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| Subject: | Siler Logging Company |
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| Date: | Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:06:31 -0800 (PST) |
| From: | Michael Costello <m.costello@frontier.com> |
| Reply-To: | Michael Costello <mike@mcostello.com> |
| To: | Mike Costello <mike@mcostello.com> |
As most of you know, our neighborhood is on former Weyerhaeuser logging land. From about 1923 to 1931 the Siler Logging Company, which was a partnership between Weyerhaeuser and the Port Blakely Mill Company, was the outfit that logged Union Hill with its own railroad that moved the timber off the hill. Trilogy actually began as Blakely Ridge before its name change 15 years ago, taking its name from the Port Blakely Mill.
Our neighborhood is sandwiched between two of the rail lines that ran along Jim Lane's property on the west and Flamings' on the East.
There is a slideshow presentation on March 8 in Redmond about it for those interested. You can read about it in the Redmond Reporter.
Attached is a photo that shows the relative positions of the rail lines and another of the engine type that cruised around our hill 85 years ago.
