Cutting Railroad Ties Above Buffalo

I cannot find my grandfather, Otha Marse (Sam) Grace in the 1930 census, which was taken not long before he married my grandmother, Edna Pearl Merrill, in Buffalo, Wyoming. So I asked Grandma where he might have been, and she said he had spent some time in the Big Horn Mountains, cutting railroad ties. Sounds like a place he might easily have been overlooked, when the census taker came through.

So anyhow, I found this little story (not about him) added a teensy bit of background to how cutting ties would work. Teensy!!!

Buffalo News, 14 January 1926, page 1
http://pluto.state.wy.us:8080/awweb/awarchive?item=1362835

O. L. Bartholomew Returns to Buffalo

O. L. Bartholomew, who proved to the world that ties cut in the Big Horn Mountains above Buffalo could be floated down Clear Creek successfully, returned to Buffalo Saturday evening after an extended business trip in the east. He is here on tie business. Mr. Bartholomew expresses himself in a very optimistic manner over the prospects of the North and South Railroad.