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Title
Log drive camp near Hydraulic Falls
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Lumber camps

Subject
Water-power

Item Number
AF01a144

Relation
Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3

Description
Photograph taken near Hydraulic Falls, shows a typical log drive camp. Note the cook tent and large kettles steaming over open fires. To the right is the air pipe which served the Chapin and Ludington mines with compressed air to work machinery, running nearly three miles from the Hydraulic Power Company to Iron Mountain.

Log drive camp near Hydraulic Falls

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