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1. Interview with Charlie Wight, Part 1, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Wight, Charlie
- Date Created:
- 1953-03-14
- Description:
- Vandersluis speaks with Charlie Wight, timber cruiser, on March 14, 1953, in the doctor's office. Wight talks about where he was born; his family's move to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; lumbering activity in Western Wisconsin; whether there were any Native Americans living at Chippewa Falls; birch bark canoes on the Chippewa River; his grandfather helping install the first turbine wheel at the Chippewa River; his grandfather helping install the first turbine wheel at the Chippewa Falls mill; the reaches of the Weyerhaeuser company; how they moved lumber down river by rafts; brailing logs; and pool companies that took over on the Mississippi. Wight then discusses working as a cookee at a camp in Wisconsin; driving a one-horse tram car at the mill; where men from the mills went in the winter; toting supplies; learning the timber estimating business as a compass man with Billy Woods; how they travelled to the land they were cruising; supplies they packed; what areas they cruised; finding section corners scribed into trees; seeing the Red Lake-Leech Lake trail and other trails; what they saw on the north shore of Lake Bemidji; a bridge near Lake Andrusia and any other bridges; about the Farmer-Hines railroad; where he went after that first trip; mills and bridges at Brainerd; the Gull River Lumber Company's narrow gauge railroad; other cruising jobs; and early fires. Next, Wight discusses his acquaintances with Marcus D. Stoner and Sam Dolgaard; some logging operations around Turtle River; Dan Freeman logging at Long Lake; Freeman and Gray splitting up; where Bagley started working for Walker; about S. C. Bagley; Bagley's nephew, Buzzle; where logs went from Mallard Lake; and which loggers collaborated. This record contains parts of multiple interviews. Please refer to the transcripts for help understanding these.
- Contributing Institution:
- Beltrami County Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
2. Map of Duluth: Duluth-Superior Minnesota "Twin Ports" Wisconsin
- Creator:
- McGill-Warner Company, St. Paul, Minnesota
- Date Created:
- 1935
- Description:
- Duluth; Superior Wisconsin; Twin Ports; Duluth street and avenue index; Superior street and avenue index; population
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Cartographic
- Format:
- Maps
3. Map of Duluth: In and Out of Duluth
- Creator:
- Long, Nelson A; Duluth Chamber of Commerce
- Date Created:
- 1922 - 1923
- Description:
- For the Guidance of Visitors Who May Not Know Upon Whom to Call for Information When Entering a Strange City; drawings by N. A. Long; Places of Interest; Accommodations; Traffic Regulations; Duluth city limits; Proctor; Two Harbors; parks; streets; hotels; arterial highways; boulevard; Pike Lake
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
- Type:
- Cartographic
- Format:
- Tourist maps
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