Steam-Driven Tractor Hauling Wood for Dredges, c1920. Celebrations; Buildings Annie Harper

Annie Harper

Close in view of a totem pole in an unidentified Alaskan location

Caption: Head of Lake Bennett

Inscription recto: R

Two women are visible in the background as is a fence

Steam-Driven Tractor Hauling Wood for Dredges, c1920. Celebrations; Buildings Annie HarperBlack and white view of a tractor hauling wood. Caption: A steam driven snow tractor hauling wood to a dredging site for use in thawing frozen gravel in front of a dredge. Below a foot or so, the ground was always frozen except in gravel stream beds "perma frost". As much as 10,000 cords of wood would be accumulated for these operations. (About this time cold water thawing was developed wood had become too scarce and expensive.)