Hallback
Senior Member
I would bet the guy that took the leap to AK made millions. If you worked and put your time in you made huge $$$ as a contractor up there in the heyday.
I guess this is as good a thread as any to make my first post on. My Dad was a logger in NW Oregon and looked at a job in SW Alaska for Ketchikan Pulp, but it was too far out of his experience level, so he moved to the Klamath River country in N. Calif to start logging there. That was in 1954 and he said later that the guy who took the Alaska job became a millionaire, but maybe that was just wishful thinking on his part. One of his friends did go to Alaska and logged with his own small sawmill, name was Earl Brown. Now if I could just remember which island or inlet he was located on?