Vintage logging – Women
Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about the women who played their important role in the logging industry.
Flume keeper and family. Likely Sierra Lumber Co. Butte County, Calif.
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1900s Fraser Valley Sawmill, with shore area in foreground and forest in background.
At first, loggers used oxen to haul logs out of the woods. Later, they used horses, which were more intelligent and easier to handle. The teams pulled the logs along skid roads to a river or railroad line.
View of large, fallen and sawed oak located at the intersection of 1st Street and Main Street, Chico, Butte County, California. A woman stands between pieces of log and pushes against it.
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Crew outside kitchen and mess hall cars. Northern Coast Timber Company was in business ca. 1907 to ca. 1915, with logging operations at Kangley and then at Maple Valley.
Kangley is a community on a small tributary of the Green River, eleven miles northeast of Issaquah in southwest King County. It was named by the Northern Pacific Railway for John Kangley, general manager of Northern Pacific Coal Company in 1889. Alternate names were Kangley Junction and Durham Junction. A railroad depot was built in 1906 and abandoned in 1920.
Maple Valley is a community ten miles south of Renton near the Cedar River in central King County. In 1879, the town was founded by George W. Ames of Seattle, and platted in 1890. In 1888, the name was chosen by George Ames, when a post office was established. It was not for the abundant western maple trees in the area, but for the Maple family (Jacob and Samuel), who settled on the Duwamish River before the Denny party arrived at Alki Point.
Fir log 9’8″. Scale 10,000 T. Largest log ever cut in Wallace Lbr. Co. mill, Startup, WA.
Family group at logging camp. The Goodyear Logging Company was in business from ca. 1915 to ca. 1924, headquartered in Clallam Bay. In 1922, there were 175 employees.
Clallam Bay is a community on the east shore of Clallam Bay, Strait of Juan de Fuca, in northwest Clallam County. It was named for the bay, which was listed on British Admiralty Charts in 1846 by Capt. Henry Kellet as Callam, his Anglicized version of the Indian name. The name of the bay, as pronounced by Clallam Indians, might logically be Kla-kla-wice; however, Kellet attempted to reproduce the tribal name, which was S’klah-lam in Clallam dialect, or Do-sklal-ob in Twana, meaning big, strong nation.
Photograph shows Diamond rail operation at Ramsey Bar, Kimshew Country. Shows one long to one car. The young lady/woman is unidentified. ca. 1909-1915.
Rights Information: Feb 28 2019 Special permission granted by the owning institution, California State University, Chico, CA, US, to WoodchuckCanuck.com, for use of this image for historical logging special collection review. Source: http://www.cdlib.org/
