Logging Camps Stir Again After the Panic
After the financial panic froze the woods, camps around Newport are reopening, adding teams, and waiting for snow to move four million feet of logs.
Logging Operations in This Vicinity
There is more activity in logging operations in the vicinity of Newport at the present time than since the financial flurry struck this district. While many of the camps that were operating before the trouble occurred have not resumed, and possibly will not until the troubles are finally settled, still the prospects for a fair season's logging have not entirely disappeared. The D. K. Mill Co., at Dalkena, will resume logging soon after Christmas, and conduct a small camp for some time, and will enlarge the camp as soon as conditions warrant. Harry Saddler, who is logging for the Panhandle Lumber Co. between Newport and Spirit Lake, added a few teams and several men to his forces during the past week, and expects to further enlarge the force within a short time. At the Fidelity camp, about six miles northeast of town, on the reserve, about 4,000,000 feet of logs have been skidded and the contractors are awaiting snow in order to get the logs to the landings on the river. After the logs are delivered they will resume sawing. Several of the smaller camps are also preparing to reopen.
“There is more activity in logging operations in the vicinity of Newport at the present time than since the financial flurry struck this district.”
Timber remains a volatile rural employer, and the 1907 camps reopening after a panic echo the way resource towns ride commodity and credit cycles. The dependence on snow, teams, and river landings also shows how weather and transport could decide a season's work.
From readers
No comments yet. If you know something about this story — a correction, a family memory, a source — it belongs here.