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County Industrial
Alfred H. Anderson, partner of Mark Draham's interest
Sol G. Simpson in the formation
of the Simpson Logging Company,
was a man of large size, com-
manding leadership and financial
acumen. '
He was: iSent to Mason County
in 1889: to. rescue a railroad in
distress and by the turn of the
centu~: was One of the industrial
leaders of Shelton and Mason
Countyl
The .pioneer Satsop Road had
fallen upon hard times, encounter-
ing heavy construction costs on its
line out of Shelton and scarcity of
operating' capital. One of Lhe prin.
cipal :~tockholders, Benjamin B.
ttealy, d Wisconsin lumberman ane
capitalist, sent Anderson, his son-
in-law, to see what reorganizatiop
in thA
Mason County Logging Company
and began consolidating his hold.
Ings with those of Sol Simpson.
This cooperative effort resulted in
1895 in the Simpson Logging
Company and the Peninsula~
Railway Company, combining th~
railroads and logging camps own
ed by both men and laying the per-
manent foundation for the fores~
products industries of Mason and
eastern Grays Harbor counties.
When Sol Simpson died in 19
06, Anderson became president oe
the Simpson Logging Company
and served until his death in 1914
LIKE A NUMBER of other ear
ly leaders, Alfred Anderson wa,~
lrawn into politics, a field he hap
pened to dislike. He won a seat il~
i,,of tl}~q property might be effected, I Lhe legislature in 1891 for the pur.
~ 'i~N~.: THE ENSUING .slmfDe ;0f;lpose,, ofLheiph~g: out..'in the. state'~
' ~foldings, Anderson got e.ontrol ;ofl struggle to ()bLain Feaeral land~.s
~Plle S:~ts0p, renamed it the Wash- ] Anderson devoted time and in
ington Southern Railroad and soon I teresL t,o education. :He is credited
had it oper'atffig on' a avi~ " basi~[ wflh seciivihg;'5"350:acrd carnpu~
• p,. g ..... , ,
Anderson went on l.~ buy out 1%r t.l~e 1Jniversity of Washington
in the face of opposition from
~ome legi.-,l~tors who thought 10t.
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!i~iii!iff;iiiiiii)i:Fi!iii)i!ii;i:~: :i: ~? :;] i :,~!~:;k
~cres Wmdd b~: plenly, lie served
m the committee which selecLe0
new site for the University, a.mt
'(! V,ra;~ :hl;~,rllnti~llt,al ill obt;linin~
ar.~e timber" t',oldiru~s for the
ncho~fl.
fl.n'!~!rf;~!}} ',V::L~ ]~rl()\V~l as the
l'¢:l!l 1;'h' of },,.~tson C~l/lnly f~t' td:~
size n.'; w(!ll as his leadership. He
~tn,~d ::.ix r .eL five inchc'.~, wei?,hed
285 p;~!!llds and was l