Logging in north Carolina: This picture, taken
about 60 years ago, shows a portable steam engine in use for
logging operations in north Carolina. The photo appeared this
summer in the Transylvania Times and the Highlands Highlander. It
is the property of Mrs J L Gillispie whose husband was in it. Clyde
Osborne, editor of the Transylvania Times, who very kindly enabled
us to use the photo, says the crew of men and animals was employed
by the old Gloucester Lumber Co. at Rosman, 9 miles west of
Brevard, North Carolina. He adds: ‘No one now living seems to
know anything at all about the monster with the tall
smokestack.’ The caption on the photo as it appeared in the
Times says The tall smokestack kept smoke out of the eyes of the
sawing crew when the portable boiler was getting up a head of steam
‘ We appreciate the assistance of Editor Osborne; and of Lee B.
Copple of the Highlander, who wrote about the company. Gerry
Lestz
by the old Gloucester Lumber Co. at Rosman, 9 miles west of
Brevard, North Carolina. He adds: ‘No one now living seems to
know anything at all about the monster with the tall
smokestack.’ The caption on the photo as it appeared in the
Times says The tall smokestack kept smoke out of the eyes of the
sawing crew when the portable boiler was getting up a head of steam
‘ We appreciate the assistance of Editor Osborne; and of Lee B.
Copple of the Highlander, who wrote about the company. Gerry
Lestz
