[or-roots] Logging camps

Sally Yarbrough sallyya at frontiernet.net
Sat Jan 28 08:56:30 PST 2012


A good book on the subject of logging camps "The Lady and the 
Lumberjack" by Olive Barber it is about a logging camp in the coos 
bay curry county area published in 1952.
Sally in southern Oregon

At 08:42 PM 1/27/2012, you wrote:
>I have been trying to find out for years if there was ever a large 
>logging camp near Portland in the 1917 to 1919 time frame.? My 
>grandmother was a cook in a logging camp at that time and that is 
>where she met my grandfather who was also a cook in the same logging 
>camp.? I have a photo of some of the loggers standing in the camp 
>near a building but can't identify it.? It is one of those old wide, 
>about 12 inches wide by about 3-1/2 inches tall.? I have several of 
>those old photos from the time frame of about 1910 to 1920.
>I sure would like to know the name of the logging camp and if there 
>is any information about it.
>Dale in California




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