Larry & Eleanor Arneson

Eleanor writes "we moved to Headquarters in 1947 and lived there for 37 1/2 years.  It took some getting used to esp. when Larry was at camp for ten months, coming home on Saturday evening on the speeder and leaving Sunday evening.  I took pictures of the deep snow the first year as I had never thought I would see snow that deep again.  I was certainly in for a surprise.
I found that it was one big happy family and we realy made lasting friends there."

Larry remembers helping to survey railroad track to the Lewiston Plywood plant and rebuilding bridges on the Beaver Creek railroad. Then to Orofino to lay road in the Elk Creek country and helping to establish Camp Y.
Later He helped survey the railroads in Sliver Creek and Scofield Creek.  Those days we had lots of uncut timber and few roads.  The railroads declined and we had more trucks.  We also used flumes to put logs in the river.  We saw the change from log camps six miles form Headquarters with as many as 80 to 100 men to no logging camps; from dirt road that were mud in the spring and fall to gravel and blacktop.-Collen Seeley Ross