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The West Branch Mill of the Sierra Lumber Company: Early Logging in Northeastern California

By Andy Mark

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2012
ISBN
9781614237297, 9781609497415
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3943215 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2022-11-04 15:22:52
History; Nonfiction; HIS036140

Description

In the late 1800s, the green gold of California's inland timber belt included the long-coned sugar pine and cinnamon-dusted ponderosa pine of Big Chico Creek Canyon. Tucked into the steep terrain of present-day Butte and Tehama Counties, the bustling West Branch Mill logging operations moved timber from the foothills east of Chico to waiting markets in Sacramento, Marysville and San Francisco. Local author Andy Mark recounts the lesser-known history of the West Branch Mill, recalling a time when resident physician Newton T. Enloe treated the daring men who faced daily peril, John Bidwell's bumpy and sometimes treacherous Humboldt Wagon Road was essentially the only route to town and Big Chico Creek was lined with an elevated flume running lumber and ambulance rafts.

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