More than 4,000 trees, mostly jackpines, were set in the Paul Bunyan forest on the lakefront, according to W. A. Engstrom of the U.S. Forest Service, Cass Lake, who supervised the setting of each one. CCC enrollees from Company 705 at Pike Bay worked 250 man days to put them in place. Engstrom even captured the natural contours of a forest in the job.
The WPA gets credit for furnishing the two buildings in Bunyan’s lakefront camp which are Sourdough Sam’s cook shanty and the warming house. The buildings are part of a dismantled camp near Hines, loaned to the Carnival committee.
Lieut. Greg Brown will supervise 20 CCC enrollees who will be biscuit shooters in Sourdough Sam’s cook shanty. He says he can feed 2,000 persons a day and he has 1,200 pounds of sausage, a half ton of pancake flour, and an output of 300 gallons of coffee a day to prove it. Three flop-notch cooks – Cliff Dahl, Harry Bromer and Morris Hudgins – are going to be a big help too.
The logging equipment which the carnival committee has gathered together at Bunyan’s Logging Camp comprises nearly all of the old horse-drawn man-operated logging tools still in existence The water tank, road-rutter, tote-sled are practically museum pieces and there were hard to get too. Major Adam Otto, carnival secretary, found them at Red Lake and had to split with a Winnipeg logging firm to put over the deal. They belong to the carnival now. (Bemidji Daily Pioneer, Jan 12, 1938)