White Pine logs waiting to be sent to the flume.
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Decked logs waiting to be send down the river to the mill. Logs were cut during the winter months. In the spring when creeks and rivers were swollen with melting snow the logs were sent downstream to a larger river or lake where they would be towed to a mill. Courtesy of the Museum of North Idaho.
This file appears in: The River Pigs of Logging
The River Pigs of Logging
The River Pigs of Logging
The remote virgin forests of northern Idaho represented a fortune in timber--if it could be brought to market. In areas not immediately adjacent to a railroad, the fast-moving rivers offered an economical way to get…
