Look at the size of that load those four horses are pulling.
These are the sleeping quarters. Men brought their axes with them and sharpened them in the evening.
Loggers ate in mess halls. Are those donuts at the end of the table?
This is a group of workers near Akeley, MN. Photographers went from camp to camp and took pictures of the men and sold them to the workers. My step grandmother's father worked in the wood near Akeley when Mae was small. There is a museum dedicated to logging in the village of Akeley.
This is a saw filer. His job was to sharpen the saws for the next days cut.Looking for new employment? Like the out of doors? Willing to work hard?
Try Logging!!!
Check out these wages in a logging camp. There is a strong demand for workers!!!
Employment conditions in this northern section appear to be quite favorable, judging by the demand for loggers and the wage scale established by certain lumber companies who maintain camps in the logging districts, particularly in the vicinity of Bemidji and International Falls. Logging and allied work is being carried on in full capacity, the demand for employee being considerably greater this year than last season and in some places there is even a shortage. Several hundred men are being employed in the woods of Northern Minnesota but WW Hooker, representative of the International Lumber Company with headquarters at Bemidji, who was in the city Saturday stated that there is still a clamor fro more men, indicating that the industry is rather enlarging its capacity.
The following table shows the wage scale set by a certain lumber concern for woodsmen in this section effective January 1 until further notice: Wages are per month of 26 days.
$40.00
General work, swampers, tailing down, roadway monkey, night watchman around camp, section boss, steel gang men, night watchman around camp
$45.00
Skidding teamsters, cross haul teamsters, sawers, saw filers, four horse tote teamsters, section boss, bull cook, buncher, pincher, hooker, landing men, barn boss, bull cook, cookee (appear to be waiters), jammer watchman, two horse teamster sleigh haul
$50.00
Four horse teamster sleigh haul, hooker, top loader sleigh haul, locomotive watchman
$55.00
Handy man
$60.00 to 80.00
Top loader, Cook, small crew
$85.00 to 100.00
Cook, large crew, engineer steam jammer
H. Gregory of Cass Lake, assistant superintendent of logging on the Cass Lake reservation, was attacked by a large, hungry timber wolf one day last week while returning home through the woods and but for his courage and muscle backed by a stout club he would undoubtedly have lost his life. He stunned the animal with one blow and then hammered away until he killed it.
OCTOBER 1909
Soo Line may go to International Falls; will use old logging trails for development
Soo Line may go to International Falls; will use old logging trails for development
JANUARY 1911
David LaCoe killed near Baudette by a falling tree while logging
APRIL 1926
Rosewood News Newell Anderson is home from Rainy River where he has been employed in the logging business.
Isn't it odd they didn't mention black smiths?
Save a tree, do email.
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