River Pigs on Priest River.
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River Pigs dismantling a log jam on Priest River. Once the logs started to move the men made a mad dash to avoid being swept downstream with the freed logs. Sometimes dynamite was needed to break up a jam. Courtesy of John Howard.
This file appears in: The River Pigs of Logging
The River Pigs of Logging
The River Pigs of Logging
The remote virgin forests of northern Idaho represented a fortune in timber--if it could be brought to market. In areas not immediately adjacent to a railroad, the fast-moving rivers offered an economical way to get…