#log driving

[wanderrealms]

In a moment of weakness I loaned several books on log driving in 19th century Finland from the library.

[populusfennicapatriam]

Uittotukkeja Arrajärven rannassa. Metsäkylä, Nastola 3.6.1951.

[awkwardbotany]

The Dragon of Yankee Fork: Spalding Viaduct

The Dragon of Yankee Fork: Spalding Viaduct

This is a guest post by Martha Dalke Hindman. It is an excerpt from her upcoming book, The Dragon of Yankee Fork. This is the final of three posts. See also: Devil’s Washbasins and Grave Markers.

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Spalding Viaduct, from the Old Mission site over the Railroad tracks Built in 1924, steel rods, concrete construction, supporting arches and pillars. 570 feet long, 20 feet wide, a Link in U.S.…

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[todaysdocument]

Photograph of Virginia and Rainy Lake Lumber Company in Log Driving Season, 3/8/1922

Series: Historic Photographs, ca. 1880 - ca. 1970. Record Group 95: Records of the Forest Service, 1870 - 2008 

Find more photos from Superior National Forest in the Forest Service’s Historic Photographs series in the @usnatarchives‘ online catalog.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Will Search Lakes For Stray Logs,” Sault Star. March 7 1912. Page 2. ---- COMPANY FORMED TO RECOVER FROM BOOMS --- ONTARIO SALVAGE COMPANY ASKS FOR CHARTER ==== Promoters Will Pay Special Attention to the Recovery of Logs Lost In Lake Superior ---- Under the name of the Ontario Salvage Company a number of Ontario lumber merchants have made application for a charter permitting them to raise and offer for sale sunken and stray logs. During the lumbering operations in Canada and particularly in the north, hundred of logs have broken loose from the immense booms in which they were placed for transportation on the large lakes, have a strayed away and have never been recovered. The aim of the company, which which comprises only a few of the big timber merchants operating in the province to is to collect these stray logs, many of which lie in the little bays and inlets along the shores of the Great Lakes and especially Lake Superior, make them into booms and offer them for sale. Owing to price of timber, the company expects to make a small fortune out of the salvage. The recovery also makes safer the operations of smaller craft which ply on the Great Lakes and waterways. The special sphere of operation of the company will be from the Georgian Bay north, which is mainly in the line of the boom traffic. In case logs other than those owned by members of the company are raised or recovered, same will be returned to the company claiming them in thirty days, provided that the ownership of the logs can be fully proved - a very difficult thing to do. 

The company agrees to keep the boat channels open and to remove stray logs from the usual steamer channels.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Booth’s Big Drive On Montreal River,” Cobalt Daily Nugget. April 20, 1911. Page 02. ----- Placing Booms on Mountain lake --- Elk Lake, April 17. - J. R. Booth’s men have built piers and placed guide booms across Mountain Lake to keep the drive logs from scattering on that water. This work will save a large expense in the spring at this point. Booth has about fifty thousand cords of pulp logs to go from here and about two hundred thousand pieces of this comes out of Bear Creek, necessitating considerable work being done by the township of James in strengthening the Bear Creek bridge built by the council last year.

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[asmallhistory]

The lumbermen are getting ready to drive their logs to the mill. There will be very large drive of logs to come down this spring.

March 31, 1887 Port Clyde community notes, Cape Sable Advertiser (Barrington), March 31, 1887