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Tour: Historical Photos Logging (Basin Wide) |
Click on image to enlarge (114K). Click here to display a larger version (334K).Mendocino Lumber Company woods circa 1870's as judged by single bit axes. Exact location of photo is unknown but would have been representative of logging in Big River at that time. Photo provided courtesy of the Mendocino Historical Society and the Held Poage Memorial Home and Research Library (from the Collection of Robert Lee). By Ira C. Perry.
Click on image to enlarge (151K). Click here to display a larger version (563K)."Awaiting a freshet." Logs decked at Kelly Gulch near Ramone Creek on Big River waiting for rains to fill splash dams and increase river flows. Note bull team with a skid of logs. Fred Perkins logging operation. Not later than 1880's. Photo provided courtesy of the Mendocino Historical Society and the Held Poage Memorial Home and Research Library (from the Collection of Robert Lee). By Carpenter.
Click on image to enlarge (90K). Click here to display a larger version (419K).Some of the earliest logging in the Big River was in the early 1850's and was conducted using oxen. Note the wooden skid road, which is paved with logs. This is known as a corduroy road. Picture by Jerome Ford c 1851-52. Photo provided courtesy of the Mendocino Historical Society and the Held Poage Memorial Home and Research Library (from the Collection of Robert Lee).
Click on image to enlarge (129K). Click here to display a larger version (401K).Steam donkey's greatly increased the ability to get logs out of the woods and to rail lines or to the river for log drives. Date unknown. Photo provided courtesy of the Mendocino Historical Society and the Held Poage Memorial Home and Research Library (from the Collection of Robert Lee).
Click on image to enlarge (62K). Click here to display a larger version (185K).Early tractor logging caused major damage to stream channels. "Cat 60 and high wheels in a load of logs below Gas Camp on Big River in the 1920's." Union Lumber Company-Georgia-Pacific Collection. Used with permission of the Ft Bragg-Mendocino Coast Historical Society. From Fred Ball.
Click on image to enlarge (132K).View taken from post card. "Giant Redwood, Mendocino County. Height 330 feet, 204 feet to first break, 21 feet-2 inches at stump and 118,141 board feet of lumber." Location and date unknown. Probably 1930-1940's. Photo provided courtesy of the Mendocino Historical Society and the Held Poage Memorial Home and Research Library (from the Collection of Robert Lee).
Click on image to enlarge (104K). Click here to display a larger version (350K).One million board feet. Location and photographer unknown. Photo provided courtesy of the Mendocino Historical Society and the Held Poage Memorial Home and Research Library (from the Collection of Robert Lee).
Click on image to enlarge (137K).Logjam-probably Mallory logs. Big River, 1924. Photo provided courtesy of the Mendocino Historical Society and the Held Poage Memorial Home and Research Library (from the Collection of Robert Lee). #05501, Cordeiro.
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