In the summer and fall of 1948 on the mountain slopes above Priest Lake, the Diamond Match Division cut nearly 40,000,000 board feet of timber into 16-foot logs, each weighing about one ton. Trucks with willy, dare-devil drivers, horse skidders, flumes, and the Idaho Jammer brought the logs down the mountain to Priest Lake, and tugboats moved them to the south end of the lake before the winter freeze. When the ice went out in mid-April 1949, veteran loggers of the Priest Lake country assembled to drive the logs down 60 miles of icy, swirling water. Armed with pea vies, cant hooks, and pikepoles, they used boats like this bateau to break and fight dangerous log jams. When the drive reached Albini Falls, a logger's celebration followed, with a week of beer and tales of the drive. This was remembered as the last Priest River log drive, marking the passing of the era of log drives and river men.