Description: The West Branch Mill of the Sierra Lumber Company, California, Paperback 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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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781609497415
Book Title: West Branch Mill of the Sierra Lumber Company: Early Logging in Northeastern California
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Andy Mark
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Agriculture / Forestry, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / General
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Technology & Engineering, History
Item Weight: 8.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
