It was also in 1875 that George raised the $200 necessary to get his land patent and add it to the vacant section below what land he already had. He now had 320 acres of land and had built a 16×22 log house, a corral, sheds, and hen-house “on the best building place, at the...
Don’t forget the sunshiny skies and clean desert air, plus plenty of lumber yards for me to amble around in and nostalgically sniff up the ambience of the sharp pine and fir resins wafting about. The Mexican food is good even if it is not Tex-Mex which, of course, is the absolute ...
It’s becoming a bit of a lumber room. I keep changing book covers but don’t like to throw away the old ones. It needs a tidy up. Reply barb mann, artist, writer , world fighter for justice, and visionary says: October 30, 2016 at 6:08 am Hi Nice to read the banter betwee...
“Old Growth” Coastal Redwoods remained untouched by the Lumberman’s ax and saw. These trees, located only a few miles from San Francisco, had never been logged due to the difficult accessibility of the canyon. There were other areas, farther away, that provided a more lumberman friendly ...
Davenport’s restaurant was so successful, that Spokane’s founding fathers approached him to build a hotel to accommodate the business meetings of salespeople coming from Montana, Idaho, north and west, selling silver and gems from the Idaho mines, fish, seafood, lumber. They needed a hotel ...
Ryan lumber yards and ‘Weekly Progress’ were substantial business institutions. Chas. Godbey conducted a bank – The ‘First National’ where the Ford motor company now stands and the District courthouse was located near the present location of the Cobb bath house. “There were no substantial ...
You travel along the historic right-of-way of the Madera Sugar Pine Railroad where mighty lumberjacks felled the timber and flumes carried the lumber to the town of Madera. The conductor tells of the history of the line, the trees, and the wildlife native to the area. The line operates ...
This display of industry brought him to the end of his ten months owning $800 worth of horses and other property. In addition to his work, he bought a land claim on the prairie fourteen miles away and built a twelve by fourteen lumber cabin on it. This he sold for a hundred-dollar ...
Mendocino was the first of several north coast towns founded between 1851 and 1920 – the heyday of the lumber industry. German immigrant William Kasten was bound for gold country in 1850 when his ship ran aground off Mendocino coast; in 1851 he filed papers claiming the land. San Francisco...
While local councils tend to deal with trees that have fallen on public land, the average homeowner usually has to tackle fallen trees by themselves. But, the average homeowner may not have the tools or physical ability to remove larger fallen branches from their yards, fences or rooves. This...