Farmers often supplemented their income in the winter by selling logs to the local sawmills. This unidentified teamster is preparing to take a sleigh load to the mill. Note the pole used to tighten the chains. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1900. Check out our story on Ross Young, a logger from Harrisville.
“The early logging camps of our company, just after the turn of the century, were located in our original 80,000 acre tract of timberland along the St. Regis River in northern New York.” Circa 1900. Jefferson County in NYS. Originally printed in the St. Regis News Volume 2, Number 9 of September 1974, a newsletter […]
Loggers holding peaveys riding a rail car loaded with logs. This train was used exclusively for bringing logs out of the woods (note small engine). Circa 1890-1900. Benson Mines, NY. Photographer: C.E. Runions. Related story, here.
Loggers holding peaveys, which were used to roll and move logs, posed on a rail car used to move logs and sawn lumber. Circa 1890-1900. Benson Mines, NY. Photographer: C.E. Runions. Related story, here.
Logs were unloaded and floated to the mill on the canal. The train is stopped on a wooden trestle crossing the canal. Circa 1900. Dexter, NY.
Dexter Sulfite Mill’s raceway for floating logs down to the mill. Circa 1903. Dexter, NY.
Bill Smith of Philadelphia drives the team—at Newton Falls Tract logging camp owned by Gould Paper of Lyons Falls. Bill was employed by Jim Weston. 1913. Newton Falls, NY. Photo loaned by Karl Hart of Philadelphia.
Men running logs on an unidentified river in Saint Lawrence County in NYS, circa 1880-1890.
Sixteen (unidentified) men try to break up a log jam. These logs were headed down river during the spring drive to the Canton Lumber Company Mill at the foot of the gorge at High Falls in Pyrites. Circa 1890. Pyrites, NY. Related logging story (in Colton) here.
Higley Falls log jam on Raquette River, circa 1900, Colton, NY. Related article on logging here.
