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A Dendrochronological Investigation Into a 1920S Railroad Logging Operation AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Pamela K. Paullin for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Anthropology, Anthropology and Geography presented on June 7, 2007. Title: Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon. Abstract approved David R. Brauner Although the timber industry was the major economic force in the lives of several generations of Oregon families, very little archaeological investigation has been done on the dozens of abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project focuses on Camp 1, a 1920s era railroad logging operation in the western Cascade Mountains of Clackamas County, approximately 8 miles southeast of Estacada, Oregon. The study contributes to a growing archaeological railroad logging database in Oregon by locating and documenting the spatial organization of one of these forgotten camps and its associated log transportation system, a railroad incline. Archival research, oral histories, photogrammetry, dendrochronology, and archaeological survey methods generated the data that was used to determine site boundaries, as well as locate and identify the function of activity loci represented by surface features and debris scatters. This study demonstrated that tree ages obtained from tree-ring counts on the trees that had regenerated on the site during a systemic survey of the probable location of the camp, in conjunction with organic artifacts such as springboard cut stumps, and the location of artifact concentrations is an effective method to establish site boundaries. The dendrochronological study revealed three disturbance events that have affected the current archaeological record found on the site, two forest fires and the construction of a landing strip. Although Camp 1 has experienced significant cultural and natural impacts to the archaeological resources found on the site, this study has demonstrated that heavily disturbed sites still possess information that is useful to answer a variety of research questions regarding the life ways, technological systems, and use of space in temporary logging camps where thousands of people once lived and worked in the forests of the region. © Copyright by Pamela K. Paullin June 7, 2007 All Rights Reserved Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon by Pamela K. Paullin A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies Presented on June 7, 2007 Commencement June 2008 Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies thesis of Pamela K. Paullin presented on June 7, 2007. APPROVED: Major Professor, representing Anthropology Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries. My signature below authorizes release of my thesis to any reader upon request. Pamela K. Paullin, Author ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis has truly been a collaborative effort by many people. The support and assistance of my friends, family, and coworkers enabled me to persevere when the going got tough. Dr. David Brauner, Dr. Ron Doel, and Dr. Loren Davis have assisted throughout the gestation period of this project. I would like to thank Barbara Grant and Pat Jones, who jump-started me when my battery was dead. Ann Rogers, Stacy Lundgren, and Kay Shelnutt continue to provide invaluable advice and friendship. I am indebted to Russ Hatz and Oregon NRCS who supported me in my decision to take time off from work to write this thesis. Susie Rudisell, archaeological technician on the Estacada Ranger District, shared site reports and allowed me access to several wonderful oral histories of early loggers and forest service employees who worked in the upriver woods. I would like to acknowledge my family most of all. I am thankful for the love, and the financial and moral support that my parents, Beryl and Corinne Paullin, have generously given to me. My brother Bruce Paullin, and his wife, Sharon White, were an enthusiastic, supportive, and fun field crew. I appreciate their interest and willingness to share in my obsession. My biggest supporter was my husband Larry Weaver, who passed away in November 2006, at far too young of an age. He believed in me in his “tough love” sort of way, and encouraged me to complete what I had started. Larry accompanied me out in the woods, and beat the brush in all kinds of weather to help me get the data I needed for this project. He cored most of the trees, helped me lay out the sampling grid, and talked with the old loggers and town residents whose parents or grandparents worked up on Ladee Flat. I honestly could not have done it without him, and wish that he were here with me to savor the moment. I know he would be proud of our accomplishment. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Chapter 1: Introduction ..............................................................…..................1 Chapter 2: Natural Setting ………………………………………………… 14 Chapter 3: Theoretical Perspectives ………………………………..………30 Chapter 4: Research Design and Methodology …………….……….……...49 Chapter 5: Historic and Technological Setting ……………………………. 83 Chapter 6: The Story of Porter Carstens’ Camp 1………………………….120 Chapter 7: Field Archaeology ………………………………….…………. 156 Chapter 8: Discussion and Conclusion …………………………………… 179 Bibliography ………………………………………………………………. 213 Appendices ………………………………………………………………… 224 LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 1.1: Project area map, Bedford Point 7.5’ USGS Quadrangle, Clackamas County, Oregon …………………………………………….. 2 1.2: Map of Portland interurban rail lines, rivers, and locations mentioned in text …………………………………………………………3 1.3: Camp 1 in 1924 (Penn State University, Paterno Library, Forest History Collection, record group number MGN 103; box 10, folder 33)………..……………………………………………... 10 1.4: 1938 aerial photo of Camp 1 and Ladee Flat (OSU Kerr Library 3rd floor map room)………………………………………………..…… 12 2.1: USDA-NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) NED 10-meter resolution photo of Camp 1 and Ladee Flat located on a plateau above the Clackamas River illustrating the dissected topography of the western Cascade Mountain ..………………….…….. 16 2.2: Soil map of Ladee Flat and Camp 1 (USDA-NRCS geodata)………….. 22 2.3: 1914 historic vegetation, USDA-NRCS/Oregon Department of Forestry geodata………………………………………………………….26 2.4: Forest inventory map created in 1933 by the US Forest Service showing 1929 LaDee Flat Fire………………………………………….. 29 3.1: Model of Camp 1 settlement pattern based on photos, oral histories, and literature review (not to scale and not oriented to north)……..….…48 4.1: Comparison of historic and modern environmental conditions; cinnabar mine has destroyed the location where the original photographer stood in 1923……………………………………….……..63 4.2: 1869 GLO survey map of township 4 south and range 5 east……..…......64 4.3: 1897 GLO map of township 4 south and range 5 east…………...……….64 4.4: Boring to the core-Larry Weaver drilling a Douglas-fir for age……..…...70 LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 4.5: R10T17 tree core, tree is 57 years old, and sprouted in 1949…….……....71 4.6: Example of USDA-NRCS timber stand zigzag inventory worksheet….....75 4.7: Sighting in the survey line……………………………………….………..79 4.8: Example of irregular tree distribution and overall field conditions………..81 4.9: Map of sampled trees, railroad grades, and secondary datums at Camp 1…………………………………………………………….….....82 5.1: Map of Southern Pacific Oregon railroad land grants (European and Oregon Land Company 1872)……………………….........................….... 87 5.2: Dolbeer’s steam donkey (Willamette Iron and Steam Works 1925:118)……………………………………………….…………92 5.3: An interurban car transformed into a “crummy’ or railcar used to transport loggers (Labbe 1980:100) …………………..…………….…... 94 5.4: Cross-section of a typical railroad grade (drawing by author)……….….95 5.5: Illustrations of framed and pile trestles …………………………….……98 5.6: Porter-Carstens incline in 1924 (Penn State University MGN 103, box 32, folder 12) …………………………………………………....….101 5.7: Wood-burning gear-driven 67-ton Shay locomotive circa 1920 (Bryant 1923:187) ……………………………………..……………..…104 5.8: Willamette Iron and Steel Works oil-burning gear-driven locomotive (Willamette Iron and Steel Works 1925:82) ..…………..…105 5.9: Example of “Shay-type” oil-burning rod-driven engine manufactured by Baldwin (Bryant 1923:188) …………………....……106 5:10: Logging camp in Maine circa 1890. The buildings from left to right are the cook shanty, bunkhouse, blacksmith shop, and stable (Bryant 1923:29) ……………………………………………..…………107 LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 6.1: End of the line at Cazadero circa 1904 (Labbe 1980:9) ……….…..……121 6.2: 1906 map of the Portland Railway Light & Power Company system, formerly the OWP&RR line (Labbe 1980:123)…………………………122 6.3: Cazadero Dam construction in 1903 surrounded by the 1902 Hillockburn Fire which burned through portions of Ladee Flat (Estacada Middle School student history project 1979) …………………122 6.4: Estacada Hotel circa 1906 (Labbe 1980:9) ………………..…….……….123 6.5: Logging with the Shay on the upper Clackamas River hydroelectric projects 1920 (Labbe 1980:139) …………………………………………124 6.6: Metskers 1939 map of Ladee Flat displaying mixed land ownerships ……………………………………………………………….126 6.7: Porter-Carstens incline circa 1924 (Penn State University,
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