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Shelton Mason County Journal
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May 20, 1965     Shelton Mason County Journal
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1.q65 Su) lement of SHELTON-MASON COUNTY JOURNAL .............. :. !}: p£ e ............... Sec. A--3 !¸::¸,¸¸:i I veteran of ith Simpson, on a door '(}Or Plant. Sol G. }!;i7 : !iill i!ii i+¸¸ : ~ '~ ; ,f: , ii¸ < !~!iii - %( ~ ........... DESIGNED FgR 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, I 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 I 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 i i iii 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. i:% : • 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 tt i 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 O 3 r ~ 7 SHELL OIL 1)ISTI{IBUTOR IN MASON (,OUN 1¥ Bayshore Road, Shelton, Washington • W.F. Got] !L ,!/ :~iiI L i,L~.