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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Anne Aurand / The Bulletin
March 17, 2002
Long before logging trucks existed, horses dragged fresh-cut trees to the train tracks that wound through the woods surrounding Bend. Train cars dumped logs into the Deschutes River, where they floated in the pool behind a dam.
Almost 90 years later, that dam, near what is now the Colorado....