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26 stories matching lumberman
- The 'Lumberman' Who Swindled Seattle's Elite
A smooth-talking con man gains the trust of the city’s fashionable society before vanishing with thousands in unpaid debts.
- The World's Fair Forestry Fiasco
Grays Harbor lumbermen express outrage over the state's 'shabby' display at the Chicago World's Fair, claiming their industry was ignored and misrepresented.
- Bandit Ambush Near Everett Claims Life of Lumberman
A tragic highway encounter leaves a Washington family in mourning and authorities searching for the perpetrators.
- The Forest Empire That Built Washington
A sweeping 1900 survey of the state's lumber industry counted billions of feet of standing timber, 250 sawmills, and $7 million a year in wages—proof that the trees, not the cities, came first.
- The Tenderfoot Lumbermen and the 340-Foot Giant
When two skeptical Wisconsin mill men visited the Pacific coast, they tried to school the locals on timber estimating—only to be humbled by the sheer scale of Washington's old-growth forest.
- The Secret Syndicate Attempting to Control the Pacific Timber Trade
A covert effort by lumber barons to establish a monopoly by paying smaller mills to shut down.
- The Secret Lumber Pool
A clandestine plan to monopolize Pacific Coast timber shipments emerges from the shadows.
- The Price of a Mill Hand's Life
An anonymous laborer exposes the exploitative wage practices of the Puget Mill Company, detailing how the firm undercuts competitors by replacing white workers with Chinese laborers at subsistence wages.
- The Mysterious Government Inspector
A Tacoma man claimed a high-level federal appointment in the Department of the Interior, shaking down friends for cash before federal officials exposed the scheme as a total fabrication.
- The Land Locators Who Left Town on a Fraudulent Fortune
A band of swindlers targeting Seattle settlers skipped town, leaving behind forged documents and a trail of broken promises that the law couldn't quite reach.
- The Disappearing Mill Owner
A Lewis County lumberman vanishes after a devastating factory fire, leaving his brothers to search for him in a desperate, cross-state manhunt.
- Railroad Monopoly Tightens Grip on Lumber
A newly formed 'Improvement Company' linked to the Northern Pacific Railroad establishes a monopoly over regional lumber trade.
- Free Wool, Free Lumber: Washington's Mill Towns Brace for the Tariff Shock
Seattle and Tacoma manufacturers warn that the new Havemeyer tariff will cut wages, ruin sheep raisers and hand the lumber trade to Canadian timbermen.
- The Despair of an Unemployed Laborer
Unable to find work due to a permanent injury, a Scotsman living in Tacoma ends his life.
- The Lumbermen Who Worshipped a Black Cat
Seattle initiates into the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, a new fraternal society for lumbermen, complete with black robes, mock titles and a banquet.
- The West Point Forger Who Vanished From Tacoma
A polished stranger with a celebrated military past talked his way into Tacoma's lumber trade—then left a forged check and a trail gone cold.
- Mercer Island Exhumation Identifies George Richards
After a body is recovered from the lake, investigators suspect two Italian laborers in the brutal murder of a lumberman.
- The Unmeasured Wealth of Washington's Timber
A comprehensive statistical report from 1893 reveals the staggering scale of timber resources across the state and the birth of a major industry.
- The Shingle Men Try to Tame the Market
Manufacturers meet in Seattle to cap production, set 1894 prices, and bind every mill to the plan—with forfeits for anyone who breaks ranks.
- The Lumber Bottleneck
High freight rates and logistical hurdles leave Pacific Northwest lumber barons desperate for new markets.
- A Mill Owner's Warning: Free Trade and the Fight for Seattle's Lumber Future
Port Blakely's C. P. Holmes saw tariff-free lumber helping British Columbia, doubted the China-Japan war would rescue trade, and still believed Seattle's natural harbor would win.
- The Passing of a Seattle Police Pioneer
A biography of Phil Sullivan, an ex-lieutenant of the Seattle police force, who died of consumption at the Pacific House.
- The Logger's Picnic Party
When a group of men looked like tramps in the Snoqualmie Valley, the locals grew suspicious—until they found out it was just a day of fishing and fun.
- The Bitter Fight Over the Kenyon Estate
Second cousins challenge the will of a Seattle pioneer, alleging madness and manipulation by the family who cared for him.
- The High Cost of a Depressed Lumber Market
A Seattle lumberman's failed venture in San Francisco illustrates the brutal reach of the 1893 economic panic across the Pacific Coast.