Photo--black and white: Photo identified by R.S.Sturgeon as "Logging 44." Falling on the Gualala River (Sonoma County) California. L to R: Steve Tisconi and Bill Brain. 1900 Handwritten on verso by Ralph Sturgeon- "The larger trees to fall--welded two falling saws together. No shown in this picture--Vance Randal. Vance had a partner who Walter Brain knew well but can't or couldn't recall his name. Many, many of the larger logs that did go t the sawmills, they used augers, bored holes (sometimes light tubing driven into holes to make a cleaner no slab split.) Clay tamped tight lower end--then black powder, fuses and clay. (I, Ralph Sturgeon here at Sturgeon's Mill, 2150 Green Hill Rd. Sebastopol, 95472,) always used two fuses (the kind one lights a match to) so in case one went out, the other took. One's judgment as to where goes the hold, and how deep, the load of powder, were the things to judge and know. Usually the hole closer to butt end of log. I never used the "pipe" splitter that went into end of the log."