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Brailing Pockets — Scalers at Work

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Description: Group of lumber workers standing on logs floating in Beef Slough.
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At Work in Beef Slough

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Description: Elevated view of dozens of workers standing on planks and using poles to maneuver logs in Beef Slough, near Alma.
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Steamer "E. Rutledge" in Beef Slough

Date: 1885
Description: View from shoreline of the sternwheel steamer "E. Rutledge," owned by Weyerhaeuser & Denkmann's Rock Island Lumber Company, picking up a raft of logs at Be...
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Swing Boom, Beef Slough

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Description: Two men on an 1,150 foot long swing boom above Alma, which is in the distance on the opposite shoreline.
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Moving Logs Through Beef Slough

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Description: Panoramic view of workers in Beef Slough arranging logs for transport.
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Beef Slough Near Alma

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Description: Lumber raft in the water near the shoreline with two paddle wheel steamboats and a bluff in the distance.

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