The Zybach Collection · Jedediah Smith
Photographic Report #2: June 21, 2023 JSS Umpqua Memorial Stone Placement
Bob Zybach, Chair, JSS Umpqua Memorial Committee; with David Gould, Coos Bay Timber Operators, Mike Main, Main Rock, and Josh Mast, Mast Brothers · 22 June 2023
The day the stone was moved: loaded at the quarry on Kentuck Creek, hauled to the mouth of the Smith River, and set by a tow truck lent for the purpose. Photographs and captions by the creator, naming the businesses and the people who did the work.
- Extent
- 9 pages, 604 words of text
- Held
- 2 pages are withheld from this edition pending review. Each keeps its number and its anchor.
- The creator’s file
- Zybach-JSS_20230622.pdf, 13.8M — in his own folder.
Photographic Report #2: June 21, 2023 JSS Umpqua Memorial Stone Placement Bob Zybach, Chair, JSS Umpqua Memorial Committee David Gould, Coos Bay Timber Operators Mike Main, Main Rock Josh Mast, Mast Brothers David Gould, Coos Bay Timber Operators, with Umpqua Memorial stone he selected and sanded at the Main Rock quarry in North Bend, Oregon. The rock was transported to this location at the western mouth of Smith River where it enters the Umpqua River in Douglas County, Oregon by Coos Bay Timber Operators and placed into position by Mast Brothers on June 21, 2023. The Memorial stone and all related time, equipment, and services have been entirely donated to this point by these three local businesses. This final placement of the Umpqua Memorial stone follows more than 20 years of effort by members of the Jedediah Smith Society. A brass plaque is being prepared that will commemorate the nearby burial site of 11 of the 14 or 15 beaver trappers killed near here on July 14, 1828 while employed by the Smith, Jackson & Sublette fur trading company. Burials were subsequently completed on October 28, 1828 by expedition leader and business co-owner, Jedediah Smith, and by Hudson's Bay Company brigade leader, Alexander Roderick McLeod. Photos and captions by Bob Zybach. JSS Umpqua Memorial -- Zybach, Gould, Main & Mast 20230622 1
David Gould and Chris Williams, Coos Bay Timber Operators, discuss loading and transporting the Umpqua Memorial stone with Mike Main, co-owner of Main Rock quarry, and new hires, Luke Jackson and Lincoln Sparks, Mike's grandsons. The quarry is located on Kentuck Creek, near the town of North Bend, Coos County, Oregon. Photo taken June 21, 2023. JSS Umpqua Memorial -- Zybach, Gould, Main & Mast 20230622 2
Coos Bay Timber Operators' Kenworth high lift tailgate dump truck and driver, Chris Williams, checking in with Main Rock office, North Bend, Oregon. Main Rock's Komatsu WA480 loader putting bedding gravel onto Coos Bay Timber Operators dump truck for hauling with Memorial stone to Umpqua burial site. JSS Umpqua Memorial -- Zybach, Gould, Main & Mast 20230622 3
Main Rock's Komatsu PC800 excavator lifting Umpqua Memorial stone. Main Rock's Komatsu PC800 depositing Memorial rock into bed of Coos Bay Timber Operators Kenworth dump truck, June 21, 2023. David Gould watches from background. JSS Umpqua Memorial -- Zybach, Gould, Main & Mast 20230622 4
David Gould directs Coos Bay Timber Operators truck driver, Chris Williams, into dumping of gravel and Memorial stone at destination of Smith River mouth on the Umpqua River, in Douglas County, Oregon, June 21, 2023. David Gould, Coos Bay Timber Operators, watches as Memorial stone rolls to the edge of a steep bank above Umpqua River tidal flats before thankfully stopping, June 21, 2023. JSS Umpqua Memorial -- Zybach, Gould, Main & Mast 20230622 5
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Mast Brothers donated the use of their Peterbilt heavy-duty rotator tow truck to lift and place the Umpqua Memorial stone into its permanent location at mouth of Smith River, Oregon, June 21, 2023. Val Furnbaugh, Mast Brothers, and David Gould, Coos Bay Timber Operators, preparing to move Umpqua Memorial stone into its permanent location at mouth of Smith River, Oregon, June 21, 2023. JSS Umpqua Memorial -- Zybach, Gould, Main & Mast 20230622 7
David Gould, Coos Bay Timber Operators, watches as Josh Mast, Mast Brothers, moves Memorial stone into its permanent location near the mouth of Smith River, Oregon, June 21, 2023. Josh Mast, Mast Brothers, lowers Umpqua Memorial stone into permanent location under direction of David Gould, Coos Bay Timber Operators, June 21, 2023. JSS Umpqua Memorial -- Zybach, Gould, Main & Mast 20230622 8
Withheld from this edition pending review. The item keeps its place in the register and its permanent link.
Provenance
- Author
- Bob Zybach, Chair, JSS Umpqua Memorial Committee; with David Gould, Coos Bay Timber Operators, Mike Main, Main Rock, and Josh Mast, Mast Brothers
- Date
- 22 June 2023
- Rights
- In copyright. The creator publishes this himself; the Library’s copy is a display copy; permission being recorded.
- How this was made
- Text taken from the creator’s own PDF and printed page by page, unedited. Line breaks follow the page; nothing is joined up, corrected or spelled differently.
How to cite this item
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- As printed
- Zybach, Bob. Photographic Report #2: June 21, 2023 JSS Umpqua Memorial Stone Placement. 22 June 2023. NW Maps Co. / Oregon Websites and Watershed Project, Inc.
- This page
- Zybach, 2023. 9 pages. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/jedediah-smith/writings/report-2-stone-placement/
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- Zybach, 2023, page 1 — Zybach-JSS_20230622.pdf:1
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