IMAGE
Sorting Boom, Pend Oreille River Item Info
- Title:
- Sorting Boom, Pend Oreille River
- Creator:
- Glen Stewart
- Donor:
- A. Stewart
- Date Created (Archival Standard):
- 1910-1940
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1913
- Description:
- Several men stand on floating logs in a watery area, one holding a long pole at "The Sorting Gaps" on the Pend Oreille River.
- Original Description:
- The sorting gaps, as Arley Stewart called them, were located on the Pend Oreille, where the boat club's ramps and the grandstand are today. The logs on the drives were branded to show which mill they were to go to; they were sorted at gaps according to brands. If a mill got someone else's logs, it sawed them, wrote down the board feet and paid for them. The shed was a barrier built in the river to break the current and to slow the logs. There were hundreds of them up and down the river.
- Subjects:
- logging log drives sorting booms
- Original Subject:
- logging; log drives; splash dams; sorting booms; bateau
- Location:
- Bonner County
- Latitude:
- 48.5036171
- Longitude:
- -117.2641438
- Source:
- Marylyn Cork Collection, Priest River Library
- Source Identifier:
- log4-05
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Language:
- eng
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Sorting Boom, Pend Oreille River", Marylyn Cork Priest River Historical Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/priestriver/items/priestriver0260.html
Rights
- Rights:
- In copyright, educational use permitted. Educational use includes non-commercial reproduction of text and images in materials for teaching and research purposes. Materials in this digital collection are not held by University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives. Please contact Priest River Library at library@westbonnerlibrary.org for information.
- Standardized Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/