Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1916 — She Runs a Logging Camp. [ARTICLE]

She Runs a Logging Camp.

Logging is the vocation of Mrs. Bessie Piatte of Coos Bay, Ore. Gloved and aproned, she is on the job from early morning till late at night, for she has found that when she wants a thing done well she can do it herself. She hires her own men and she “fires" them herself. There is no camp that gets out more logs per man at Coos Bay than that of Mrs. Piatte. When Mrs. Piatte went to Coos Bay in 1915 she was cooking for a camp. Later this camp closed down. It opened again under new management with a new crew and took Mrs. Piatte as cook. After four months the camp failed. With the example of these two failures Mrs. Piatte took the camp and ran it herself. She had. profited by the mistakes she had seen the men make and so .her logging was a success. ---