Offbeat Oregon: Oregon's wandering timber town

an interesting piece about logging in central Oregon before and during the Depression

By Finn J.D. John
Special to the News-Register 

The U.S. Post Office inspector was puzzled. He’d just arrived at the tiny logging-company town of Shevlin, deep in the ponderosa pine woods south of Bend — and found it gone.

Shade trees still towered over manicured home sites. A stray whiff drifted in the wind from an open pit where an outhouse once had stood. 

And on the spot where he’d expected to find the Shevlin Post Office, there was nothing but the bare outline of a building.

The entire town of 600 was gone, as if abducted by aliens.

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