| Area | Basinwide/General |
| Topic | Tour: Historical Photos Logging on the Ten Mile and in Mendocino #2 |
This photo shows two railroad tracks on top of a switchback leading down into a gulch at head of the Ten Mile River. Guy Young, engineer, is depicted on the yarder to the right. The man at left is unloading lumber to build a logging camp circa 1916. North-Western Mill (also called Diamond D Mill). Photo courtesy of the Held-Poage Research Library and the Mendocino County Historical Society. From the collection of Robert Lee. 02557 Guy Young
This photo shows a logging railroad, probably in the Ten Mile River woods. Note the stream channel clogged with logging debris. Photo courtesy of the Held-Poage Research Library and the Mendocino County Historical Society. From the collection of Robert Lee. 05301 Escola
The image above is taken from a post card on file at the Held Poage Research Library in Ukiah and shows a 15 foot diameter redwood log taken from the Ten Mile River woods in 1917. Photo courtesy of Held-Poage and the Mendocino County Historical Society.
This photo shows a close up of a steam yarder at the head of the Ten Mile River (North western woods top of incline to gulch) circa 1916. Guy Young the engineer is depicted at right. Photo courtesy of the Held-Poage Historical Library and the Mendocino Historical Society. From the Robert Lee collection. 02558 Guy Young
Woods camp probably not on Ten Mile River but more likely on the Noyo. Shown to illustrate life style and communities associated with logging activity in earlier times. Photo courtesy of the Held-Poage Historical Library and the Mendocino Historical Society. From the Robert Lee collection.
This photo shows one of the first power cross-cut saws in use at the Ten Mile River logging camp. Logging 10 mile camp. 2 views-drag saw. Photo courtesy of the Held-Poage Research Library and the Mendocino County Historical Society. From the collection of Robert Lee. 02846 A-B Everett Racine
This photo shows logging of a giant redwood at some location in Mendocino County, likely in the 1940's or 1950's. The height of the tree was 330 feet and it was 204 feet to the first branches, The tree diameter was 21 feet and 2 inches at the stump and it produced 118,141 board feet of lumber. The image comes from a post card on file at the Held-Poage Research Library in Ukiah and is used here with the permission of Held-Poage and the Mendocino County Historical Society.
Logging in the 1950's was depicted on this post card on file at the Held-Poage Research Library in Ukiah. Photo used in KRIS through the courtesy of Held-Poage and the Mendocino Historical Society.
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