Completed flume showing logs splashing into creek on the way to Snoqualmie River.

Edward and David Hartley near base of big hollow butted cedar approximately three miles north of Sultan, Washington, August 3, 1908.

After dinner at camp near Woods Lake looking southeast, across the creek, a fine stand of fir and cedar. Edward and David Hartley in foreground. (August 20, 1908) —Roland Hartley

Fine stand of old growth Douglas fir on Woods Lake Road. Sun at high noon. Looking northwest. Roland and David Hartley on old cedar stump in lower right-hand corner for size comparison.

These trees run from 1 to 11 feet in diameter across the stump, 150 to 180 feet to the first limb, where they will be topped of at 36 inches; are 500 to 1000 years old. Witnessing one of them being felled to the ground, I always think of Mark Twain’s words on Damascus: “Damascus, the pearl of the East, the pride of Syria, the fabled Garden of Eden, the home of Princess and Genie of the Arabian Knights, the oldest metropolis on earth, the one city in all the world that has kept its name and held its place and looked serenely on while the kingdoms and empires of 4,000 years have risen to life, enjoyed their brief season of pride and pomp, and then vanished and then forgotten. (August 15, 1908) — Roland Hartley

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