LOGGING IN BREED
Researched, written
and contributed by:
Bill
Fonferek
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Breed Lumberjacks Jonas Hamburg, Swedish born immigrant, was a
lumberman and hired local Breed boys to work for him. Pictured are
Carl Kilyon, Cass Fonferek, Everette Suring, Clyde Flynn, and Albert Hardke
at his camp at Boulder Lake. During the summer, these boys were mostly
farmers, pulling stumps, clearing the land and planting crops. In
the winter, these guy would leave there families and head to the lumber
camps to earn extra money. They would catch the trains passing through
Breed headed up north. A big draw to any lumber camp was the quality
of the cooking.
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Most
of the men had experience with horses from their lives on the farm.
When the photographers would come to the camps, they would like to show
off their teams. Pictured are Ernest Schultz, Fred Schultz, Delly
Johnson, Carl Kilyon, Cass Fonferek and Everette Suring. Jonas
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Here is a crew of Breed men with their tools.
The axes were used to notch the tree to fell it in a certain direction
and to takes the limbs off of it before it was dragged away by the team
of horses. The two-man cross cut saw was used to cut the tree down.
Two men would have to work
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Jonas Hamburgs Lumber Camp at Boulder Lake. This seems
to be a group picture with the men at the camp. Its likely
Bill Fonferek After the trees are trimmed and cut to size they are
loaded on this sled
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Once the sled is loaded with logs, and all the sleds
are full, a steam log hauler takes the load out to the place where the
logs can be loaded onto the trains headed south to the mills or they are
placed in the river to be floated down stream to the mill. Several
of these holding ponds were created on the Oconto River; Townsend Flowage
and Chute Pond. When the spring floods would come the logs were released
and
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Cass Fonferek and Everett Suring relaxing at Jonas Hamburgs Logging Camp. contributed by:
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Here my Dad, Cass Fonferek and Albert Winters pose on a load of logs. The Log Hauler was called a "Snow Snake" by the men. contributed by: Bill Fonferek This is the hub of the lumber camp, the cook shed. Pictured are the cook and some of her helpers. From left to right; 4th from left is George Fonferek and 5th is Hank Klawitter. From the right is Mrs Duhl, her son Charlie Jr, and Charlie Duhl Sr. Bill Fonferek |
Here the men are loading the loags on the trains from
the sleds. My Uncle Frank Fonferek is driving the team of horses
that lifts the logs
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Here is another fun shots of the men relaxing before
the camera. Men in
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Another camp with some Breed folks. Pictured are John Peterson far left. 4th from left my Aunt Anna Fonferek, Lawrence Jorgenson, my Grampa William Fonferek, and his son-in-law Charlie Peterson. contributed by:
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Another lumberjack fun photo. This is my Uncle
Peter Fonferek, probably
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