#log driving

The Dragon of Yankee Fork: Spalding Viaduct

This is a guest post by Martha Dalke Hindman. It is an excerpt from her upcoming book, The Dragon of Yankee Fork. This is the final of three posts. See also: Devil’s Washbasins and Grave Markers.

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Spalding Viaduct, from the Old Mission site over the Railroad tracks Built in 1924, steel rods, concrete construction, supporting arches and pillars. 570 feet long, 20 feet wide, a Link in U.S.…

Photograph of Virginia and Rainy Lake Lumber Company in Log Driving Season, 3/8/1922

Series: Historic Photographs, ca. 1880 - ca. 1970. Record Group 95: Records of the Forest Service, 1870 - 2008 

“Will Search Lakes For Stray Logs,” Sault Star. March 7 1912. Page 2. ---- COMPANY FORMED TO RECOVER FROM BOOMS --- ONTARIO SALVAGE COMPANY ASKS FOR CHARTER ==== Promoters Will Pay Special Attention to the Recovery of Logs Lost In Lake Superior ---- Under the name of the Ontario Salvage Company a number of Ontario lumber merchants have made application for a charter permitting them to raise and offer for sale sunken and stray logs. During the lumbering operations in Canada and particularly in the north, hundred of logs have broken loose from the immense booms in which they were placed for transportation on the large lakes, have a strayed away and have never been recovered. The aim of the company, which which comprises only a few of the big timber merchants operating in the province to is to collect these stray logs, many of which lie in the little bays and inlets along the shores of the Great Lakes and especially Lake Superior, make them into booms and offer them for sale. Owing to price of timber, the company expects to make a small fortune out of the salvage. The recovery also makes safer the operations of smaller craft which ply on the Great Lakes and waterways. The special sphere of operation of the company will be from the Georgian Bay north, which is mainly in the line of the boom traffic. In case logs other than those owned by members of the company are raised or recovered, same will be returned to the company claiming them in thirty days, provided that the ownership of the logs can be fully proved - a very difficult thing to do.