Dublin Core
Subject
Log booms
Cooperages
Tugboats
Description
Logs were dumped into Duck Lake before sawing to remove dirt that dulled the saws. This shows a boom of logs being moved to the mill by the steam powered tug "Betsie".
The Wylie Cooperage factory and the small company village of Wylie were both located on Duck Lake just north of the State Park. They made barrels, between 1897 and about 1914,of the hard woods remaining after the Pine forests were lumbered off . A spur of the M&NE brought logs to the factory and the knocked down staves, heads and hoops were shipped out on the railroad. Many barrels went to the Chicago meat packing plants.
The Wylie Cooperage factory and the small company village of Wylie were both located on Duck Lake just north of the State Park. They made barrels, between 1897 and about 1914,of the hard woods remaining after the Pine forests were lumbered off . A spur of the M&NE brought logs to the factory and the knocked down staves, heads and hoops were shipped out on the railroad. Many barrels went to the Chicago meat packing plants.
Source
Pennington Collection
Date
1897-1914
Type
Print, Photographic, scanned image only
Identifier
750.112907.429
C7D2CCCC-1360-4E4F-BFE1-924105506279
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