Reed's Sawmill, Dry Buck, and Reed Bros. Logging Crew
1892 GLO map showing location of Reed & Williams sawmill
Joseph L. Reed bio
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Dry Buck Creek, Joseph L. Reed sawmill | ||
 1892, Ralph Reed on horse in center |
1892, sawmill, Joseph on far left with pike |
 1902 Dry Buck Creek Joseph L Reed camp |
 1918-Jim & Ralph Reed with Logging Horses |
Jim & Ralph Reed with logging team |
 Ed & Ralph Reeds' logging |
1890's Warners Mill, near Cascade |
 Crew at Warners Mill, Ed Reed far right, Ralph Reed on stump |
 Ralph & Ed Reed's tie contract, Warners Mill |
1920,Cascade-Intermountain Railway Jammer working on Reed Bros. job | 1922 Pioneerville and Grimes Creek |
 "1922 Pioneerville, Reed logging crew Hall Gulch" |
 "1922 Pioneerville, Reed logging crew Hall Gulch" |
 "1922 Pioneerville, Ralph Reed logging Hall Gulch" |
"1922 Pioneerville Ralph Reed logging Hall Gulch" |
 "Grimes Creek, Ed & Ralph Reed's logging operation" |
 "Grimes Creek logging job, Jim Reed & Carma Rhodes" | Payette River |
"Payette River, Ralph Reed riding the river" |
 "Payette River, Ralph & Ed Reeds tie drive down river" | |
Hugh Hartman photo collection - Thank you! | ||
Additional reading and background
The Lumber Industry and Logging, by Nellie Ireton Mills
The Payette River is Beautiful but deadly, by Arthur Hart
"Payette River Log Drives,"
"River Tales of Idaho" by Darcy Williamson, Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho, 1997 (google books)
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