"Ox Power Logging...

"Logging crews of the J. W. Black Lumber Company will appreciate how the task of getting logs to the mill has been lightened by hard-surface roads and mechanical behicles [sic].  At the turn of the 20th century logging was made possible only by the dogged determination of the woodsman and his stolid bovine friends.  They were able to get through mudholes that mired down horses and saw-milling was a product of ox power.  The huge log was dragged out of the Black River Bottoms East of Corning and the railroad in the background is the Ferguson and Wheeler tram that reached from the mainline of the Iron Mountain to the Ferguson-Wheeler Mill on Black River, original site of Hecht City before the right-of-way was built in 1872.  The logger is identified as Bill Porter, a pioneer resident of Corning."

Submitted by Danny Moore