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Many of the great flumes fell into disrepair and were salvaged for lumber. [6] By 1984, only one lumber flume was operating in the United States. [6]: 158 The Broughton Lumber flume was a nine-mile (14 km) V-flume that transported rough-sawn lumber from Willard, Washington to a finishing mill in Hood, just west of the town of Underwood. The ...
Moving logs at the mill, 1985 Lumber from the Mill, 1985. The mill was built in 1851. [4] William Fraser Chisholm (1829-1908) bought the mill in 1857 when it was known as Shipman's Mill, [1] or Shipman’s Flour and Sawmill. [5] At that time the property was a water-powered flour mill, a feed mill, and a sawmill. [1]
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 ...
Baldwin Locomotive Works built two 2-6-0 locomotives named Tahoe and Glenbrook. Either locomotive could pull six flatcars of lumber to the summit, and trains sometimes used twelve cars with one locomotive pulling and the other pushing. By 1877 the railroad had 75 flatcars; and a third similar locomotive was built that year to move the desired ...
[3]: 59 The mill employed about 250 workers year-round, mostly in the planning mill, box factory and shipping yards. [12] Approximately 13,000 log cars per season arrived at the mill. [3]: 52 The cars were about forty-one feet long and they held about 7,500 board feet of lumber. A normal train was about thirty-five cars and would make a little ...
At the mill the logs were captured by a log boom, and the logs were sorted for ownership before being sawn. [7] Log drives were often in conflict with navigation, as logs would sometimes fill the entire river and make boat travel dangerous or impossible. [15]
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The main mill building, dating to 1902, is a three-part structure, whose largest section is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure with a gabled roof, with a shed-roofed extension along its western side. Attached to the southeastern corner, and extending over the streambed, is a single-story wing with a gable roof oriented parallel to the highway.