User talk:Edna777

Correction
In my Jam of all Jams article (American Forests Magazine, Washington DC, June 1986, the 100th anniversary of the big Log Jam at Taylors Falls) I used quotes from the Taylors Falls Journal. You can see copies of this local newspaper at the MN Historical Society's website.

But the main correction I see is this: It was my understanding that the big rainstorm came first and then Davidson blew up the Clam River Dam right after it, not the other way around. I don’t remember where I read it, but it was a description of Davidson standing near the Dam and praising the rainstorm, then setting off the dynamite to break the dam to get enough water to float all those heavy logs down river to the sorting boom near Stillwater. The problem was the loggers were afraid they’d miss the flow of water. So they all pushed their logs into the river at once and there were too many logs at once so they got tangled up at Angle Rock.

Edna Curry www.ednacurry.com