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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: May 7, 2018
Caption: Timber Made This Town Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (top left) A big cedar on the St. Joe being felled by Charles Porret and Caesar Stauffer with the Ducommum boys helping.; (bottom left) Logs were grouped into brails at the "sorting gap" on the St. Joe River, and then towed by tugboat to mills in Harrison and Coeur d'Alene. During the busiest year, the St. Joe Boom Company processed one hundred and sixty million feet of logs through the sorting gap.; (upper center) Draft horses pulling sled of logs in winter, two men riding atop logs.; (bottom right) Men at a gathering place for the river-borne logs.
Submitted: August 29, 2018, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p443227
File Size: 3.574 Megabytes

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