Some 70 million acres of commercial forest land once covered the Pacific Northwest. Large Douglas firs, spruce, hemlock, and cedar trees grew west of the Cascade Range. Some firs grew over 300 feet tall, and some cedars reached 15 feet in diameter. In 1905, there were 189 lumber companies in King County alone, employing nearly 8,000 people. By 1910, Washington was the nation's largest lumber-producing state, and the industry employed almost two-thirds of the state's wage earners.
<p>This photo, taken around 1905, shows a giant fir tree at the Monroe Logging Company in Carnation, King County.
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<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Logs; Lumber industry;" Monroe Logging Company; Woodcutters Men--Employment</li></ul>
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