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The Act of 1704 encouraged the import of naval stores form New England, offering £4 per ton of tar or pitch, £3 per ton of resin of turpentine, and £1 per ton of masts and bowsprits (40 cubic feet). The Act of 1705 forbade the cutting of unfenced or small pitch pine and tar trees with a diameter less than twelve inches.
Pine logs were shipped from Oregon by train. The structure is built on a steel frame resting on a 2-yard (1.8 m) thick concrete foundation. [3] As completed in 1923, the 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m 2) lodge cost US$5 million (equivalent to $70 million in 2016). [3]
Logs were moved more efficiently by railroads built into remote forest areas, often supported by additional methods like high-wheel loaders, tractors and log flumes. [14] The largest high-wheel loader, the "Bunyan Buggie," was built in 1960 for service in California, featuring wheels 24 feet (7.3 m) high. [15]
GE 45 Ton: Shop switcher: Built April 1953 as #31795. Ex White Pine Copper mine WPCR #1. 112: Russel Snow Plow: Active: Built in 1967 from a 40-foot boxcar by the E&LS shop men at Wells to replace a wooden Russell plow, entered service in 1968, is painted in company colors, stored at Channing, Mi. [67] 300: RS-12: Active: Built January 1953 as ...
The Madera Sugar Pine Company was a United States lumber company that operated in the Sierra Nevada region of California during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company distinguished itself through the use of innovative technologies, including the southern Sierra's first log flume and logging railroad, along with the early adoption of the Steam Donkey engine.
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The train from Central Camp to the mill in Pinedale took about 16 to 18 hours, carrying around 80 cars of logs per trip. [8] From Central Camp, 150 mi (240 km) of logging rails were laid to reach outlying timber tracts. Fifty trestles were required to span the steep terrain. Trestle Number 14 was the highest at 110 feet (34 m) feet high.
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