File:Asian crew with women and children at camp, KP Timber Company, Kerry, ca 1928 (KINSEY 2675).jpg

Caption on image: No 18, K.P. Tmbr Co PH Coll 516.5354

The K.P. Timber Company was located in Kerry, Oregon in Columbia County. The town of Kerry was founded in 1912 by Albert S. Kerry, the head of the Kerry Timber Company. In 1925, Kerry sold the Kerry Timber Company as well as the Columbia & Nehalem River Railroad for $3,000,000 to the newly incorporated K.P. Timber Company. This new corporation was owned jointly by the Peninsula Lumber Company of Portland, Oregon and the Knappton Mills Company of Knappton, Washington. Therefore, K.P. stood for Knappton-Peninsula. The Columbia & Nehalem River Railroad was incorporated in 1913 when construction began from Kerry into the Nehalem Valley to access the Kerry Timber Company's timber holdings. F.C. Knapp was the president of the Peninsula Lumber Company and P.J. Brix was the president of the Knappton Mills Company. Robert Shaw would become the secretary of the K.P. Timber Company. Shaw was brothers with J.R. Shaw, who was the president of the Shaw Bertram Lumber Company. (Source: "$3,000,000 Deal Transfers Kerry Timber Holdings: Seattle Man and His Associate Dispose of Standing Trees, Logging Equipment and Railroad" from the Seattle Daily Times, 09-04-1925)