tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755593200920587152.post8090041205894331613..comments2024-03-20T01:04:25.596-07:00Comments on Harbor History Museum Blog: The Storey Timber CompanyHarbor History Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352321858738657105noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755593200920587152.post-58580996976753340672017-04-20T16:28:58.760-07:002017-04-20T16:28:58.760-07:00Thanks to the very, very sharp eyes, and research ...Thanks to the very, very sharp eyes, and research skills there are needed corrections to be made to the history of the Storey Timber Company: You and I and probably everybody else who have read Bob Crandall's book on the history of Rosedale assumed he was right when, while telling the story of the Rosedale logging railroad, he flatly states on page 15, “The name on the engine was the Storey Timber Company.” Well, it turns out that it was not the Storey Timber Company that logged in Rosedale. I've looked into the the Storey Timber Company, and it wasn't formed until 1912, which was too late to have been involved with the Rosedale railroad. They also never logged on the west side of Puget Sound. Also, Chester Thorne and Frank Fuhrman had nothing to do with Storey Timber, but they were definitely involved with the Rosedale logging. The photograph of the Storey Timber locomotive on page 38 E of Crandall's book was not taken in Rosedale, as that particular steam engine was never in Rosedale.<br /><br /> Here's the part we all overlooked. Bob Crandall found out that Storey Timber never logged in Rosedale, but only after he'd already sent his manuscript to the printer. The only way he could made a correction was by including it in the introduction to his book. So in the introduction, he wrote, "The logging railroad was a sticker. The name on the engine is not that of the company."<br /><br /> He then added, "The name of the company was Rawleigh Logging Co. or something like that." That wasn't the name of the company either, but that's beside the point, which is that he alerted readers to the mistake he’d made in the main text. But we all missed it. I have now made a note on pages 15 and 38 E of my copy of Crandall's book that the name of the Rosedale logging railroad company was not the Storey Timber Co.<br /><br /> The rest of your blog entry on the Rosedale logging railroad looks good, but the photo of the logging camp is of the Rainier Logging Co. camp on the Key Peninsula, not the one in Rosedale. I think Crandall got that wrong in his book too, but I don't have my copy near, so can't check to be sure.<br /><br />MANY, MANY THANKS TO ANONYMOUSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com