Historic Hood River
Logging Crew
5-27-2015
Notes
Here’s the Oregon Lumber Company crew putting the engineering and construction of a local bridge to the test. I believe this was somewhere near their Chenowith mill, along the Little White Salmon river.
Kenn
An example of faith in your fellow mans bridge building abilities and skill, go ahead, I’ll bring up the rear.
Curious where the Little White Salmon has water this still and area so flat, and logic would place the bridge at as narrow a place as possible.
Jim Gray
Wonder if it’s a combination Dam & bridge to form a log pond, might explain calm water on the Little White Salmon
Longshot
Maybe mill pond? The wharf like structure in the foreground looks like it might be designed for dumping logs off into a pond.
L.E.
I wonder if these guys were covered by L&I?
Two years ago Arthur showed us a photo of the Chenowith Mill Pond with a link to an interesting description of the mill and the pond and the building of the flume that ran to the mouth of the Little White Salmon.
https://www.hoodriverhistorymuseum.org?showimage=753
Steve r
Horse count – is it 21 ?
L.E.
Might be a close up of some of these guys in this previous photo.
https://www.hoodriverhistorymuseum.org?showimage=751
I counted 13 Teamsters.
That word Teamsters is how the "Teamsters Union" got started. In the early years of this country, they were a valuable part of moving goods.
Bill Pattison
My take is that it is a mill pond judging fron the log skids on the lower portion of the photo also.
Bill P.