In August 1925, former Johnson Lumber Company General Manager James McGraw recorded his firsthand recollections of the Bog Pond Tract in Lincoln, documenting nearly a decade of logging operations, timber sales, and industrial expansion within the Upper Pemigewasset region wilderness. His account traces the rise of the Johnson Lumber Company, the transfer of the tract to the Matson Manufacturing Company, and the transformation of the remote forest into one of the region’s ambitious early twentieth-century lumber enterprises.

In a letter dated December 1928, Harold describes his winter journey into Franconia Notch and the Pemigewasset Wilderness, where he finds work with the Parker-Young Company on the East Branch logging railroad. From ski trails and chance rides to life in a remote lumber camp beneath Mt. Bond, he offers a vivid and often humorous glimpse into daily life in the woods—complete with rough bunkhouses, booming cookshacks, and the rugged rhythms of logging operations deep in the White Mountains.