Logging crew for the Adna Mill Company working with a steam powered locomotive. The Adna Mill had an average capacity of 60,000 feet of lumber and 830,000 shingles per day and employed 90 men. Photograph c. 1909.
Two workers for the Stillwater Lumber Co. posing next to felled lumber (9 ft. 2 in. diameter and 9 ft. 8 in. diameter). The Stillwater Lumber Co. at Little Falls had a daily capacity of 100,000 feet of lumber and employed over one hundred workers. Photograph c. 1909.
Splash dam created by the Lytle Logging and Mercantile Company near Hoquiam, Washington on the Elk River. A splash dam is a temporary wooden structure used to raise the water level of streams to float logs downstream. The company employed over 250 men and produced 45 million feet of logs in 1902. Photograph c. 1903.
Cowboy Buffalo Vernon wrestling a steer at the Round-Up rodeo event in Pendleton, Oregon, 1910. The following year, steer wrestling or, "bulldogging," became an official event at the Pendleton Round-Up. Photograph by W. S. Bowman, September, 1910.
Ella Lazinka at the first Round-Up, Pendleton, Oregon, 1910. Lazinka took 14 minutes, and nine and a half seconds to run the three day relay at one mile each day, and won the first relay against noted cowgirl Bertha Blancett. Photograph by W. S. Bowman September, 1910.
The 18 acre Billy Turner Ranch orchards in Wenatchee Valley, overlooking the town of Wenatchee, Washington. The Turner Ranch contained 15 acres of orchards that averaged 90 trees to the acre which produced apples, peaches, pears, apricots and prunes. Photograph by B. C Collier, c. 1908.
Wheat warehouses in Ritzville, Washington with two teams of horses hitched to wagons for transporting the sacked wheat. Ritzville exported 1,856 cars of wheat and 563 cars of flour between 1901 to 1902. Photograph c. 1903.
Steam plow on John Hoffman's farm in Eureka Flats, near Waitsburg in Walla Walla County, Washington. Hoffman, a German immigrant, owned 8,000 total acres of wheat producing farmland in Walla Walla County before retiring in 1903 at the age of 51. Photograph by the Holt Manufacturing Company, Stockton, California, c. 1903.
Overhead perspective of F. G. Monroe ranch workers branding cattle three and a half miles Southwest of Sprague, Washington. Photograph by T.T. Richardson, c. 1908.
Sacks of grain await shipment at Davenport, Washington, where more than a million bushels of wheat were exported in 1901 and as many as 15,000 and 20,000 bushels were produced in one season. Davenport is the county seat of Lincoln County in what the Coast magazine, called part of the "Big Bend Wheat Country" of Eastern Washington. Photograph c. 1902.
Teams of horses hitched to a threshing combine on the Robert Gunning ranch near Davenport, Washington. The wind guard on the rear of the combine keeps air from upsetting the threshing (separation) process and stores the chaff from the grain. Photograph by Paige, c. 1908.
Laborers in a sheep shearing corral owned by Lloyd and McKerlie near Ellensburg, Washington. Ellensburg is located in Kittitas County where thousands of sheep were wintered in the low lands of the south and eastern parts of the county along the Columbia and Yakima Rivers. Sheep were normally shorn in the springtime when its heavy fleece would not be needed to keep the animal warm. Photograph by Paultzke, Otto W., Ellensburg, c. 1908.
The Puget Mill Company sawmill in Port Gamble, Washington with three masted sailing ships docked for shipments and a log pond in the foreground for lumber awaiting processing. Photograph taken June 14, 1900.
Cowboys assembled for a steer roping contest. The 1910 Round-Up was the first annual event and drew 7,000 attendees. Text from photo: "Cow boys ready for the steer roping contest. The Round-Up. Pendleton, OR." Photograph by W. S. Bowman, September, 1910.
Ella Lazinka on horseback holding a trophy for the relay race at the 1910 Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon. Lazinka won first place for the first two years of the competition and retired in her third year due to an accident which injured her leg. Photograph by W. S. Bowman September, 1910.