University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
White Pine: King of Many Waters collection
Strong, Clarence C. (Clarence Charles), 1895-1982
Webb, Clyde S., 1889-
MG 069
1.5 cubic feet
1964-1970
Research materials, correspondence between authors Clarence Strong and Clyde Webb, photographs, and drafts of the manuscript of White pine: King of many waters, a history of lumbering in the Inland Northwest published in 1970.
English
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White Pine: King of Many Waters, published by Mountain Press, Missoula, Montana, in 1970, is a history of logging, sawmilling, and shingle manufacturing in the Idaho counties of Kootenai, Benewah, and Shoshone, and is the culmination of a six year research project of two retired foresters, Clarence Strong and Clyde Webb. Some of their research was done at the University of Idaho library and the library was fortunate enough to become the recipient of their materials.
Included among these materials are 137 photographs, many of which were not used in the book, both holograph and typed notes, newspaper articles on the timber industry, correspondence with informants, often relatives of prominent lumbermen, and the correspondence between the two authors. This correspondence begins with Strong's letter to Webb on July 28, 1964 in which he sets out his ideas for the book and asks Webb if he would be willing to assist with the research, and continues throughout the many fact finding trips, the attempts to find a publisher, and the final publication and distribution of the book. The final items in this group are typescripts of two drafts of the text.
The contents of this archival group are related in more detail in the following Description of Series.
Parts of this collection have been digitized and is avaiable at the White Pine - King of Many Waters Collection.
White Pine: King of Many Waters, published by Mountain Press, Missoula, Montana, in 1970, is a history of logging, sawmilling, and shingle manufacturing in the Idaho counties of Kootenai, Benewah, and Shoshone, and is the culmination of a six year research project of two retired foresters, Clarence Strong and Clyde Webb. Some of their research was done at the University of Idaho library and the library was fortunate enough to become the recipient of their materials.
Collection is open for research.
Materials in this group are arranged by type. The research material in the first series is in the order in which it was received from the authors, newspapers and newspaper clippings are arranged by the city where the newspaper was published, Coeur d'Alene, Harrison, or Spokane, and then arranged chronologically. Small clippings have been mounted, larger items, 1/2 sheet or larger, have not been mounted. Correspondence between the two authors forms part of the correspondence file; these letters are in chronological order. The remainder of the correspondence is in alphabetical order by correspondent.
Many of the photographs in this collection were numbered and cataloged when the collection was received in 1971. In 1980 more photographs were received, some duplicated what had been received earlier and were given the same number, the rest were numbered and cataloged when this inventory was prepared.
Material collected by Clarence Strong and Clyde Webb for White Pine: King Of Many Waters, 1964-1970.
Photographer, "Title," date. Collection name, object ID. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.
Author, Description or "Title" of item, date. Collection name, collection number, box, folder. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.
Kootenai County (Idaho)
Shoshone County (Idaho)
Benewah County (Idaho)
Coeur d'Alene (Idaho)
Lumber
Missoula
Logging
Idaho
Research Notes
I
In compiling the data for White Pine: King of Many Waters the authors spent many tedious hours copying information on sawmill locations and output, mill and lumber yard fires, and other historical material from old newspapers and lumber trade journals. They also spend many interesting and enjoyable hours interviewing the old-timers who were present in the Coeur d'Alenes during the early days of lumbering.
The material compiled includes charts of incorporation records which list the name of the firm, the names of the incorporators, the date of incorporation, the capitalization, and the place of business for concerns in Benewah and Kootenai counties. There are also listings from the tax rolls of Kootenai, Benewah, and Shoshone counties. Then there is a folder listing lumber mills found in various editions of the Polk Directory, West Coast Lumbermans Directory, Handbook and Directory of the Forest Industry, and the Timberman and Lumbermans Directory of Lumber and Sawmills.
There are two typescripts of articles on mining in the Coeur d'Alenes, "First-hand accounts tell of the colorful beginning of mining in the Coeur d'Alenes," by Joel E. Ferris (23 p.), and Eugene V. Smalley's article which appeared in an 1884 Century magazine, "The Coeur d'Alene stampede; the Pritchard-Murray Gold Rush," (21 p.):
The manuscript notes include statistics on logging railroad mileage and flume mileage, a list of people interviewed, and notes from various printed sources. The notes are on loose sheets of paper, each one dated, identified as to the place where the notes were made, and the source of information. These include not only the notes made in libraries, but also contain the notes made during personal interviews. Another set of notes contains information on sawmill construction taken from trade journals or newspapers dating from 1894 to 1909.
The typed notes contain the same type of material found in the manuscript notes, and in some cases duplicate it.
Lumber Companies - Directory Listings
1
1
Notes - Manuscript
1
2
Mining
1954
1
3
Lumber Companies by County
1
4
Manuscript - From Newspapers
1
5
Notes - Typed
1965
1
6
Newspaper Clippings
II
The material in this series has been divided into several folders, Miscellaneous newspapers, The Harrison Searchlight, Coeur d'Alene Press, Spokane papers, and The Authors and the Book.
The items in the miscellaneous folder include several advertisements for forest products, obituaries of lumbermen, the log marks (brands) of the Coeur d'Alene Log Owners Association, the January-February 1959 issue of Western Conservation Journal, and the following articles: Oscar W. Blake, "Bull Punchers of the lumber camps," Old West, Summer 1965, Pp.32-35; "Company sawmill shut down; sixty-six year operation closed," Bunker Hill Reporter, July 1966, P.1; Charles Cook, "History of Blanchard, Idaho," (1959) 4 p.; and Ed. Rosenlund, "Perl Bailey: with axe and saw he helped to carve a western empire," Match Tips August 1963.
The Harrison Searchlight, which was published each July in time for the old-timers' picnic, contains articles of historical interest. The issues in this folder are for the years 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972.
Each year the Coeur d'Alene Press published special supplements containing articles on the early history of north Idaho. The following supplements are available in this collection:
February 28, 1959, containing articles on the history of Coeur d'Alene City, Post Falls, the Cataldo Mission, steamboats, and lumbering. Centennial Edition, 1963, sections 2 and 4, with articles on the Mullan Road, General Sherman, Frederick Post, the Cataldo Mission and the Rutledge Mill. April 25, 1964, includes articles on the lumber industry and the Mullan road. April 30, 1966, with articles on Fort Sherman and the Cataldo Mission.
April 27, 1968, "Focus on North Idaho" in two sections, one entitled "Lumbering" the other "Historical".
April 26, 1969, "The Face of North Idaho" with "Lumbering" and "Historical" sections.
The articles clipped from the Spokane papers include articles on lumber companies, mill fires, an article and obituary notice on John Judson Pugh, two articles on the forest industries from the January 28, 1968 Spokesman Review Annual Progress Magazine, an article on tug boats, and one on the "Last free-running log drive in the West."
The final folder, entitled "The Authors and the Book" contains the following articles: "Lumbering history project is planned," unidentified, 12/9/1966; "Webb will discuss early-day lumbering," Coeur d'Alene Press. 1/16/1968; "Former foresters due here tonight," Coeur d'Alene Press, 3/20/1970; "Old-timers relate saga of early-day lumbering," by Tom Burnett, Spokesman-Review, 11/16/1970; and a portion of an unidentified newsletter describing an autograph party, "Clarence Strong and Clyde Webb sign."
The Authors and the Book
1966-1970
1
7
Spokane Papers
1946-1969
1
8
Coeur d'Alene Papers
1958-1969
1
9
Harrison Searchlight
1963-1972
The Harrison Searchlight, which was published each July in time for the old-timers' picnic, contains articles of historical interest. The issues in this folder are for the years 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972.
1
10
Miscellaneous
1
18
Correspondence
III
Ferrell
1949-1967
Reverend Dick Ferrell, who early in his life was a prize fighter and a blacksmith, later became a minister and spent many years preaching in the lumber camps of northern Idaho. The items in this folder include a letter from Mrs. Ferrell to Clarence Strong dated June 24, 1967, portions of four circular letters telling of Ferrell's experiences in the camps, a mimeographed typescript of Rafe Gibbs' article "Fighting Parson of the Pines" which was published in Sunday Digest, April 6, 1953, Thorp McClusky's "Timberland Parish" reprinted from Presbyterian Life of September 17, 1949, and a portion of a letter from Neil Fullerton in which he tells of his acquaintance with Dick Ferrell.
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Fullerton
1966-1968
The letters from Neil Fullerton to Clarence Strong, written between 1966 and 1968, contain information on whip saws and sawing, goose necks (used to slow down logs in chutes), and information on early mills in the Coeur d'Alenes.
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12
Porterfield
1965-1968
This folder contains two letters from Andy Porterfield, one dated October 21, 1965 to Clyde Webb, and the other, March 23, 1968, to Neil Fullerton. Also included are two sets of notes on early mills in the Coeur d'Alene region written by Porterfield and several pages of comments by Webb on these notes.
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A-Z
1964-1971
The following is an alphabetical list of correspondents with the years for which letters are present. The file cards maintained for this series give the exact dates and subjects of the letters.
-----, Bill. 1970
Avery, Mila. 1968
Broeder, Fred. 1968
Carlson, Roger. 1968
Cook, Fulton. 1968
Crawford, Robert T. 1965
Culp, J.R.M. 1965, 1970
Curtis, A.B. 1967
Davis, Kenneth P. 1970
Day, Henry L. 1965, 1966, 1968
Drake, Howard. 1970
Elder, Paul M. 1967
Farr, Sol. 1965
Ferrell. Leona (Mrs. Richard T.) 1969
Grant, R.W. 1972
Hammes, Robert. 1967
Hensley, Mrs. Howard. 1968
Hildebrand, Irma. 1968
Hutchinson, S. Blair. 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968
Keeney, Ken A. 1969
Kizer, Benjamin H. 1966
Kottkey, Henry S. 1966
Krueger, Carl G. 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969
Malsed, Helen Herrick. 1968, 1969, 1971
Maunder, Elwood R. 1964
May, Arthur S. 1970
Miller, Clyde J. 1969
Miller, Joseph A. 1964, 1965
Miller, Wilson C. 1965
Mollendorf, Helen (Mrs. A.R.) 1969
Morbeck, Don. 1968, 1969, 1970
Nelson, Neal D. 1966
Oregon State University Press. 1969
Pederson, Clem J. 1967
Poirier, Fielden L. 1967
Pugh, Lawrence. 1967, 1969
Robins, Agnes C. 1967
Rosenberry, Ralph M. 1968
Russell, Bert. 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969
Russell, Mrs. Howard, 1969
Spokesman Review "Answer Man". 1966, 1967
St. George, Esther (Mrs. Dallas) 1965, 1968, 1970
Superior Publishing Company, Seattle. 1970
Thomas, Mrs. Tillis. 1967
Turnbow, Gerald. 1966
Turner, Albert E. 1970
U.S. National Archives and Records Service. 1965
Van Laken, Mrs. P.J. 1967
Wohletz, Ernest. 1965, 1969
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Strong and Webb
1964-1965
1
15
Strong and Webb
1966-1967
1
16
Strong and Webb
1968-1970
1
17
The Manuscripts
IV
1967-1968
Manuscript (2nd Copy)
1
18
Manuscript (1st Copy)
1
19
Photographs
Photos Labeled "B"
Strong, Clarence Charles, 1895-1982, 1969
2
B-1
Webb, Clyde Stephen, 1889-, 1954
2
B-2
Milwaukee Lumber Co. Log Train and Crew, 1913
2
B-3
Ohio Match Company Log Train, 1930
2
B-4
Edward Rutledge Timber Company Incline Railroad, Marble Creek
2
B-5
Logs Being Towed Down St. Maries River, 1942-06-06
2
B-7
Coeur d'Alene (Tugboat), 1941-05-08
2
B-11
Coeur d'Alene (Tugboat), 1941-05-08
2
B-13
Ohio Match Company Lumberjack, 1927
2
B-17
Champion Women Sawyers - Ruth Turcotte and June DeGraff, 1934
2
B-19
Fort Coeur d'Alene (later Fort Sherman), 1884
2
B-20
Logging - Little North Fork, St. Joe River
2
B-21
Rogers Lumber Company, St. Maries. Fire damaged yard, 02 September 1940
2
B-24
Flood - St. Maries. Milwaukee Lumber Co., 1933
2
B-26
Rose Lake Lumber Company #3 Camp, Falls Creek, 1924
2
B-27
Logging. Typical Chute, St. Joe area, 1915
2
B-28
Logging - Horses Trailing Logs in Chute, 1928-06-23
2
B-29
Team of Draft Horses, 1944
2
B-31
Horses Hauling by Flatboat, 1923
2
B-32
Tugboat Fleet - Lafferty Transportation Company Tugboats, 1955
2
B-34
Oxen and Logging Crew, 1907
2
B-35
Deck of White Pine Logs, 1940
2
B-36
Delaney Creek Chute, Winton Lumber Company, 1929-07-08
2
B-37
Milwaukee Lumber Company operation, St. Joe National Forest, 1920
2
B-38
Falls Creek Flume, 1925
2
B-39
Tractor ready to pull a load of logs to the river, 1913
2
B-40
Sleigh load of logs drawn by horses, 1911
2
B-41
Rose Lake Lumber Company flume on Falls Creek, 1925
2
B-42
Rose Lake Lumber Company Camp, Falls Creek - Pack mule team, 1925
2
B-43
Marianne Hensley helping on logging operation, 1925
2
B-44
Neil Fullerton at trailing flume, 1939-09-22
2
B-46
Brickle Creek Flume, 1925
2
B-47
Brickle Creek Flume, 1924
2
B-49
Benewah Creek Flume, 1966
2
B-50
Winton Lumber Company flume on Skookum Creek, 1924
2
B-51
Leiberg flume, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, 1920-07-01
2
B-52
Logging - St. Joe National Forest, 1923-06-18
2
B-55
Logging truck loaded with white pine, 1935
2
B-58
Logs stored in slough along St. Joe River, 1908
2
B-60
Al B. Lafferty, 1955
2
B-61
Logging - Sleigh load of logs pulled by tractor, 1932
2
B-63
Wester White Pine Timber, 1927
2
B-64
"Georgie Oakes" Steamship, 1910
2
B-66
Logging - St. Joe-Big Creek area, 1913
2
B-68
Grant Lumber Company , St. Maries, 1892
2
B-71
Idaho Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Post Falls, 1900
2
B-72
Ohio Match Company Plant, Huetter, 1928
2
B-73
Cameron Lumber Company sawmill, Harrison, 1901
2
B-75
Charles W. Russell boarding house & sawmill, Harrison, 1900
2
B-76
St. Maries Lumber Company Sawmill, St. Maries, Idaho, 1952
2
B-78
B.R. Lewis Lumber Company Sawmill, Coeur d'Alene, 1908
2
B-81
Post Falls Lumber Company Sawmill, Post Falls, 1946
2
B-85
Frederick Post Water-Powered Sawmill, Post Falls, 1890
2
B-86
A. W. Post sawmill, Rathdrum, 1890
2
B-88
Rutledge Unit, Potlach Forest, inc., Coeur d'Alene, 1966-06-30
2
B-90
Army Sawmill, Fort Coeur d'Alene (later Fort Sherman), 1910
2
B-91
St. Joe Lumber Company Sawmill, Harrison, 1903
2
B-92
Whip Sawing at Lake Bennett, 1890
2
B-93
Frank J. Davies, 1890
2
B-94
Richard E. (Dick) Ferrell, 1935
2
B-95
Fred Herrick, 1910
2
B-96
George Frederick Jewett, Sr., 1940
2
B-97
Morbeck, A. C., 1930
2
B-98
Frederick Post, 1900
2
B-99
Walter S. Rosenberry, 1935
2
B-100
Group Photo, 1955
2
B-101
Log Branding Hammer, 1968
2
B-106
Stine Lumber & Shingle Company, St. Maries - Day Crew, 1915
2
B-110
Sam Avery, 1900
2
B-111
Herman Laumeister, 1915
2
B-112
Beaver Creek Flume, 1922
2
B-121
A.P. Bailey & Howard Drake on cars loaded with Ohio Match Company logs, 1926
Photos Labeled "I"
Using an "A" frame to load railway cars, 1923
2
I-6
Tugboat, 1942-06-06
2
I-8
Hercules (Tugboat) pulling logs on St. Maries River, 1942-06-06
2
I-9
Hercules (Tugboat) towing logs on St. Maries River, 1942-06-06
2
I-10
Hercules (Tugboat) towing logs on St. Maries River, 1942-06-06
2
I-12
Corliss Steam Engine Sign, Newport, Washington, 1967-04-15
2
I-14
Corliss Steam Engine, Newport, Washington - General view, 1967-04-15
2
I-15
Lake Steamers - Historical Marker, 1967-04-17
2
I-16
Ruth Turcotte & June DeGraff sawing dead tree in Central Park, 1934
2
I-18
Log jam above drawbridge in St. Maries, 1938-04-18
2
I-22
Log jam above drawbridge in St. Maries, 1938-04-18
2
I-23
Flood - St. Maries, Idaho, December 1933
2
I-25
Diamond Match Company Chute and Flume, Kaniksu National Forest, 1928
2
I-30
Hauling logging supplies by flatboat and team, 1923-07-16
2
I-33
Flume on Falls Creek, 1925
2
I-45
Logging - Neil Fullerton at trailing chute, Mica Creek, 1939-09-22
2
I-48
Benewah Creek Flume, 1968
2
I-50
Log Drive on Coeur d'Alene River, 1921-07-18
2
I-53
Sanders, Idaho, 1905
2
I-54
Joe Brown operation at Sanders, 1905
2
I-56
Sleigh load of logs - Joe Brown operation, Sanders, 1905
2
I-57
Sleigh loaded of logs - Joe Brown operation, Sanders, 1905
2
I-59
Hand logging operation, Big Grizzly Creek, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, 1921-07-18
2
I-62
Horse skidding logs on Stony Creek, Kaniksu National Forest, 1950
2
I-65
Truck loaded with logs, Kaniksu National Forest, 1957
2
I-67
Bunker Hill's First Sawmill, 1910
2
I-69
Jackson Lumber Harvester in Boundary County, 1948
2
I-70
Athol Lumber Company sawmill, 1911
2
I-74
Rutledge Unit, Potlatch Forests Inc., Coeur d'Alene, 1968
2
I-77
B.R. Lewis Lumber Company, Coeur d'Alene, 1908
2
I-79
B.R. Lewis Lumber Company - Composite, 1908
2
I-80
Ohio Match Company sawmill, Huetter, 1946
2
I-82
Coeur d'Alene Lumber Company sawmill, 1909
2
I-83
Coeur d'Alene Lumber Company Sawmill, 1905
2
I-84
A.W. Post Sawmill and Log Pond, Rathdrum, 1890
2
I-87
A. W. Post sawmill - interior, 1890
2
I-89
Huntington Taylor, 1926
2
I-102
C. Lee Billings, 1940
2
I-103
Edward Rutledge, 1900
2
I-104
Arthur Perl Bailey, 1963
2
I-105
James D. Miller and two grandsons, 1920
2
I-107
Stine Lumber and Shingle Company, St. Maries, 1914
2
I-108
Laumeister & Avery Shingle Mill, Harrison, 1913
2
I-109
Hercules (Tugboat) pulling logs down St. Maries River, 1942-06-06
2
I-113
Hercules (Tugboat) view of deck, 1942
2
I-114
Tugboat pulling logs on Coeur d'Alene River, 1955
2
I-115
Tugboat towing logs on St. Joe River, 1939
2
I-116
"Coeur d'Alene" (Tugboat) on St. Joe River, 1941-05-08
2
I-117
Log jam near drawbridge, St. Maries, Idaho, 1938-04-18
2
I-118
Unloading logs into St. Joe River, 1938-08-24
2
I-119
Log pile, 1915
2
I-120
Crane Loading Logs onto Truck, 1941-07-18
2
I-122
Scaling Logs before loading them onto a truck, 1941-07-18
2
I-123
Potlatch logs from Stony Creek at Merry Creek Landing, 1941-07-18
2
I-124
Log train loaded with yellow pine logs, 1942-06-07
2
I-126
Sleigh Loaded with Logs, 1910
2
I-127
Sleigh Loaded with Logs, 1910
2
I-128
Winton Lumber Company - Pack animals, 1928
2
I-129
Winton Lumber Company tailing logs into flume, 1925
2
I-130
Winton Lumber Company. Trailing logs into flume, 1925
2
I-131
Winton Lumber Company. "Rearing" a flume, 1925
2
I-132
Winton Lumber Company. Separating logs in flume, 1925
2
I-133
Winton Lumber Company, Falls Creek. Chute landing, 1925
2
I-134
Winton Lumber Company. Running chute, 1925
2
I-135
A.B. Lafferty and Ross Hall, 1950
2
I-136
Richard E. Ferrell, 1928
2
I-137