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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.
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 1858 Wilson liquidated many of his assets and used the money to purchase a steam-powered sawmill and planing mill located in Peoria, Oregon, located about 7 miles east of Corvallis. [15] The facility was capable of turning out 12,000 board feet of lumber per day, material which allowed Wilson to clear an average of $7 per day. [15]
The log pond of the new lumber company leached various toxins, and nearby residents complained for years that they could taste the log pond in their drinking water. [11] In 1925 the company purchased The Grande Ronde Lumber Co. and its short-line railroad. [12] Railroad access enabled the movement of logs from Mt. Emily to the sawmill in La Grande.
The community was founded by Pennsylvania lumberman Edward D. Wetmore to support the sawmill operations of the Kinzua Pine Mills Company, that was named for the Kinzua Township in Pennsylvania. [4] [5] At one time Kinzua was the most populous community in Wheeler County and 330 people worked at the mill. [6]
Dawson was the terminus of the Southern Pacific Bailey Branch (later operated by the Willamette & Pacific Railroad), which served the local sawmill into the 1990s [1] but has since been abandoned. The Hull-Oakes Lumber Company sawmill in Dawson was the last steam-powered sawmill in the United States, and the only mill in the Pacific Northwest ...
Collier Memorial State Park is a state park in southern Oregon.The park is operated and maintained by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.It is located on U.S. Highway 97, approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of Klamath Falls and 105 miles (169 km) south of Bend.
Lot Whitcomb (1807–1857) was an American commercial entrepreneur and politician who established the city of Milwaukie, Oregon.After making a fortune milling and shipping lumber and timber for California gold miners, Whitcomb launched the first steamship in the U.S. state of Oregon.