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    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1937-04-25


    • Log drive is on - crew of 32 rivermen start off big push on Clearwater - head for Lewiston pond - approximately 23,000,000 feet to be floated downstream - one of few remaining in nation

    • 1937

    • Log drive is on - crew of 32 rivermen start off big push on Clearwater - head for Lewiston pond - approximately 23,000,000 feet to be floated downstream - one of few remaining in nation - A crew of 32 disciples of Paul Bunyan directed by Charles...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1937-04-25
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1937-04-27


    • Big log drive now under way - Clearwater river is low as millions of feet of timber start journey

    • 1937

    • Big log drive now under way - Clearwater river is low as millions of feet of timber start journey - The annual log drive of Potlatch Forests, Inc., will begin today from the mouth of Beaver reek, under the direction of the veteran riverman, Charles...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1937-04-27
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1938-04-17


    • Scene of the great annual Idaho log drive

    • 1938

    • Scene of the great annual Idaho log drive - Nearly 40,000,000 feet of saw logs were in the north fork of the Clearwater as Potlatch Forests, Inc., counded a call for its ninth annual log drive. The logs travel by water over 100 miles a day and...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1938-04-17
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1928-03-24


    • First log drive reaches Newport

    • 1928

    • First log drive reaches Newport - The first of the spring log drive arrivd in Newport, last week, but owing to the low stages of water in Priest river, driving is very slow and it is doubtful if logs come down soon enough to keep the Humbird mill...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1928-03-24
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1928-04-20


    • Big log drive Saturday - Clearwater Timber Company has 10,000,000 feet to move

    • 1928

    • Big log drive Saturday - Clearwater Timber Company has 10,000,000 feet to move - The first real big log drive on the Clearwater river in many years will be staged Saturday, when the Clearwater Timber company, operating a mill at Lewiston, will...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1928-04-20
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1928-04-21


    • Log drive to be big - Weyerhaeusers to float Clearwater timber - Dr. M. S. Fite of Lewiston tells of increased building in home city

    • 1928

    • Log drive to be big - Weyerhaeusers to float Clearwater timber - Dr. M. S. Fite of Lewiston tells of increased building in home city - Preparation is being made by the Weyerhaeuser lumber interests for a big log drive down the Clearwater river that...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1928-04-21
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1936-04-17


    • Colorful log drie to be seen in films

    • 1936

    • Colorful log drie to be seen in films - Within a few days now- depending on the weather - loggers up in the snowbound Clearwater forests will start herding over 45,000,000 feet of white pine logs down the raging Clearwater river, to the millponds...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1936-04-17
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1936-04-23


    • Last big log drive on its way

    • 1936

    • Last big log drive on its way - The 45,000,000 feet of white pine logs from the upper Clearwater region is on the way down the swift Clearwater river to Lewiston. The rear end of the drive was reported past the mouth of the Little North Fork late...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1936-04-23
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1936-06-03


    • Log drive mopup now under way upstream

    • 1936

    • Log drive mopup now under way upstream - The remnants of a drive of 40,000,000 feet of white pine logs and 18,000 cedar poles started at the mouth of Beaver creek April 29 was reported at Ahsahka Monday night, 75 miles from where it started.
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1936-06-03
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1936-06-19


    • Record log drive nearing goal and romance of river marks up more history for White Pine area

    • 1936

    • Record log drive nearing goal and romance of river marks up more history for White Pine area - Another annual romance of the Clearwater river, the perennial story of the reaping of the timber harvest in the pine-clad hills of the last great stand...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1936-06-19
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1937-05-22


    • Potlatch drive in Clearwater

    • 1937

    • Potlatch drive in Clearwater - The log drive of the Potlatch Forests, Inc., swung into the Clearwater river this morning from the north fork at Ahashka. The drive, which started from Beaver creek, originally comprised 23,000,000 feet of white pine...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1937-05-22
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1938-04-17


    • Mighty drive of logs begins - River experts risk necks to move 40,000,000 feet of timber 100 miles

    • 1938

    • Mighty drive of logs begins - River experts risk necks to move 40,000,000 feet of timber 100 miles - Potlatch Forests, Inc., has sounded the call for its ninth annual log drive down the north fork of the Clearwater river, and over night 30 picked...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1938-04-17
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1920-04-24


    • Priest river has its greatest log drive

    • 1920

    • Priest river has its greatest log drive - One of the most difficult drives in the history of logging in Bonner county is on this week at Priest river, the water bing lower than in any other year since annual spring drives began on this stream. And,...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1920-04-24

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