Vintage logging – Flumes
Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos looks at the flumes used to transport lumber and logs over uneven terrain of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Be sure to click on each picture to see the larger images. I actually only have 9 images of flumes this week, so the first one is simply to make up a group of 10 images.
Rockport, California. Log was eccentric and at large end measured 6 1/2 ft. x 9 1/2 ft. and 20 ft. long. Average diameter at small end 76 inches. Center was 2 ft. from one side and 7 1/2 ft. from the opposite.
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: cdlib.org
Photograph shows A. M. Leach flume and the Oak Gulch Mill in Humboldt County, California.
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: cdlib.org
Rocky Point flume station near Big Bend, Butte County, California.
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: cdlib.org
Pulling lumber from a flume – likely Sierra Lumber Company, Butte County, California.
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: cdlib.org
110 foot trestle of the Sierra Lumber Company flume from Chico Meadows or Chico Soda Springs to Chico. Sierra Lumber Company floated logs down this flume to their mill on Humboldt Road. Mill was destroyed by fire around 1904.
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: cdlib.org
Pulling lumber from a flume – likely Sierra Lumber Company, Butte County, California.
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: cdlib.org
Flume damper. Potlatch Forests, Incorporated formed in 1931, when the Potlatch Lumber Company, Edward Rutledge Timber Company of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and the Clearwater Timber Company of Lewiston, Idaho merged. The new company had headquarters in Lewiston, Idaho. Potlatch Forests, Inc. had camps in several Idaho and eastern Washington towns, including Bovill, Potlatch, and Elk River, Idaho and Colfax and Spokane, Washington. In 1973, the company’s name was changed to the Potlatch Corporation. In 1997, the company moved its corporate headquarters to Spokane, Washington. Today, the Potlatch Corporation is a Real Estate Investment Trust with forest land in Arkansas, Idaho, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
Sierra Lumber Company flume in Iron Canyon, Chico, California.
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: cdlib.org
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