File:Falling team, Wynooche Timber Company, near Montesano, ca 1921 (KINSEY 1605).jpeg

English: Caption on image: Wynooche Tmbr. Co. C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 416 PH Coll 516.5175
The Wynooche Timber Company began operations ca. 1913 with headquarters in Hoquiam and logging operations in Montesano. It was named for Wynooche Valley in northeast Grays Harbor County. Wynooche Timber Company was bought out by Schafer Brothers Logging Company ca. 1927. Montesano, the county seat of Grays Harbor County, is eight miles east of Aberdeen on the Chehalis River near the mouth of Wynooche River in central Grays Harbor County. In 1862, the name Mount Zion was suggested by the wife of the first settler, J. L. Scammon. Another pioneer, Samuel James, suggested the present name from the Spanish monte or mountain, and sano or health. Local authorities thought Sam's name had more meaning. The falling crew consisted of fallers and buckers. Fallers cut down trees and buckers saw the felled trees into lengths. Loggers used to use seven, eight, or nine-foot long saws, with a man on each end. These loggers faced great danger from trees falling or rolling on them. The bottle hanging on the tree contains oil to lubricate the saw.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Loggers; Trees--Washington (State); Forests--Washington (State); Axes; Crosscut saws; Lumber industryWynooche Timber Company--People--Washington (State); Grays Harbor County (Wash.); Group portraits
• Subjects (LCSH): Springboards (Logging)--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County