Vintage logging – sawmills
Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about sawmills, interior and scenic exterior photos.
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View of a lumber mill – Likely Richardson’s Mill, Placer County. 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/
In what is now Mount Rainier National Park which was established in 1899.
Log 28 ft long scaled 9000 bd ft, sawed at Puget Mill Company, sawmill interior.
Photograph shows a sawmill in Lyonsville. Written on back: Part of Yellow Jacket Saw Mill around 1887. (Though Yellow Jacket discontinued in 1881, date must be earlier.)
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/
