OLDER PHOTOS OF VALSETZ
THE LITTLE MILL TOWN THAT WAS BURNED & DOZED
Cobbs & Mictchell's Shay loky #104, tugging " big sticks " cross the high trestle over sunshine creek. one of five steam locomotives that were the work horses of the C&M woods operation
Engineer and conductor, P.W. "Casey" Jones, pictured with "chatterbox," one of three rail coaches which hauled freight and passengers between Valsetz and Independenct Oregon.
Valsetz planing mill workers, taken about 1940
PAULINE POWELL 1929
GRADUATION DAY FOR VALSETZ HIGH SCHOOL.
PAULINE POWELL WELLS CLARK 2004
PICTURES BELOW FROM RON JORGENSON
DEAD-END KIDS MID 40S
DRY KILN JITNEY LATE 40S
CUB SCOUTS MID 40S
CHAINING-UP VALSETZ HILL MID 50S
Copy of Pauline Powell's diploma
diploma case was deep purple
velvet with gold lettering
POND FULL OF LOGS
CAMP #6 BY VALSETZ
CAMP ONE BELOW-- TOP CAMP 1 SCHOOL.
POWELL'S HOME AT CAMP ONE
DENNO HOME BRADY HOME COBBS & MITCHELL OFFICE POWELL HOME
1925
BELOW PICTURES FROM PAULINE POWELL WELLS CLARK COLLECTION
SAWMILL 1925
PICTURES BELOW FROM LINDA ANDREASEN (GUMP)----- TAKEN 1977-1981 ?
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A group of Valsetz loggers pause beside their steam donky on a spur rail line where logs are loaded onto flatcars for ride to the mill.
around 1928.
This 1928 photo of Valsetz shows the barren, loged-off hills above the town. A few of many company-owned family homes are in foreground,
bunkhouses,left rear, drying and loading sheds, right rear.
Valsetz teachers dormitory and school
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Photo from The Valsetz Star by Ron Fowler
