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Legacies of Logging in Minnesota ECHOES FROM THE WOODS LEGACIES of in MINNESOTA MOIRA F. HARRIS WHITE PINE REIGNED AS last trip to the sawmills. As historian other), but by 1914 the old-growth king of Minnesota’s forests in Agnes Larson wrote, white pine was forests had given up their riches. the nineteenth and early-twentieth used in everything from homes to While logging continued in the state, centuries. It was harvested in the ship masts, barrels to matches.1 winter months, fl oated downriver to Lumber was one of Minnesota’s Unclogging a logjam in “Dells of the St. booms (holding pens) in the spring, two main industries in the nine- Croix,” one of B. F. Upton’s stereopticon and then formed into rafts for the teenth century (fl our milling was the photos from his Series of Minnesota Views Spring 2013 203 the yields of the past would not be it in the Beanery. Built outside the River that continued for 57 days in seen again. The industry moved to Minneapolis Industrial Exposition 1883. The following year, low-water forests farther west but left its mark building (headquarters for the con- conditions meant that logs once on Minnesota—not only on the land- vention), the Beanery was furnished again were not carried over the falls. scape but also in artistic legacies. with benches, a stove, and beds like River drivers and sawmill workers Cultural echoes from the woods still those found in many logging camps. had no work; as Dunn wrote, “Low resonate in Minnesota today. Delegates to the convention were water makes rusty saws.” 5 Once treaties with the region’s served meals of pork and beans, typi- In August 1889 news correspon- Indian tribes had been signed, be- cal loggers’ fare, cooked on location dents and sightseers arrived in Taylors ginning in 1837, many forests were in outdoor pits. Not everyone found Falls to see yet another big logjam. open for exploitation. Minnesota’s the idea appealing. A reporter for the One reporter described the scene: fi rst sawmill was built along the St. New York Times even wrote, “Minne- Heavy rain had propelled masses of Croix River in Marine in 1839. By apolis is a bad restaurant city.” 3 logs over the rapids, the 1860s, companies like Thomas B. Walker’s Red River Lumber Com- And so the jam continued to pany had established camps of log IN THE OFF-SEASON, THE CAMPS increase, and settle, and pile-up, shanties to house and feed the work- closed but some loggers stayed on as and groan and creak, all the after- ers who spent November to April in river drivers. When the ice went off noon and night, until Wednesday the woods. Logging crews included the rivers, the logs that had been de- morning when it blossomed a foreman, the sawyers who cut posited on the banks were launched out the worst tangled mass of down the trees, swampers who re- on their trip downstream. River logs the eye ever rested upon, moved the branches, and skidders drivers had to keep the logs moving wedged in so tight as to be almost who wrapped chains around the logs freely without piling up or causing immovable.6 piled high on sleds, so that horses or jams. Riding along on a slippery tree oxen could pull the cargo over iced trunk, they used peaveys—long, A week later, the Taylor’s Falls roads to riverbanks. In camp were sharp, pointed poles—to poke and Journal updated its readers: “Large also clerks, cooks, and teamsters. prod the timber, “dancing” to keep crowds from neighboring towns and At least one shanty housed the their footing.4 the cities arrive daily by boat, rail, workers, while other log buildings Historian James Taylor Dunn and team to watch the tedious work served as the cookhouse and shel- mentions a logjam on the St. Croix of loosening the logs, but when a tered the horses and oxen in this non- mechanized world.2 While the industry was still at its peak, illustrations of the lumber- camp shanty began appearing in national magazines, including Harper’s (both the monthly and weekly) and Scribner’s. The building was considered so iconic that plan- ners of the 1892 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis imitated Moira F. Harris (PhD, University of Minnesota) has written for this maga- zine on Minnesota art and ephemera. Recent articles published elsewhere fo- cused on Ponce de Leon and the Foun- tain of Youth and fi gure-skating dress. St. Paul Globe, July 21, 1898, page 3 204 Minnesota History Cultural echoes from the woods still resonate in Minnesota today. ‘haul’ is obtained [a log is freed], they are amply repaid for their patience.” Sanford C. Sargent (1851–1914), a local photographer, had secured some excellent views and was selling photographs of all sizes and styles at the Cocheco hotel. He was just one of many entrepreneurial artists drawn to the drama of such a scene. In the Minnesota Historical Society collections alone, more than 100 photos from the 1860s through the 1930s document jams and the men trying to break them. Logjams diminished as railroads took over the transport of logs to the mills. The work of the river drivers evolved into the sport of logrolling or Evergreen trees, timber, a stack of lumber, and a log shanty, all part of Dennis birling. Two men stand, one at either Roghair’s 2001 chainsaw carving, Nurturing Nature to Prepare for the Future, end of a log, each attempting to move near Green Hall on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus it so that his opponent loses footing and falls into the water. Logrolling such as Grand Rapids’ Tall Timber has become a competitive sport with Days. Homeowners hire carvers to rules and a national organization. In transform tree trunks into sculp- Minnesota, summer festivals such as tures. Visitors to the Minnesota State Stillwater’s Lumberjack Days have Fairgrounds can view quite a collec- included exhibitions of the skill.7 tion of carvings, including towers of Other Minnesota summer festi- animals and a silhouette of racehorse vals have featured pole climbing and Dan Patch near the Grandstand. chainsaw carving to recall the days of the loggers. Chainsaws came to be used in the woods around 1920; MURALS WOULD SEEM TO BE now, carvers and their art can be the right format for the sweep and found throughout Minnesota, and drama of the lumber industry. In competitions take place at events former logging towns from Sebeka to Spring 2013 205 Stillwater, indoors and outside, these at Koochiching Falls (1937) in the public works of art portray scenes International Falls post offi ce shows from the region’s past. Perhaps the the storied Paul Bunyan and Babe state’s oldest mural celebrating log- the Blue Ox as well as human-scale Murals would ging was rediscovered in storage in loggers working in the woods and on about 1999 at the Lake County court- the river. As her title suggests, Wiley seem to be the house in Two Harbors. Axel Edward painted logging in the past because Soderberg had painted three murals that was what local people wanted.9 right format for on canvas—Commerce, Forestry, and Established in 1935, the Works Mining—for the commissioners’ Progress Administration also com- the sweep and boardroom in 1905. Now restored missioned artists to create paintings and on view again, Forestry shows and sculptures for schools and other drama of the two loggers cutting down a tree while public buildings. Logging was fea- two others perch atop what was tured in two murals: Andre Boratko’s, lumber industry. called a brag load of timbers on a for Milaca’s town hall (1937; now horse-drawn wagon.8 home to the Milaca Area Historical The post-offi ce art program of Society) and Richard Haines’s, for the 1930s, directed by the treasury a long corridor in Sebeka High and Babe and early Minnesota con- department’s Section of Painting School (1938).10 servationist Christopher C. Andrews.11 and Sculpture, encouraged artists to Hazel Stoick, an art student at Decades later, Marilyn Lindstrom, select subjects that celebrated mo- the University of Minnesota in 1945, Sue McDonald, and Dane Krogman ments in local history. For Chisholm’s painted a fi ve-panel mural, The showed men at work on the Missis- post offi ce, Betty Carney painted the Epic of Minnesota’s Great Forests, sippi River in their Camden Histori- timber cruiser famed for accidentally as part of the work for her master’s cal Logging Mural in Minneapolis discovering iron ore while checking degree. Located on the fi rst fl oor of (1980). Frank Gosiak’s mural for out the woods. In Grand Rapids, Green Hall at the university’s St. Paul Little Falls (1991) portrays a simi- James S. Watrous depicted a scene campus, the mural shows an Indian lar scene farther north on the same of lumberjacks and women danc- bartering away the pine lands, an ava- river. Lindstrom and a group of com- ing as a steamboat arrived at the ricious lumber baron, a sawmill, and munity volunteers included logging dock. Lucia Wiley’s Early Logging forest fi res—as well as Paul Bun yan in Sebeka’s four-panel centennial RUINS and RECREATIONS From forest to mill: The Minnesota Historical Society maintains two historic sites where visitors can learn about the state’s logging industry. For more information, hours, and directions, select a site at www.visitmnhistory.org. The Forest History Center near U.S. highways Marine Mill on Judd Street in Marine on St.
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