Clark & Lyford Company photograph album, approximately 1917

The harbor of Ragged Islands is formed on the west side by a group of islands and on the east by the mainland. The entrances at the north and south enable log rafts to be taken in from either direction, and to pass out at the opposite end. The harbor is thoroughly protected from all winds.

View of item PH1395.10 from a different angle.

From accompanying materials: Views show approximately 1,500,000 feet of fir, cedar and hemlock logs in the standing boom. The land on which this timber was cut is one of the oldest Crown Grants in this vicinity.

The landing was made here to allow easy access to Surveyed Timber Limit 40772, one of the tracts owned by Clark and Lyford, Ltd.

The firs are between 3 to 4 1/2 feet in diameter.

The sizes of these three varieties approximately indicate the proportions of the several varieties of timber on this Surveyed Timber Limit.

A steam donkey engine was an integrated machine consisting of a power plant and gearing that turned one or more drums or winches containing wire rope. Designed to lift, drag, and move logs from the stump to an accumulation point, steam donkey engines were also used to load logs on cars that transported them to distant mill sites.

Same view as PH1395.27 shown from a different angle.

The unloading is done by means of a simple device of a series of wire ropes passed under the logs, which are pulled taut by another wire rope attached to the locomotive, which by simply slacking ahead a few yards lifts several loads at once to an angle of 45 degrees. Then the logs roll into the water simultaneously and with that one motion, the lateral ropes relax, are loosened by hand, and weights attached at opposite ends automatically drag the ropes back beyond the track. The locomotive then couples to the train, pulls the second half to a similar position train of eight long carloads in two motions, taking ten minutes for the entire operation.

Logs on last half of the same train as shown in image PH1395.32

Swifters are floor logs parallel to the boom sticks used as a means of tying boom sticks together to prevent them from spreading while being towed.

Similar view as PH1395.129a

Seabird Lake provided very favorable facilities for holding and sorting logs from the timber tributary to it fresh water, where they could be held for a considerable time without injury. Logs delivered in salt water must be marketed within three or four months, although they may occasionally be held as long as six months, depending on the locality and season.

From accompanying materials: Illustration of lands cut over for Douglas fir and cedar with the hemlock remaining. Opening up the forest resulted in dense reproduction of hemlock with a smaller proportion of cedar intermixed.

Same log boom from the end as in image PH1395.52.

TheTootsie was manufactured and sold by C.M. Lovsted & Co. Seattle, Washington

Bucking is the process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs

Close-up view of hand fallers shown in PH1395.64

The logging camp buildings are on log floats so they can quickly and easily be moved by releasing the shore lines and towing the whole camp intact to its new location quickly and inexpensively.

A swing donkey is a steam donkey used to supplement another steam donkey over a long haul.

PH1395.58 through PH1395.68 were taken in the forest shown in this photograph.

This bunk house is typical of the better class of British Columbia logging camps, showing double steel bunks for 40 men, stove, clothing on lines, etc.

Panorama consists of PH1395.79 and PH1395.80

Panorama consists of PH1395.79 and PH1395.80

Creasy Bay is located 210 miles northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia

The plant was located 75 miles north of Vancouver, British Columbia.

The cars are 15 to 16 feet wide and 40 to 60 feet long.

A logged over timber limit showing is a type of a logging operation which left the boundaries clearly defined by the standing timber above and on either side.

Image PH1395.117 is horizontal view

Same image as PH1395.1

Similar image as PH1395.34