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1.q65 Su) lement of SHELTON-MASON COUNTY JOURNAL
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TY AT HcCLEARY
Just a door. the malting of the doors, which :u'p
has brought shipped all over the United States
personalityfrom McCleary. Eighty-five pet'
Timber cent of the basic wood used is
Door Plant,Douglas fir, the rest hemlocl¢ and
3 Dishing "
Three foresters who were il]-
strumental in developing Simpson
Tilllber Conlpany's "~'ol'k ill see-
ond-growth forest lands have re-
tired in recent years after distin-
guished careers with the Company.
Tilcy are Oscar Levin, managing
forest.er, who retired July 1, 1963;
H. O. (t:'nd) Puhn, director of tim- Bill Grisdale in 1928. In 1937 he
and sizes
actured.
kind of door
H. {Bud}
toor plant.
places
can be
of interna-
n Teague
SireD-
in a new
Hospital-
bring custo-
doors, too,"
are likely
With our
they order
out aD-
and 1800
~n operation
bursts of
of workers
projects.
and
are patch-
out. The
Over
+~ can yet
of dupli-
rk
contribute Lo
cedar.
berland d(welopment, and J. G. became a. foreman, and six years
ry MeCleary, who came West in
the 1890's and built a sawmill and
shingle mill on the town's Wild-
cat Creek shortly after the turn of
the century.
ONE OF MoCLEARY'S custo-
The MeCleary Door Plant owes (Gib) Rueker, chief forester, both
its birth and early growth to Hen- of whom retired April 1, 1964.
Levin began his fore" decades of
forestry work with the Minnesota
Forest Service and came with
Simpson in 1943 to manage the
South Olympic Tree Farm. His
work in tree farming brought na-
tionwide attention to himself and
to Simpson.
AMONG HIS accomplishments
were hetter fire and animal-dam-
later superintendent at Camp
Five. In 1949, Puhn was promoted
to logging manager and in 195i
became general manager of the
Shelton Working Circle, later
heading Shelton forestry and log-
ging.
GIB RUCKER started his full-
time work with Simpson in 1919
on the survey crew at Cmnp One.
In 1929 he was foreman and m
1931 supervised the first gas cats
for logging. He became a cruiser
and then in 1937 a forester.
In the 1940's, Rucker w~s in
charge of Simpson's salvage pro-
gram, using "gyppo" conh'act log-
gers. This was the forerunner of
today's thinning program. On the
retirement of George Drake in
1954, Rucker was promoted to
chief forester.
timmlly operated pl~mt in the fir
dora' industry and one of the na-
time's oldest.
In 1941 Henry McCleary was in
his 80's, nmning low on timber
and looking back on a vigorous
and challenging career in the tim-
ber industry. He sold out to Simp-
son, which has continued his pol-
icy of turning ouL.do,,rs of excel-
lence made by skilled craftsmen
out of good clean wood.
BUD FOGLE brings to the man-
agement of the factory 35 years in
the door industry. He has been
with Simpson the past three years, i
Included on his staff are Roger
Cooper, maintenance superinlend- I
ent; Roger Shortridge, methods
engineer; Earle Bland, production
coordinator; Dud Nelson, door su-/
perintendent, and Jack Harris,
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quality control technician.
H. O. (BUD) PUHN
Rueker has played' an important
Puhn urged development of the part in the Company's acquisition
Company's second-growth thin-lof second-growth lands, which has
ning program to the point where added to the resources and
it now is one of the nation's lead- strength of the Shelton Coopera-
ors. tire Sustained Yield Unit.
OSCAR LEVIN
GIB RUCKER
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In the rough and tumble days of
early logging, it was the man who
could do things better who surviv-
ed. Sol G. Simp~n was of this
ilk. He didn't care what others did
or said as long as his revolution-
ary ideas paid out, and seventy-
five years later, while a host of
others have come and gone, tim
hunber operation he pioneered is
still with us in great good health.
Like many who came to Mason
County, Sol Simpson got his start
in raih'oading. The Port Blakely
Mill, managed by Captain William
Renton, was vm'aciously gulp-
ing logs at 62 billion feet a
year. Renton headed a group of
Seattle men who decided to build
a raih'oad out of Old Kamilche to
supply logs for the mill. Renton
picked Sol Simpson for the job.
BoRN IN CANADA in 1844,
Simpson was in his 40s when,1 he.
,'-~rrix, ed with his wife, Mary, and
his daughters, Irene and Caroine.
He had wrestled the spruce and
fir around the burgeoning timber
port of Montreal, and people said
he had made and lost a fortune
or two in Nevada lumbering.
Simpson sailed into his new joh
with characteristic speed. Men and
equipment began aniving, aald the
Puget Sound and Grays Harbor
Railroad, known forever by every..
one as The Blakely, began to
crash westward and eastward
through 250-foot-high stands ()t
virgin timber, pushing toward
what was to be New Kamilche.
LOGGING CAMPS sprang up
along the tracks, and as the tall
timber measured its length oil the
forest floor, Simpson began the
first experiment which had the
men saying he was crazy as a
loon and soon would he bankrupt.
He thought horses might move the
logs faster than the traditional
9xen teams, and they did.
While others were dealing out
ridicule, Simpson was sending for
more horses, and while his con
temporaries were still reeling,
Simpson shocked them further by
ordering the first of the donkey
engines which later became stand-
ard equipment.
The railroad went through,
flocks and the village at New Ka-
milche appeared, and the revolu.
tionary Blakely was paying out as
:fortunes' worth of logs rode its
rails to salt water to make their
way to mills all around Puget
Sound.
MEAN'WIIILE, SUCH g o o d
fortune was not the lot of some
of the other raih'oads. Among
Ihose failing miserably was the
Moneer Satsop Road. One of it.-
major stockholders, Benjamin B.
Healy of Wisconsin, sent his son-
in-law to Shelton to find out what
might be done with the property,
this dynamic man, Alfred H. An,.
derson, bought the Satsop and pro-
ceeded to put it on a paying basin.
The drive for progress brought
Simpson and Antlerson together
six years later, and they merged
their raih'oads and the adjacent
logging camps. Thus, from its be-
gmnings in 1890 as S. G. Simpson,
the Simpson Logging Company
came into being under that title
in 1895.
SIMPSON'S partnership with
~ndcrson also resulted in the for-
mation of the Lumbermen's Mer-
cantile Company, operated by the
Simpson Logging Company years
before becoming an independent
~oncern.
New ventures continued to at-
tract Sol Simpson, and, with ~h~-
,3tt~er partner, he formed the White
Star Steamship Company, whose
three steamships plied the waters
between Seattle and Nome, center
of Alaska's Gold Rush country.
Sol G. Simpson died in 1906,
leaving as a legacy the Simpson
Logging Company, survivor of a
rough pioneer infancy ~md ready
for growth to prosperous adult-
hood.
We wish to add our Sincere Con-
gratulations to the Simpson Timber
Company on its 75th Anniversary as
a part of the Mason County Commun-
ity and to thank it for the many con-
tributions it has made to the progress
we have enjoyed in those 75 years.
OF SHELTON
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A SURE SIGN OF
Is Simpson Timber Company's
75 YEARS OF PAST HISTORY
and its preparations for
We are grateful to Simpson
for giving us a sustained
yield on which to build.
on Hillcrest
Just As SHELL OIL PRODUCTS Mean BETTERING MOTORING for auto owners.
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Generation-after-generati°n of Americans have used Simpson forest
products and Shell 0il Products for a more comfortable life. As one
company to another engaged in raising the American standard of
living
SHELL SALUTES SIMPSON TIMBER COMPANY
on this happy occasion of its
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Out' hope is to be on hand to
and do the same £or birthday
No. 100 in 1990.
1219 Westlake Avenue North,
Seattle 11,
Washington
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
to the best friend a community could have.
75 YEARS SOUNDS MIGHTY LONG
but is only a moment in the future of
the useful operation and continued suc-
cess we wish sincerely for the
SIMPSON TIMBER COMPANY
and the wonderful people who make up
its management and working personnel
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