Historic Hood River
Tee Time
5-5-2014
Notes
In May 1931 the ladies of the Hood River Country club hosted the ladies from the Dalles Country Club.
The History Museum of Hood River County
Bringing the Rich History of Hood River County to Life
The History Museum of Hood River County
Bringing the Rich History of Hood River County to Life
In May 1931 the ladies of the Hood River Country club hosted the ladies from the Dalles Country Club.
Charlott
I see 20
l.e.
Sometimes I count 19, sometimes 21.
One guy is barefoot.
Amazing construction.
Looks like Hemlock trees growing on the backside?
It looks so sturdy that it makes me think it was not abandoned but torn down for the lumber.
Kenn
An amazing structure, It would be interesting to know the location, length and height.
The Willard flume had a tripwire, a gate diverted the water into Drano lake. The lumber was stacked onto a platform at the gate until the flume could be restored. The remains of the platform or dock were still evident a few years ago.
l.e.
Kenn….if you don’t mind my asking….
Who are you, that you know so much about the history of the area??
Ellen Dittebrandt
20
Kenn
Just an amateur historian, mainly interested in gorge and transportation history from the Rockies to the west coast. I have spent decades prowling the gorge, the gorge wagon road and the Barlow on Mt Hood, nosey I guess. Hope I am not intruding with my comments on this site.
l.e.
21
Kenn…I’m not sure anyone can intrude on this site when they have knowledge about the history of the area.
It is especially valuable in the future for people who come to this site searching for information.
I find it fascinating that you have such detailed knowledge about gorge history.
As in photo #758 and the number of drowned trees in the submerged forest.
Most people don’t even know about the submerged forest much less how many trees.
Arthur
Keep the comments coming Kenn.
We’ll need to plan a summer HHR field trip to search for flume evidence. Or poison oak.
Scott Cook
Kenn DOES know things! I’ll help with Field trips if folks want to go see stuffs.
l.e.
Googling around trying to get a timeline in my head of who owned what mills and when, I have seen several photos of what is suppose to be the flume at Bull Run built some time around 1911, by I think, the Davenport family who had earlier sold to Oregon Lumber Co., which then sold to Stanley-Smith.
I know a flume is a flume, but this one looks very similar to the Bull Run flume.
J. Frank Davenport was definitely known as a flume builder and went broke trying to build flumes to get irrigation water to HR Valley.
l.e.
Has anyone heard of Bergertown?
From the Oct. 1915 Timberman:
"The Hood river forest Products Co., recently organized at Hood River, Ore., is building a circular mill at Bergertown, four miles above Belmont, Ore., on the line of the flume of the Stanley-Smith Co. A.A. Lausmann, formerly with the Stanley-Smith Lumber Co., Hood river, is president. F.E. Newby is secretary and treasurer of the new company. "
l.e.
Boy….you weren’t joking Arthur:
From January 13, 1918 Sunday Oregonian:
Hood River Lumberman Finds Disadvantage in Warm Winter.
Hood River, Or., Jan 12—(Special)—-A.A. Lausmann, a local lumberman, is suffering from a severe attack of poison oak rash, with which he became infected in a most unique manner.
Mr Lausmann is residing near the mill operated by himself and his brother J.H. Lausmann, near the Mitchells Point tunnel on the Columbia River Highway. The recent warm weather caused the sap to rise in the poison oak bushes that grow luxuriantly in the vicinity. Long, new, juicy shoots have sprung from every shrub. Recent warm rains, splattering down on the fresh shoots have carried the poison virus into a spring furnishing bath water to the Lausmann cottage.
After a warm bath one night Mr. Lausmann’s body was covered with the stinging blisters of the poison. For several days the swelling made him totally blind and the itching was almost unbearable. The water system has been abandoned.
Steve r
Kenn – does ur last name starts w an "L". ? 10 on top 11 below
Arthur
My count is 21.
Lausmann now has a state park named after him, and it includes some very old trails that are choked with poison oak. I’ve never heard of it growing in January, though. Poor man.
l.e.
From Oregon Live:
In the first decade of the 1900s, Oregon’s population grew by nearly two-thirds as the state’s economy took off once again. Wheat was the major crop, while timber barons like Simon Benson pioneered the technology used to wrest trees from remote hillsides.
It was a muscular world that produced awe-inspiring sights. In Hood River, for example, the Stanley Smith Lumber Co. built the world’s only level log flume, a humongous network of trip gates, holding ponds and sluice flumes that stretched for six miles.
http://www.oregonlive.com/century/1900_index.html
Kenn
Steve, you have the right name, Kenn L. I have spent years prowling the gorge and Mt Hood with your dad, a top trail tender, hike leader and Mazama.