Editing Darrington, Washington (section)

===Establishment and early development===
[[File:Packtrain at the Montegue and Moore store in Darrington, Washington, ca 1905 (WASTATE 487).jpeg|thumb|right|A group of [[packhorse]]s pictured outside a [[general store]] in Darrington, {{circa}} 1905]]
The Sauk Prairie campsite evolved into a settlement that was known as "The Portage" and developed around several homesteads established between 1888 and 1891.<ref>{{cite news |date=August 2, 1972 |title=Darrington history dates back to 1888 |page=21 |work=The Arlington Times}}</ref> A vote on a name was held by several pioneer residents in July 1891 in advance of the establishment of a [[post office]].{{sfnp|Poehlman|1979|pages=59–61}} The vote was tied between two options, Portage (in some accounts, Norma) and Darrington, the [[maiden name]] of settler W. W. Cristopher's mother.{{sfnp|Poehlman|1979|pages=59–61}}<ref>{{cite news |date=July 3, 2002 |title=How local towns got their names |page=A6 |work=The Arlington Times |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nr4kAAAAIBAJ&pg=2428%2C2636723 |via=Google News Archive |access-date=March 9, 2019}}</ref> According to some reports, the name was originally to be "Barrington" but was changed due to a mistake from the [[United States Post Office Department|Postal Department]] or by the townspeople to resemble the word "dare".<ref name="Times-South72">{{cite news |last=Johnsrud |first=Byron |date=August 27, 1972 |title=There's a touch of the South about bucolic Darrington |pages=8–9 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Meany |first=Edmond S. |author-link=Edmond S. Meany |year=1923 |title=Origin of Washington Geographic Names |page=63 |publisher=[[University of Washington Press]] |oclc=1963675 |jstor=40474558 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001444300 |via=[[HathiTrust]] |access-date=February 28, 2019}}</ref> By the end of the decade, the town had gained a [[school]]house, a [[general store]], a [[hotel]], and a [[postmaster]], Fred Olds, whose horse inspired the naming of [[Whitehorse Mountain (Washington)|Whitehorse Mountain]].<ref name="HistoryLink"/>{{sfnp|Beckey|2003|page=129}}

Darrington's residents lobbied the [[Seattle and International Railway]] for the construction of a [[branch line]] from [[Arlington, Washington|Arlington]] to the town as early as 1895,{{sfnp|Poehlman|1979|page=42}} offering a 15-year contract to ship 75 percent of the area's extracted [[ore]]s. The railroad agreed to the offer and began construction in 1900. It later merged with the Northern Pacific Railway, outpacing [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern]] and their plans to build a railroad to their timber holdings in the Sauk River valley.{{sfnp|Poehlman|1979|pages=47–50}} Railway crews arrived in the Darrington area by the following year and the first train arrived at the town's depot in 1901.<ref name="Whitfield1926">{{cite book |last=Whitfield |first=William M. |year=1926 |title=History of Snohomish County, Washington |publisher=Pioneer Historical Publishing Company |location=Chicago |pages=552–556 |oclc=8437390 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102122401 |via=HathiTrust |access-date=March 1, 2019}}</ref>

Several [[sawmill]]s and other timber industries began in the years following the railroad's completion, as mining fortunes in the surrounding area dwindled.<ref name="Whitfield1926"/> Most of the original prospectors had left the Darrington area during the [[Klondike gold rush]] of the late 1890s, while those who remained established a single [[smelter]] in the mountains.{{sfnp|Poehlman|1979|page=43}} A [[Bornite]] mine was later developed at Long Mountain in hopes of reviving mining in the area, but was abandoned after its mineral deposits were found to be smaller than expected.<ref name="History1906"/>{{sfnp|Poehlman|1979|page=46}} By 1906, Darrington had more than a hundred residents; a second hotel and the town's first [[social club]] had been built.<ref name="HistoryLink"/><ref name="Poehlman-RR"/> The U.S. Lumber Company, which began in 1901 as the Allen Mill, was the largest employer in Darrington during the early 1910s, producing 23,000 [[board feet]] (54.28 m{{sup|3}}) of wood per day.{{sfnp|Poehlman|1979|pages=53–55}}

U.S. Lumber angered the townspeople by hiring 21 [[Japanese American|Japanese]] laborers at similar wages to their white counterparts. In June 1910, a mob of white men [[race riot|rioted]] and drove the Japanese out of town after little resistance, paying for their train fare to Everett after allowing them to retrieve their belongings.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 15, 1910 |title=Japanese Will Be Put Under Protection |page=4 |work=[[Oregon Statesman]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29373107/japanese_will_be_put_under_protection/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=March 10, 2019}}</ref> A report by Seattle-based vice-consul Kinjiro Hayashi was forwarded to the [[Japanese Ambassador to the United States|Japanese ambassador]] and state government.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 16, 1910 |title=Japanese Envoy Asked to Act in Darrington Case |page=4 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> The company filed for an [[court injunction|injunction]] after rioters had threatened to burn its Darrington mill and other properties should it attempt to return the Japanese laborers.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 18, 1910 |title=Darrington Mill Company to Ask For Injunction |page=1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> The injunction was denied,<ref>{{cite news |date=June 17, 1910 |title=No Injunction to Protect Japanese |page=6 |work=[[The Tacoma Times]]}}</ref> but the townspeople relented and allowed 20 Japanese laborers to return to the mill a week later following [[Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu]]'s visit to Seattle.<ref name="HistoryLink"/>{{sfnp|Poehlman|1979|pages=53–55}}<ref>{{cite news |date=June 19, 1910 |title=Wait For Departure of Prince Fushimi |page=3 |work=[[The Billings Gazette]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29374278/wait_for_departure_of_prince_fushimi/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=March 10, 2019}}</ref>