A Timber Titan at Smith's Cove
With a new $150,000 capital infusion, the Western Land and Logging Company is set to build the coast's largest shingle and saw mill.
The Western Land and Logging Company, which was incorporated on Tuesday with $150,000 capital stock, proposes to build at Smith’s Cove the largest shingle mill on the Coast, with a saw and planing mill attached. The stockholders are Alfred Mosher, of New York; Alfred Mosher, jr., of Bay City, Mich.; W. A. McDonald and U. C. Eldman, of this city. The company owns about 100,000 acres of the best cedar lands in Snohomish and Skagit counties. The product will be shipped East entirely by rail, both the Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads running right into the mill. This mill will employ about 150 men.
“The company owns about 100,000 acres of the best cedar lands in Snohomish and Skagit counties.”
Smith's Cove was once the heart of Seattle's industrial timber processing. Today, the area is better known for the Cruise Terminal and the Port of Seattle’s modern container facilities, marking the transition from extraction to global shipping.
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