The Wood and Iverson Lumber Company began in 1896 as a shingle mill, and by 1909, owners William Washington Wood (1868-1932) and Ivar Christian Iverson (1872-1945) had saved enough money to buy timber acreage at Hobart, Washington. In 1915 they opened a large sawmill, complete with a blacksmith shop, a locomotive house, brick dry kilns, a log pond, and a wooden flume more than half a mile long.

Shown here is a panoramic view of the sawmill built in 1915. Wood & Iverson Co. employed roughly 200 men, primarily of Scandinavian ancestry, who felled trees and milled the wood into lumber, shingles, siding, molding, and airplane stock. When William Wood died, his son Russell took over operations. The firm was dissolved after the death of Ivar Iverson, and little remains of the old sawmill site, which is near present-day S.R. 18.

Handwritten on image: Wood and Iverson, Hobert, Wash. E31. Kinsey - Photog, Seattle.
Handwritten in ink on photograph: Sawmill, planing mill, shingle mill and lath mill Wood & Iverson, Inc, Hobart, Wn. 1915. Cutting Douglas Fir, White Fir, Hemlock, Cedar & Spruce