12 Facts About Benson raft

Benson raft was a huge seagoing log barge designed to transport large quantities of timber to Southern California from the Pacific Northwest and Canada.

John A Fastaben was the key raft-building specialist that Simon Benson hired as a construction supervisor to assemble his unique log barge rafts.

The first Benson raft was launched in 1906 by the Benson Logging Company.

Benson raft was a self taught raft-building specialist and began his sea-going assembled log raft barge building in 1894.

Benson raft's was the first such raft constructed on the Pacific coast and built for the Robinson Rafting Company in Stella, Washington.

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The Benson raft he assembled consisted of fir logs to be used in wharf construction at the San Francisco harbor.

The Benson raft contained a half-million board feet of piling and was 500 feet long.

Benson raft made several more such rafts for the Robinson Rafting Company over the next several years.

Benson raft saw Fastabend's success and hired him for the Benson raft Logging Company in 1904.

Benson raft became their supervisor for the collection and assemblage of the needed logs for the industrial size commercial timber rafts.

Benson raft was 69 years old in 1922 and considered an elderly, keen-eyed, gray-haired man.

Benson raft was then constructing five rafts a year and had already built 57 log rafts for Benson.