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Pioneer
Ford's.family. Ford's father mov-
ed et from Michigan and set up
a :gyppo" outfit at the Port Bla-
ly Raih'oad Co. ne:tr Matlock.
In 1904. Ford, then 19. began
working for his father as a steam
tractor operator.
Three years later young Ford
went to work for Simpson Logging
Co. at Camp No. 4 as steam yard-
er. When the camp shut down a
few months later. Ford went back
to his father's sawmill. There he
worked as a sawmill hand until
1929.
After leaving the sawmill in
1929, Ford went to work for the
Simpson Logging Co. again. He
remained with Simpson until his
retirement in 1946.
Ford was employed with Simp-
son us part time bucker and fan
ler. an occupation referred to then
as "busheling." Busheling is a sys-
tem whereby the more work a log-
ger does, t{e more pay he recei-
ves.
Ford recalls several experiences
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14m
in fighting fires. However, because
he was a busheler and therefore
helped to fall dead snags and
trees, he never actually worked
at the fire line.
Ford was born in Calhoun Coun-
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501 RailrOad Ave, Shelton, Washmglon
Falling and bucking timber was
Roy Nason's main occupation in
the logging industry, However, he
began his logging career setting
chokers for Seaburn nem Dewatto
on the Hood Canal. These chokers
were thirty feet long and were at-
tached to a 13' x 13' donkey.
By 1924, he was working for
Elmer Wiss, who was an indepen-
dent logger. He then began to fall
timber. Nason worked in 1927 for
the Rayonier Co. of Shelton in the
Zellerbach pulp mill. The next
year he began logging for Batstone
and Roy Kimbel, Sr., near the
Cranberry Lake area.
Later, by 1935, he was logging
for Pat Moran near Mason Lake.
111 1940. he worked for-Simpson
Logging Co. at Camp No. 3. He
then worked until his retirement
in 1952 for George Grisdale's Con-
struction Co. During his logging
career Nason also found time to
try his hand at independent log-
ging for a year or so.
Nason, now 74, was born in
Jackson County, Wis., April 14,
1889. He wan married to Altha
Bettz in Shelton in 1921. His eight
children are Joyce Nason, Oregon;
Albert Nason, Seattle; Roy Nason,
Lake Nahwatzel; Irving Nason,
Dayton; Beatrice iason, Dayton;
Amy Hanna. Shelton Valley; Mary
Eash Hillcrest, and Dorothy Good-
child. Dayton. Nason has 15 grand-
children.
For about two years now Nason
has been spending his summers
and free time at his home in West-
port. There he enjoys fishing and
rock collecting.
ty, Mich., April 1. 1885. When he
was four, his family came to Ma-
son County where his father was
homesteading. Ford never married
but has ten nieces and nephews.
He lives at 319 West C Street in
Shelton.
Money, when lost. cannot be re-
placed. 13". Sy Savings Bonds can,
t yct enjoy almost the same liquid-
ity as currency.
logger Albert Lord
knows what it is like to be sur-
rounded completely by burning
forest. In the sunnner of 1918 Sim-
pson's Camp No. 2 bm:ed while
Lord and four of his friends sought
protection in a canyon The five
remained in the canyon all night
while the fire burned all around
ihem. The fire stayed out of the
canyon so they were safe.
Loi'd was born in Snohomish
June 23. 1882. He grew up with
four brothers and three sisters.
At the age of 16 he sta, ted greas-
ing skids in order to earn money
to buy a gun.
Lord and his brother worked to-
gether at Snohomish .until 1906
when they moved their equipment
by barge Io. Hoodsport.
In 1910 Lord went to work for
the Phoenix Co.. firing locomotives.
He also worked for Fredson Bro-
thers in 1918 and in 1932 worked
at Camp No. 4 fro' Simpson. Lord
did a lot of independent logging
on his own land,
He andhis wife have lived on
Little Skookum since their mar-
riage in 1922 in Tacoma. He has
three sons: Jay Lord. Hayward,
Calif.; Harvey Lord, Los Ange-
les, Calif.; Byron Lord, San Die-
go, Calif. He has 10 grandchild-
ten and four great grandchildren.
At the age of 72 he was logging
independently when he retired.
Since then he has been keeping a
garden and recently building a
fence on his Iand.
Antone Anderson -
Antone Anderson preferred
"driving team" to any other occu-
pation in the logging industry.
Born March 25, 1883, in Douglas
County, Anderson came to %Vash-
ington in 1891.
He first began using horse teams
when he logged with his brothers,
Arthur and Ernest, around 1909.
In 1911, Anderson was greasing
skids for Horace Miller ear Aga-
te.
The next year, Anderson went to
work in Ira Libby's sawmffl, where
he worked ten hours a day on the
cut=off saw. Later in 1915, he was
ox-bull team worker for Ira Lib-
by.
Around ]929, Anderson went to
work for J. F. Stotsberry. A few
years later. Anderson went to
work for himself as an indepen-
dent lo, gger, He never officially re-
ih'ed and still works around the
woods of his home in Agate. His
The day the school house burned
is what pioneer logger Roy Castle
remembers about the 1902 fire.
Castle. now 74, was only 14 at
the time of the fire and was at-
tending school near Hunters Point
when the fire started.
He recalls the day when he and
k friend saw the fire in the dis-
tance coming closer to the school
house. They helped to move some
things from the school befm'e it
burned.
Castle was born at Fort Dodge,
Iowa. Juffe 27, 1889. He came to
the northwest in 1892 with his
mother, brother and sister,
In 1906 he bad his first logging
job on Harsthe Island (,here he
worked for his brother, Louis Cas-
tle. He did oil the different jobs
there were in logging including
skid greasing and line driving.
Castle hauled log booms for 3ake
Wingert in 1917. He worked for
the Miller Brothers, Sawtell and
McCleary during his logging ca-
ieer.'He and Ned Wivell logged to-
gether for about 20 years. Castle
logged in both Mason and Thurs-
ton Counties, and did a lot of in-
dependent logging. When he retir-
BONEY LOERTSCHER
place at Agate rms been him bache-
lor home for 66 years.
Anderson likes logging very
much and thinks it is,a good job.
He recalls however, one not so
happy incident in which he and
the six-horse team he was driving
went over a bank into the bay near
his home. It was a cold morning
and a little snow was left on the
Back in 1903. Ernest A. "Boney"
Loertscher. then 14 began a log-
ging career which lasted up until
about a year ago when a broken
leg forced him to slow down.
He lived the entire time in Ma-
son County except foi" about 8
years.
His first logging job was driv-
ing a line horse at Simpson's old
Stillwater green cedar camp. After
about two years there he decided
to. see whtt was on the other side
of the mountain, going first to
Seattle, then to Walla Walla and
ending up on a ranch in Idaho
where he began breaking broncs.
Until he was 24 he moved about.
from ranch to ranch breading
br0ncs on ranches in Idaho, lion-
tana, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada.
Returning home foi" a visit, .he
married and settled in the Day t0h
area. Since that time he has work-
ed on just about every kind of
logging job in the woods and for
many of the logging outfits operat-
ing in the county,
He and his Wife will celebrate
their 50th AnniveK'mry in Novem-
ber.
He wan lorn at Beloit, .I.an.,. and
came to Elma with his pareit
when he was a year old.
ill6 has foll Sons, all loggers,
and one daughter.
gro{md. e and the horses were up
to their necks in the ie-cold wa-
ter, but Anderson escaped by gatr
ring out of th water 5efot;e the
horses could trample hiin.
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MIKE KRISE
At the age of 15 pioneer logger
:Mike Krise. now 79, set out on his
first logging job. He started work
in 1898 on the sldd roads for
Simpson Logging Company. "I
liked logging and did quite a bit
of it" remarked Krise.
Krise was born in Mason County
in 1883. He grew up in this area
with nine brothers and two sisters.
From the Simpson Company he
went to work for the Bordeaux
family and worked in several
camps. He also worked for the
Campbell Brothers.
During hislogging career Krise
logged in many areas and did se-
veral different jobs. He worked as
rigging man. set chokers, felled
timber and bucked logs. He finds
the biggest change in logging is
the modern eqttipment.
Krise married. Jenny Slocum in
1909 in Shelton. He was remarried
in 1922 to Annie Jackson in Yak-
ima County.
Krise has five children: John
Krise; Kamilche; Delbert Krise,
Tahola and David, Harvey and
Evelyn live in Tacoma.
Krise has more grandchildren
than he can count and seven great-
grandchildren.
Mrs. Annie Whitener and Ralph
Krise, sister and brother of Mike
Kl:ise, both live in Kamilche. All-
other brother John Krise lives in
Nisqually.
In 1949, Krlse was working as a
ed in 1959 he was an independent
logger.
In 1928 Castle married Estelle
Twentier in Shelton. They now
reside in Arcadia where •Castle en-
Joys gardening and walking in the
woods.
They have one son Harold Cas-
tle, Arcadia and two grandchild-
ren.
Bill Grisdale
In 1898 a
Canadian
89. arrived in the
area to try
growing
n'mnth s later
but Grisdale
his home and
ing logging
ty.
MGrisdale, who
ontreal April
working for
Co. at the age
for Simpson
WaS then
quarters. For
Grisdale
for Simpson
engine "Old
In 1899. Gris
man of
that time ther,
camps. They
horse camps
those
in. Each camp
all the camps
of a
Later, when
only two
manager of
had been CamP
combined,
ployed by
ed in 1947.
Grisdale
in 1902 to EIS
one daughter,
Shelton and
Pauley.
Point where
He liked
industry and
ink at the
is what makes
boon2 man
now resides in
enjoys the
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