The Boom Town of Allyn Gets Its Mill
A new industrial settlement on the North Bay peninsula prepares for a rapid expansion with a steam-powered sawmill and hotel.
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The machinery of the Allyn Mill Company will go to Allyn on board the steamer Messenger on Monday morning. It is the intention of the company to have their mill in operation in two weeks. The output will be about 15,000 feet of lumber per day, and about 35,000 shingles. A planing mill attachment will enable them to furnish flooring, rustic and surface lumber. Three large stores are being erected and a large hotel will go up as soon as the mill runs. Allyn is situated on the peninsula between Hood’s Canal and North Bay. The powerful and newly fitted steamer Otter will soon begin to make three round trips from Tacoma to Allyn weekly.
“Its natural advantages are wonderful; timber, farming land and advantages for trade are unsurpassed.”
Allyn was once envisioned as a major industrial hub on the Hood Canal. Today, it remains a smaller community, but the tension between 'natural advantages' for development and preserving the canal's shoreline remains a central theme in Mason County planning.
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