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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ...
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913. Great Plains and desert. 1881
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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oon. The mill is situated in the lower belt of tim-ber, and there are between 400 and 500 men atwork. This number includes those engaged incutting trees, hauling logs, and sawing the lum-ber. How the heavy machinery of the mills,and the engines which work them were broughtfrom the city up the mountains and placed inposition, is another mystery which I have nottried to investigate. The amount of lumber turned out by theowner of these mills, the upper and the lower, theformer being two and one-half miles farther upthe mountain, is marvellous. In five minutes time, a log from two to fourfeet in diameter is reduced to lumber, planks,scantling, boards, and square timber, perhaps allfrom the same log, for it is cut in the most ad-vantageous manner. Sometimes one log willgive three or four different kinds of lumber.The lower mill is kept running night and day, andhas a capacity of .50,000 feet jier day cf smallstuff, and of 70,000 feet when working on largetimber. TME ^m€IFI€ F@W^Mr. 221
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SUMMITS OF THE SIERRAS. BV TflOMAS MORAN. 222 Wmm ^^€IFI€ FQWmiBF. The upper mill has less than half the capacity,being smaller, and being worked only 12 hoursa day. Tlie Flume.—The flume is a wonderfulpiece of engineering work. It is built whollyupon trestle-work, and stringers; there is not acut in the whole distance, and the grade is soheavy that there is little danger of a jam. The trestle-work is very substantial, and is un-doubtedly strong enough to support a narrowgauge railway. It runs over foot hills, throughvalleys, around mountains, and across canons. In one place it is 70 feet high. The highestpoint of the flume from the plain, is 3,700 feet,and on an air line, from beginning to end, thedistance is eight miles, the course thus takingup seven miles in twists and turns. The trestle-work is thoroughly braced, longitudinally andacross, so that no break can extend farther than asingle box, which is 16 feet; all the main sup-ports, which are five feet apart, are firmly set

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