Editing Hoquiam, Washington (section)

==History==
One of the first logging operations in Hoquiam was established by Ed Campbell in 1872.<ref name=VanSyckle1942>Van Syckle, Ed. A Brief Historical Sketch of Grays Harbor Washington. Chambers of Commerce of Hoquiam and Aberdeen, Washington, 1942.</ref>

About 10 years later, Captain Asa M. Simpson, a Pacific Coast mariner and businessman in the lumber industry from San Francisco, provided the financing for the Northwestern Mill.<ref>Lawrence, Michael. Historic American Engineering Record: Hoquiam River Bridge, National Park Service, 1993.</ref> In 1881, Simpson sent his manager, George Emerson, to Hoquiam to establish a mill there, and Emerson purchased 300 acres for the new mill and lumber operation. By September 1882, the Simpson mill was producing its first lumber products.<ref name=VanSyckle1942/>
[[File:Hoquiam, Washington (circa 1884).jpg|thumb|left|Eighth Street, 1884]]

In 1886, Captain Simpson merged his mill with the Miller Brothers mill, also located in Hoquiam, and named it the Northwest Lumber Company.<ref>Prosser, William Farrand. A History of the Puget Sound Country: Its Resources, Its commerce and Its People: with Some Reference to Discoveries and Explorations in North America from the Time of Christopher Columbus Down to that of George Vancouver in 1792, Lewis Publishing Company, 1903. [https://archive.org/details/ahistorypugetso00prosgoog <!-- quote=history of hoquiam washington. -->]</ref> The mill was later renamed the Simpson Lumber Company, and retained that name until 1906. In 1913, Frank J. Shields became the new manager at the mill at Hoquiam.<ref>Hunt, Herbet & Floyd C. Kaylor. Washington, West of the Cascades: Historical and Descriptive; the explorers, the Indians, the Pioneers, the Modern, Volume 3. S.J. Clarke publishing company, 1917 [https://books.google.com/books?id=dX4UAAAAYAAJ&q=Hoquiam&pg=PA5]</ref>

The extension of the railroad from Aberdeen to Hoquiam, beginning in 1898, contributed to the continued importance of logging and lumber in Hoquiam.<ref name=VanSyckle1942/> The importance of logging and related products continued to be relevant to Hoquiam's economy, and in 1927, a pulp mill was established under the name of Grays Harbor Pulp Company. A year later, a Pennsylvania company- the [[Hammermill Paper Company]]- became interested in Grays Harbor Pulp Company. When the Pennsylvania company bought stock in the Grays Harbor Pulp Company, the Grays Harbor pulp Company built a paper mill and became the Grays Harbor Pulp & Paper Company. In 1936, the Grays Harbor Pulp and Paper Company merged with Rayonier Incorporated,<ref name=VanSyckle1942/> a company which manufactured a certain kind of wood pulp used by its customers to produce rayon.<ref>Ficken, Robert E. The Forested Land: A History of Lumbering in Western Washington. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1987.</ref>

In 1907, Hoquiam was home to [[Industrial Workers of the World]] Industrial Union No. 276.<ref name="IUB V1 N26">{{cite news|author=<!-- No author listed. -->|publication-date=August 24, 1907|title=Statement of Receipts and Expenditures|volume=1|issue=26|page=3|newspaper=[[Industrial Union Bulletin]]|url=https://archive.org/details/v1n26-aug-24-1907-iub}}</ref>