Bordeaux Logging Company’s Donkey Engine about 1907

The former logging community of Bordeaux, Washington, located in Capitol Forest, was founded in the late 1800s by two brothers. It grew over the years to include a hotel, school, stores, and over 1,000 residents. Logging crew members and family members are posing here in front of a donkey engine. A donkey engine was a steam-powered winch, once widely used in late 19^th to and early 20^th century logging operations.

Unknown photographer, about 1907, Courtesy Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1948.18X.21

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