Emma Hardwick sent us these photos of the Caldor Logging Operation where her Great-Great-Grandfather and her Great-Grandfather both worked. She describes the location of the mill as, “The mill was located quite a ways off Grizzly Flat road just after you passed Cole’s Station”
That is Emma’s Great-Grandfather W.A. Williams squatting in the lower right.
The Caldor crew loading logs onto a rail car. See brake wheel in lower left
Bringing the logs to a landing by having them come down a chute. No water, no chamfering of the front of the log. It would be interesting to know how well that worked.
Oh, oh, lost part of the load.
Emma tells us that: “My Great- Great Grandfather, John Williams was a cook there. To see him, see coat on post, under that is a man with a mustache, in front of that man is an older man wearing a hat with suspenders. That man is John Williams, a cook, and father of William Albert Williams.”
In the first photo with William A. Williams, he was my Great Grandfather. I may have accidentally written Grandfather for him.
Also my Grandfather, Fred Neff worked at Caldor in the 1930’s and at Omo Ranch in the 1940’s for Wetsel-Oviett.
My step-dad Clyde Evans was a foreman at Omo Ranch in the 40’s. We actually lived there.
Trying to find pictures in and around 1943.
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Ted Bair
Hi Emma
Thank you for this wonderful article about
your family members that worked there.
I appreciate your photos very much!
I arrived too late on our family tree to experience this amazing enterprise.
I am descended from the
Charles Webster Doe line and take pride
in what my great great uncles and great grandfather accomplished.
Sue Shores
Thank you for the photos. My great grandfather was Emil Meyer whom I heard was also associated with Caldor. I am researching Meyer history and have come across the names Webster and Hardwick.