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Valley to make lumber was in 1849.
The trees that were felled then were
at the river's mouth and so close to
wa terthat they were rolled by hand
into rafting booms.
Tha logging
cleared a site for the start of Illahee, .
a town of homes. More clearings
I were the start of farms.
The first logging in the Mamook Tsicgi- g went on, slowly and ptead-
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By 1929 the type of tractor that
took itself along on belts of broad
steel I nks cleated outside and cogged
inside, providing tremenous traction,
was in the mountains that rose from
the headwaters of the Mamook. In
front it carried a broad blade for
trail making—bulldozing. It pulled a
trailer with a high A-frame rig that
stood on crawlers, like the tractor
itself. A cable ran from a drum at
the ti actor’s rear up through the
peak of the A-frame or arch. By this
logs were snubbed up, their head ends
were hoisted, and the tractor punch­
er—he r of the bullpuncher and don­
key puncher — could yard timber
down any old mountain side. The
powerful logging truck was another
development. Truck-and-tractor log­
ging was the new giant of the for­
ests of the Cascade Mountains, in
the pineries of the east as well as
on the fir-'bearing west slope.
The development meant more than
mechanical change. It was new pio-
mise for business in the timber.
Young wage-earning loggers could
not hojx to save enouj^ from their
wages to build and equip a railroad
outfit, but the could hope to finance
a tTuck-an-tractor deal; and thous­
ands have done so.
Between 1929 and 1939 the depres­
sion hit the lumber industry harder
than any other. Not until 1937, ac­
cording to the U. S. Treasury, did
the industry produce a profit—and
in 1938 it slipped intc the red again.
In 1933 the Tillamook Fire burned
more sawtimber on 275,000 acres in
Oregon than had been cut from the
nation’s entire 500 million and more
commercial forest acres in the pre­
vious year.
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And now the lands of the loggers
look good up the Mamook. Most of
the tracts that were torn up by over­
sited and over-fast railroad logging
in the 1920’s have come back with
thriving young forests. State laws of
Washington and Oregon now require
the leaving of adequate stands of
seed trees on the logging cutovers.
The truck roads and tractor trails
serve as protection of the new crops
’iom fire in these times. Logging is
less like mining and more like an
orderly farm harvest on the Mam­
ook.
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ily, »preaiing out to benches, then
to hills. The skidroad and the bull­
team moved the timber from stump
to waterway. By 1899 the hoars,
chugging loar and shrill whistle of
the Dolbeer donkey echoed in the
can yons.
Then the railroad came, and big­
ger and faster logging machines with
high-lead and skyline skiddiffg sys­
tems. They tore through the timber
in thetwenties. Fire often rampaged
through the logging debris in the
wake of the steam-driven giants of
the woods that had put Paul Bun-
yan and Babe the Blue Ox in the
shade.
Still there was timber, The Mam-
ook area was roughly^one-hundredth
of the Douglas fir region, the land
between the snow of the Cascades
and the foam of the Pacific. It had
more than 250,000 acres of “com-
meicially available” forest land Half
of the acreage and the sawtimber
were publicly owned. Most of the
sawtimber stands were on the up-
lands; rough country, tough railroad-
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But also 9rr 1933 a set of forest
practice rules was accepted by the
lumber industry as part of the Lum­
ber Code of the National Recovery
Act. When NRA was outlawed by
the Supreme Court the industry vol­
untarily kept the forest practice rules
effective.
Pine loggers and fir loggers of the
Cascade country were leaders in this
voluntary movement. In the Western
Pine and West Coast Lumbermen's
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