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Durbin McIlnay trimming a log. Across the log at the bottom of the photo is an 8 foot measuring stick. The logs were cut to the same 16-foot length before being loaded on a skid.
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Logger trimming logs at Wearyman Creek. Saw is in left foreground.
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Buster (on left) and Jack Beck sitting on a felled log at the upper Wearyman logging camp (Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill).
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Stump in the snow. The trail where logs have been dragged through the snow is to the right of the stump.
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Jack Beck using a horse to pull a log on upper Wearyman Creek for Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill.
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Ron Dump, seated, and Bruce Beck with axes and hand saw in front of a felled and trimmed log. They are logging on Shrine Pass for Ray Warren, Sr. Buster and Bruce Beck and Ron Dump worked when they were still in school during the summers and falls of the year.
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Buster Beck with a cant hook log roller, positioning cut and trimmed logs into a pile. A piece of lumber is being used as a wedge.
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Everett Warren stacking logs at the lower sawmill on Wearyman Creek.
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Bob Warren moving logs at the lower Warren Brother & Robinson sawmill on Wearyman Creek. The mill works are behind him.
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Gustav (Gust) Benson sitting on sled loaded with logs and pulled by a horse team. Benson worked at Benson's (no relation) sawmill at Pando. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Bruce Beck (left) and Ron Dump seated during a break while logging on Shrine Pass. The skid horse pulls the logs.

12. Logs

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Logs stacked waiting for transport out of the timber.
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Fallen logs, waiting for trimming and hauling.
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From left, Buster Beck, Durbin McIlnay, and Frank Robinson at a logging camp on the upper Wearyman Creek.
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Alfred Benson's log cabin (hewn inside) on Shrine Pass FSR (Forest Service Road) 709. His skid horse in harness for pulling logs is standing outside. There are several cabins (log and board), a blacksmith shop and a barn at the site.
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Horse used by loggers to pull logs out of the standing timber.
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Jack Beck standing behind a log which the horse is pulling through the snow.
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The Eagle Lumber Co. loading shed for the Denver & Rio Grand railroad at Peterson Creek gulch in the Eagle River Canyon (about .5 mi. from Red Cliff and 2 mi. from Belden). The logs were sent down on the surface tram running down the gulch in this photo and then loaded on train cars. There is another set of main line tracks across the Eagle River (at the bottom of the photo). The small building at the right is the tram house. Above that, there...