![]() To get the logs from the forest to the mill, oxen skidded the logs through the rough terrain to dry chutes, which were made of two parallel saplings, where horses would speed them to either the mill, the lake, or later, railroad landings. Heavy machinery generally was freighted by wagon to either Glenbrook or Tahoe City, then by steamer to Overton. A similar road was built up and over the ridge west of Incline Village to Hot Springs, then over the hill to Truckee. Wagon roads were built from Washoe Valley over the mountain to bring in supplies. Transportation was a challenge that required some inventiveness. By the time full operations were underway in early 1881, over 250 loggers, swampers, millmen, woodcutters, camp tenders and mechanics were at work at the mill. The Ponderosa and Jeffrey pine trees werent as large as those found further west in the Sierra Nevada, but these tight-grained Carson Range pines made strong timbers to hold up the earth in the ever deepening stopes and shafts under Virginia City.The sawmills circular saws first filed into logs that were cut in the hills above Crystal Bay, and the lumber was used to build the mill buildings, bunkhouses, cookhouse and other needed facilities on what is now Mill Creek. ![]() Crystal Bay was actually named, not for its clear waters, but for George Crystal, who filed the first timber claims in the area in the early 1860s.The SNW&L had bought and leased over 10,000 acres of timberlands along the eastern mountains of Lake Tahoe. Overton who was in charge of building the sawmill and would run all of the operations. They referred to it as Overton Bay, because it was J.B. Most of the wood was cut from the tops of trees cut for lumber, but young trees of every size were also taken.īy November of 1879 they had finished construction on a new larger mill at Crystal Bay on the northeast shore of Lake Tahoe. In 1878 Hobart & Marlette incorporated into the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lumber Company.The Comstock Lode had hundreds of steam engines that were hungry for four foot split pine and fir, using in excess of 100,000 cords a year. In addition to lumber, thousands of cords of firewood were cut for use in the Comstock Lode. From the top of the Washoe Valley, the water went into 7 miles of 12-inch wrought iron pipe, down 1,720 feet and back up again in an inverted siphon.The construction boss of this work was John Bear Overton, who would later, as superintendent, become the absolute final word in the operation for Hobart & Marlette, while still running the Water Company in Virginia City.In 1876 Hobart & Marlette moved their mill, following the ever moving front of falling trees further up into Little Valley. This sawmill cut mining timbers and shipped them to Virginia City by means of a two-and-a- half-mile-V flume that landed the timbers rough lumber on the Virginia & Truckee Railroad.The partners were investors in and provided a lot of the lumber and timbers being used to build the Virginia & Gold Hill Water Company flume which took water from above Incline Village and Marlette Lake through the Carson Range by tunnel. The lumber company he founded ended up lasting longer than the silver boom did.In 1873 Nevada State Controller Walter Hobart and former Nevada and California Surveyor General Seneca Sam Marlette were operating a small sawmill in Little Valley, a secluded valley between Incline Village and the Washoe Valley. "The ride will remain closed for a full inspection.Photo courtesy Truckee Donner Historical SocietyĮditors note This is the first in a four-part series on the Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Company.Walter Hobart was a Nevada mining man who saw lumber production as a sideline to the Comstock Lode silver mining. ![]() "The safety of our guests and employees is our highest priority," the spokesperson said. Their conditions were not immediately provided. The attraction is one of the first to open at the Jackson Township amusement park in the summer of 1974.įirst aid staff at Six Flags assisted several guests at the scene on Sunday and two were taken to a local hospital for evaluation. The Saw Mill Log Flume ride takes guests four stories high before plunging them down a steep decline into free-flowing water. West Philly shooting leaves 2 dead, including teenager.Bike lane improvement project begins across Philly.Philly man wanted for fatally stabbing girlfriend at Atlantic City casino, police say. ![]() One of the boats tipped at an angle, but did not fully turn upside down. when the boat ride "did not complete its cycle," a spokesperson said. Two people who were riding the popular log flume ride at Six Flags Great Adventure when it malfunctioned Sunday were taken to a hospital, an official at the New Jersey theme park said.
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