1900 Lumber wagon pulled by horses.
Vintage Logging

Vintage Logging – Stacks of lumber

Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about the stacks of lumber that were made over the year.

1896 Haines Lumber Mill, Succotash Valley.
1896 Haines Lumber Mill, Succotash Valley.

In what is now Mount Rainier National Park which was established in 1899.

1898 Lumber transportation at Cohasset Mill.
1898 Lumber transportation at Cohasset Mill.

Photograph shows team of mules pulling wagons in lumber yard of Cohasset Mill.

1899 Port Ludlow, Wash. June 16
1899 Port Ludlow, Wash. June 16.

1899 Port Ludlow, Wash. June 16. Lumber mill with stacks of lumber.

1900 Lumber wagon.
1900 Lumber wagon.

1900 Lumber wagon pulled by horses.

1900 Pulling lumber from a flume.
1900 Pulling lumber from a flume.

Likely Sierra Lumber Company, Butte County, California.

1907 Southern Pine Lumber Co. stacks and stacks of lumber.
1907 Southern Pine Lumber Co. stacks and stacks of lumber.
1912 Lumber Sheds along the railway.
1912 Lumber Sheds.

One of the few photos I have seen in a commercial/industrial setting where the lumber was vertically stacked.

Meadow River Lumber Company, Rainelle, WV
Meadow River Lumber Company, Rainelle, WV
Camaroon United Forests products.
Camaroon United Forests products.

A more current picture, just here because of its uniqueness.

A straddle car.
A straddle car.

A straddle car carrying lumber stacks.

A Newfoundland born Canadian with a life long interest in woodworking, baking and anything else that peaks my curiosity.

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