The ALEXANDER Pioneer Ranch in Oregon

A load of logs for the Alexander saw mill

Building part of the log flume

Signs says "private property, keep off"

Loggers cabins and fresh snow

Very different support structure

Loggers living quarters

Amazing hand built flume. Engineering marvel

Real lumberjacks prepping a tree to fell

Winter's a good time to skid loads on ice roads

Billions of board feet

Hard working athletes. Very well taken care of

Beautiful perfect logs ready for the sawmill

Mill pond and an enormous amount of milled boards

Showing off a really big tree

Work doesn't slow in winter

Saw logs managed by nothing but horse power and hard work

Amazing double flume

Long view, and a loaded flume

Beautiful falls in Oregon

Amazing all wood dam to create a mill pond

Billions of board feet harvested in just a few years

Fresh cut timber ready for market. Background shows the "Wigwam" burner used to burn scraps. Later in the 20th century, scraps were repurposed

Busy logging town purpose built

Mill pond and sawmill

Another perfect hand built flume in the wilderness

Flume with wooden service walkway

Freshly built loggers cabins and cook house