Jordan River Valley Lumberjack Camp Map
| I read the story on a picture of the Lumberjacks and did some
thinking about where the "Jacks" may have camped in the lumber camp
talked about. As I said, I have walked some of the old grade while
hunting. The old grade, as much as I know ran on a line that I have
marked in red on the map. The old logging camps were named for the
section that they were located in. I know that there was a sawmill in
Chestonia, I skidded logs for them for a while during the summer, when I
was still a Teenager. I don't know how long the old sawmill might have
been there, or if it was a big enough operation to have a logging train.
But I do know that the rails seemed to run that was, my son lives near
Chestonis, and he said that there is an old railroad grade going behind
his place, for what it might be worth.
Photo and text courtesy of John S Tipton Sr. |