spruceproductiondivision

This area is now the Agate Beach Wayside parking lot, in Newport, Oregon. The hotel in the photo was known as "Hotel Monterey". The highway is located about where the trestle is in this photo. Here is another view, taken about the same time: www.flickr.com/photos/forestservicenw/21417552814/

From Wikipedia: "Arthur M. Prentiss was an American photographer born c. 1865 and died c. 1940. Some of his photos are part of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection held in the Library Of Congress and most of his work was developed in Oregon." He published a collection of photographs in 1918 titled, "Spruce helped win the war: a portrayal of the personnel, railroad construction, timber cutting and shipping, camp life and kindred subjects necessary to the production of airplane spruce in unlimited quantities for the United States and her allies." At the time Prentiss was the official photographer for the Warren Spruce Company and Grant Smith-Porter Brothers.

Thanks for the info!

It's so sad that they decimated all of the big the trees in Oregon.

I think you have been duped.Even though the majority of the old growth timber in Oregon has been cut,there is still quite a bit through out the State.I live in Douglas County and I dont have to drive very far in any direction to show them to you.