen on the Seattle waterfront. It was cut in the Stetson & Post Lumber Company’s camp in Maple Valley, brought to Seattle by the Pacific Coast Railroad to the Stetson & Post plant on Horton Street, and sold to the Rockway & Webster Mill & Timber Company.
The huge log was then taken from the railway car at the Stetson & Post mill and placed on a logging truck in charge of Jim Garvey, who delivered it to the Hanford Street terminal of the Port Commission. The log was then dumped into the bay and placed in a log raft under the direction of Jack Hillard, former champion log roller of Northern Wisconsin.
The next experience of the log will be in the big raft being towed through the Lake Washington Canal by a tug of the Anderson Towboat Company, to the plant of the Rockway & Webster Mill Timber Company, where it will be cut into shingles.
Representatives the mill companies estimated that there are 5,000 feet of lumber in the log.
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