File:Manley-Moore Lumber Company mill crew, including Asian workers, with hats off, ca 1927 (KINSEY 356).jpg

Caption on image: M&M Lmbr Co. C. Kinsey Photo. No. 7 PH Coll 516.1967

Manley-Moore Lumber Company was in business from ca. 1910 to ca. 1934, first in Arline and then in the town of Manley-Moore, near Fairfax. In about 1900 Orville Biggs built a sawmill at Arline. Robert D. Moore partnered with J.E. Manley and August Von Boecklin, and the Manley-Moore Lumber Company bought Arline Mills in 1907 and operated there until about 1910, selling out to Merrick-Robb Lumber Co. In 1909 the Manley-Moore Lumber Company moved its operations to a tract of old growth timber east of Fairfax in eastern Pierce County. The company built a large sawmill, a lumber yard, and buildings for workers on the south side of the Carbon River, and the town was named Manley-Moore. The plant operated until the early 1930s when it was closed. Manley-Moore had many outstanding debts and were forced to sell the company to a Mr. Gailbraith from the Eatonville Lumber Company. The Manley-Moore Lumber Company mill was built in 1910. At 1,600 feet above sea level, it had the distinction of being the highest mill in the State of Washington at that time. Built on the south bank of the Carbon River, the mill diverted some of the flow of the river into a millpond just up from the mill. On the far side of the mill a spot had been cleared for a lumberyard. From the mill a standard gauge railroad track ran across Evans Creek to Fairfax. From Fairfax, the mill shippped out the lumber on the Northern Pacific Railway. The mill suffered a severe fire in 1918, but continued to operated until the early 1930s.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Lumber industry--Washington (State); Manley-Moore Lumber Company--People--Washington (State); Manley-Moore Lumber Company--Facilities--Washington (State)
• Subjects (LCSH): Sawmill workers--Washington (State)--Pierce County; Asian Americans--Washington (State)--Pierce County; Sawmills--Washington (State)--Pierce County