Re: Pine Beetle Ties?

Greetings:

In regards to your comments about the Edward Hines Lumber Company's operations in the Eastern Oregon areas of Hines/Burns and Bear Valley (Harney and Grant Counties), I add these comments.

While the sawmill at Camp One may have cut ties, the railroad did not go east to Summit Prairie for a numbef of years. The ties would have been used on the early logging spurs around the south and west of Bear Valley.

Also, I believe Camp One was established before the Edward Hines company was involved in the operations at Hines and Bear Valley. Fred Herrick was the lumber operator who started the show.

Tom Armstrong