0094 – Cedergreen and Smith Logging Camp with crew
2/03
Wesley J. Smith; 9/76; r-AP 8.75x6.75; CN5,13; L
0093 – At dinner, Cedergreen Bros. Camp, Monroe
Jess Smith at back, last one on the right side. Loggers ate plenty and well, and the camps that served the best food got the best men. Chopping a tree at a moderate rate of 35 strokes a minute would burn 10 calories a minute compared to drilling coal at 6.1 calories, or general housework at about 2.5, or sitting at a desk typing at 1.4. And this did not include the calories needed to just keep warm in wet, cold conditions. Anecdotal evidence suggests that at times some loggers consumed as much as 9,000 calories a day although the norm was less. Regardless, loggers needed a lot of provender to fuel their ten hour workday and demanded and received the best food then available. For a full discussion of food in the logging camps, see “Old Boy, Did You Get Enough Pie? A Social History of Food in Logging Camps,” by Joseph R. Conlin in the ‘Journal of Forest History’ vol. 23, no. 4, Oct. 1979. Axtell Photo, 110 West Main, Seattle, N300. 4/04
Wesley J. Smith; 9/76; r-CN6,10,15 and
*Darrell (Buzz) Smith; 4/01; r-8.5x6.25 m: D
B: Harold Day from Sarah Leyde; 1/06; 8.5x6.25; O; L
0092 – Crew standing on a huge log at the Cedergreen and Smith Logging Camp near Monroe
Skid greaser standing at center with horse team behind. 2/03
Wesley J. Smith; 9/76; r-AP 8.5x6.5; CN5,13; L
0091 – Log on skid row being hauled by a donkey engine at the Jess Smith Logging Camp c1915
Written on the photo on the end of the log: “Scale 4,000 ft Yarded and Hauled with R & V. 20 HP engine Jess Smith Camp.” Mrs. Jess (Mabel) Smith is standing at center. 2/03
Wesley J. Smith; 9/76; r-AP 9.5x7; CN15; L
0090 – High Rock Lumber Company with crew c1921
Photo date in margin 1921-24. Although so identified in the photo, this mill was probably the High Bridge Mill, which closed in 1923, and was part of Stephens-Bird Lumber Company, which acquired the High Rock Logging Company, date uncertain. Copy negatives include close-up of the crew. Darius Kinsey, Seattle, photo #2545, which was probably an 11x14 print. 4/04
Wesley J. Smith; 9/76; r-AP 9x6.5; CN15; L
0089 – Jess Smith Logging Camp south of Monroe about 1915 with horse team and skid row
Jess Smith and his wife, Mabel (Cedergreen) Smith, second and third from left. 2/03
Wesley J. Smith; 9/76; r-AP 9.25x7; CN15; L