File:Falling team, National Lumber and Manufacturing Company, ca 1920 (KINSEY 289).jpeg

English: Caption on image: National Logging Co., Cedarville, Wash. C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 6 PH Coll 516.2227
The National Lumber & Manufacturing Company was in business from 1920 to 1927, with headquarters and mill in Hoquiam and logging operations first in Cedarville and then, by 1924, in Elma. National Lumber was sold to Polson Lumber Company in 1927. Cedarville is a small settlement near the Chehalis River, eleven miles southeast of Elma, in southeast Grays Harbor County. In 1855, it was established when a blockhouse was built on the land claim of James L. Smith. It was named for nearby Cedar Creek. 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.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Loggers; Trees--Washington (State); Forests--Washington (State); Axes; Lumber industry--Washington (State); National Lumber and Manufacturing Company--People--Washington (State); Grays Harbor County (Wash.); Group portraits
• Subjects (LCSH): Springboards (Logging)--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County