page_title: Mud Bay Logging Company
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: Mud Bay Logging Company / Operations
caption_attribution_description: English: Part of the collection located at Railroad Ave SE, Snoqualmie, Washington, USA.
context_page_description: Mud Bay Logging Company was a 20th-century logging company based in Olympia, Washington. The company was established in 1899 as Western Washington Logging Company by Mark Draham, who had previously established Mason County Logging Company. The name changed to Mud Bay Logging Company in 1910. The company was disestablished in 1941.
context_section_description: Operations were in the Mud Bay, Thurston County, Washington area, harvesting timber from the Black Hills, hauling it out by logging railroad, and rafting the timber by water from a Mud Bay log dump to mills on Puget Sound. The railroad ran west from Mud Bay to Summit Lake, about halfway to McCleary, Washington. By 1918, in the Black Hills, the line run as far south as section 20 or 27 of township 17 north, range 3 west—almost as far as Littlerock.
  The company was one of the last in the South Puget Sound area to use a logging railroad. Traces of the rail line can be easily seen across the greater Olympia area, now used as county roads and private driveways, a natural gas pipeline, and a nature trail.
  The company became one of the seven founding members of the State Log Patrol, incorporated in 1928 and given special quasi-law enforcement powers over timber piracy by the state legislature.
caption: 2-6-6-2 Mud Bay Logging Company locomotive "#6" at Northwest Railway Museum
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