Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor.  Washington: West of the 
Cascades.  Vol. II.  Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917.  p. 
642-643.

	JOHN LEIGH:  John Leigh, sales manager for the 
McCormick Lumber Company of McCormick, has been a resident 
of western Washington since 1900, in which year he arrived from 
Minneapolis.  He is an eastern man by birth, the place of his nativity 
being Easton, Pennsylvania, and his natal year 1872.  At his first 
removal westward he became a resident of Minneapolis and there 
had considerable experience along the line of lumber manufacture 
before he made his way to the northwest.  On coming to 
Washington he first settled in Seattle and afterward removed to 
Tacoma, whence he went to McCormick in 1915 and through the 
intervening period he has acted as sales manager for the McCormick 
Lumber Company, which was organzied in 1900 and was 
incorporated by Harry McCormick, A. N. Riggs, and others.  In 
1908, however, the present owners assumed control of the 
business, the officers being J. E. Wheeler, of Portland, Oregon, 
president; and George D. McCormick, vice president, treasurer and 
manager.  The present mill was built by them and has a capacity of 
one hundred and fifty thousand feet of lumber in ten hours.  They 
also built a shingle mill with a capacity of one hundred and forty 
thousand and their plant includes dry kilns and every modern facility 
connected with the business.  They use power and generate their 
own electricity for lighting the plant and also for lighting the town.  
The town of McCormick was built by this company and includes 
eighty-five houses, each one of which is supplied with electric light 
and water and has a garden plot.  The town has a fully equipped 
sewer system and the company has commodities and attractive office 
buildings and also operates its own store.  Logging camps are also 
conducted by the company and they built ten miles of logging road; 
equipping it with rolling stock.  They employ three hundred and ten 
men in all and they have put forth every effort to make conditions of 
life sanitary and attractive.  A church and a schoolhouse have been 
built and the social feature has not been neglected here.  The 
company has built a storage reservoir for water which obtained from 
springs and which is piped all over the plant.  The company 
manufactures all grades of lumber and cross arms and also gets out a 
fine grade of ship timbers.  In a word, theirs is one of the foremost 
lumber manufacturing enterprises in this section.

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