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Workers milling logs in the steam-powered sawmill, during the Great Oregon Steam-Up of 2006. The signature event at Powerland Heritage Park is the Great Oregon Steam-Up, an event held each year during mid-summer (end of July and beginning of August) when many of the exhibits, normally displayed in a non-operational state, are fired up and shown running.
The Woodard Company assigned the 3 to its sawmill in Cottage Grove, Oregon. In 1942, the sawmill, and the locomotive along with it, was sold to J. H. Chambers & Son. They kept it for just four years before selling to facility and locomotive to the Lorane Valley Lumber Company in 1946.
For example, the Oregon Lumber Company would soon receive an award of sale of 124 million board feet of lumber in 1916. [4] Stange had been impressed with the quality of Pacific Northwest lumber that arrived by Union Pacific railroad, and in 1910 he and his son, August J. Stange, ventured west to survey the forests around Mt. Emily in Eastern ...
Yesler arrived in Seattle from Ohio in 1852 [2] and built a steam-powered sawmill, which provided numerous jobs for those early settlers and Duwamish tribe members. The mill was located right on the Elliott Bay waterfront, at the foot of what is now known as Yesler Way [1] and was then known as Mill Road or the "Skid Road," so named for the practice of "skidding" greased logs down the steep ...
Steam powered sawmills could be far more mechanized. Scrap lumber from the mill provided a ready fuel source for firing the boiler. Efficiency was increased, but the capital cost of a new mill increased dramatically as well. [10] In addition, the use of steam or gasoline-powered traction engines also allowed the entire sawmill to be mobile. [12 ...
In 1950, Brooks-Scanlon bought the neighboring Shevlin-Hixon sawmill. The acquisition included the Shevlin-Hixon sawmill and adjacent property, all of its railroad and logging equipment, and large tracts of central Oregon timber lands along with the associated water rights. [34] [42] [43] The Shevlin-Hixon sawmill was closed at the end of 1950.
By 1884, they had become one of the largest producers of steam traction engines, plus building industrial, railroad and agricultural equipment. [2] By 1909, the 21 acre plant had produced 18,000 farm, traction and stationary engines, plus 22,000 threshing machines. They also made sawmills, pneumatic stackers, feeders and road rollers. [3]
Powered by 13 natural springs located beside the mill, it is thought to be one of the largest of its kind in the world. - Mill Springs; Wisenberger Mill, near Midway; Maine. Bog Mill, Buxton; Dexter Grist Mill, Dexter, built in 1854; Maine Forest & Logging Museum also known as Leonard's Mills, has Maine's only operational saw mill.