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| The Silver Skagit Logging Company and Decco-Walton Logging Company were contracted to clear the forest for the construction of the Diablo Dam in northern Washington State. Now Ross Lake is where this forest once was. Here are pictures that I recently allowed to put on the web site. The person who owns this collection wishes to remain anonymous.
Further down this page are some pictures that my Father, Henry R. Suderman, took while he worked from Decco-Walton Logging Company. I was really excited when I was allowed to add these other Silver Skagit pictures to the web site to add to what my Dad has taken in the later 40's and early 50's. |
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Silver Skagit Logging was based in Vancouver. They had an office on Hastings Street. The company was jointly owned by Morrison-Knudsen Ltd and Delong Engineering, and run by Colonel Leon B. DeLong, the inventor of the DeLong Floating Pier. Silver Skagit's fleet of tugboats for towing the logs from Hope down the Fraser River was bought from Cecil Cosulich's River Towing Company; Cosulich then bought them back after Silver Skagit was finished with logging the right of way for the road from Hope to the Ross Reservoir area. Silver Skagit is also the company where Lucille Johnstone, the financial genius behind Rivtow got her start as a receptionist.
Thank you to Betty Keller for this information on Silver Skagit Logging I know that Decco-Walton was an Everett, Washington based company, but know very little about what happened to Decco-Walton after the Ross Lake project was completed. And I would also like to know how Alaska Freight Lines came into this picture. If there is anyone out there with more pictures from this project, I would love to add them to this web page. I hope you all enjoy these pictures. |
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Alaska Freight Lines Kenworth logging truck with 16 foot bunks taken in 1947 during the clearing of the forest for the Diablo Dam where Ross Lake is now. The man standing beneath the bunk is Syd Young. The smaller inset picture shows my Dad and his brother, Harold R.Young, standing on the spring boards at Harrison Lake. Robert Young Collection. |
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| Decco-Walton Logging Company | ||
| This company had the contract to clear the trees in the area of Ross Lake. The trees were cleared so that the dam could be built at the south end of Ross Lake for Seattle City Light. | ||
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| Here is one of Decco-Walton's diesel Kenworths trucks driving through Hope, BC in a parade. | Here is a closer picture of the Kenworth diesel. | Here is one of the Kenworth trucks with a Hall-Scott engine taken at Camp 5. |
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| Kenworth truck with Hall-Scott engine. | Another picture of the same Kenworth but notice the light mounted above the grill. | A loaded Hall-Scott powered Kenworth. |
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| The winters were brutal at Camp 5. Those are the Kenworth logging trucks in the background covered in snow. | ||
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