Michigan Forestry Exhibit - World's Fair ND
| Aluminium | 6.11 g | 38.2 mm |
| Location | United States |
|---|---|
| Type | Medals › Commemorative medals |
| Composition | Aluminium |
| Weight | 6.11 g |
| Diameter | 38.2 mm |
| Thickness | 2.2 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Updated | 2024-11-12 |
| Numista | N#303460 |
|---|---|
| Rarity index | 97% |
Reverse
The reverse shows a load of logs on a horse-drawn sled with the legends above Champion Load Of Logs. Below 36055 Feetwheight 144 Tons / Drawn By Est. Of / Thomas Nestor. Thomas Nestor established a mill in Pequaming in 1879, adding another nearby. His firm grew to include a shipping fleet on Lake Superior. The World's Fair Load of Logs, 36,055 feet, was hauled by Thomas Nester's crew to Ontonogan River, Michigan on February 26, 1893. They exhibited the load in Chicago at the World's Fair as the largest load of logs ever hauled in the world and hauled by one team. Height of load 33 feet 3 inches, weight of logs 144 tons. Sled teams routinely competed for such drinking honors at the end of the day.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
CHAMPION LOAD OF LOGS
36055 FEETWEIGHT 144 TONS
DRAWN BY EST. OF
THOMAS NESTOR
Edge
Plain
Comment
The largest load of logs ever hauled out of the woods consisted of 36,055 feet of virgin Michigan pine. The logs averaged eighteen feet in length. The height of the load was thirty-three feet and three inches. The weight was one hundred and forty-four tons. This load was decked by a chain and a team of horses. It was hauled by a team on iced roads to the Ontonagon river, then rafted in the spring to the nearest railroad where it was loaded onto nine flatcars and shipped to the Chicago World's Fair to be used in buildings there. As many a forty million feet of logs were taken out of the woods by one outfit in one season.The load was immortalized in a historic photograph:
