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After an economic downturn in 1907 shut down the operation, the company was sold in 1911 to become the C.D. Danaher Pine Co. and operated until 1915 when C.D. Danaher left and the operation was managed by his brother Robert. Once again in 1915 to R.E. Danaher Co. In 1917 John Blodgett, a well known Michigan lumberman acquired timber holdings on the Georgetown divide. In 1918 he merged the timber holdings with the Danaher property to create the Michigan-California Lumber Company. The new company held nearly 60,000 acres of timberland and spread miles of railroad lines throughout the forest. | After an economic downturn in 1907 shut down the operation, the company was sold in 1911 to become the C.D. Danaher Pine Co. and operated until 1915 when C.D. Danaher left and the operation was managed by his brother Robert. Once again in 1915 to R.E. Danaher Co. In 1917 John Blodgett, a well known Michigan lumberman acquired timber holdings on the Georgetown divide. In 1918 he merged the timber holdings with the Danaher property to create the Michigan-California Lumber Company. The new company held nearly 60,000 acres of timberland and spread miles of railroad lines throughout the forest. | ||
The cable was rebuilt in 1929 but fires swept away South Cable on March 15, 1949 forcing the railroad to construct a suitable roadway for trucking to replace the cable. The company decided not to rebuild the cableway and the rough cut mill moved to Camino, The remaining nine miles of track between Camino South Cable were pulled up by the end of 1949. By 1951, all the rail lines were torn up and scrapped. In later years rail was relaid from Camino towards South Cable. For a time it was operated as the tourist railroad, Camino, Cable & Northern, before once again having the rails taken up. | The cable was rebuilt in 1929 but fires swept away South Cable on March 15, 1949 forcing the railroad to construct a suitable roadway for trucking to replace the cable. The company decided not to rebuild the cableway and the rough cut mill moved to Camino, The remaining nine miles of track between Camino South Cable were pulled up by the end of 1949. By 1951, all the rail lines were torn up and scrapped. In later years rail was relaid from Camino towards South Cable. For a time it was operated as the tourist railroad, [[Camino, Cable & Northern]], before once again having the rails taken up. | ||
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California / Logging Railroads / Michigan - California Lumber Company
History
The American River Land and Lumber Co. began logging the Georgetown Divide in 1890. Logs were delivered to the river via a chute and thus floated to a mill in Folsom, California. As logging progressed further back into the woods, a narrow gauge railroad was built to bring the logs to the chute. The first locomotive arrived in 1892.
In 1900, the entire operation changed hands to the El Dorado Lumber Co. and the rough cut mill was relocated to Pino Grande. 1901 saw the building of a cableway to haul the lumber from the north side of the canyon to the south side where the narrow gauge continued its journey to a new planing mill in Camino. The finished product was taken by the standard gauge Camino Placerville & Lake Tahoe Railroad, also owned my Mich-Cal Lmbr, to a connection with the Southern Pacific at Placerville.
After an economic downturn in 1907 shut down the operation, the company was sold in 1911 to become the C.D. Danaher Pine Co. and operated until 1915 when C.D. Danaher left and the operation was managed by his brother Robert. Once again in 1915 to R.E. Danaher Co. In 1917 John Blodgett, a well known Michigan lumberman acquired timber holdings on the Georgetown divide. In 1918 he merged the timber holdings with the Danaher property to create the Michigan-California Lumber Company. The new company held nearly 60,000 acres of timberland and spread miles of railroad lines throughout the forest.
The cable was rebuilt in 1929 but fires swept away South Cable on March 15, 1949 forcing the railroad to construct a suitable roadway for trucking to replace the cable. The company decided not to rebuild the cableway and the rough cut mill moved to Camino, The remaining nine miles of track between Camino South Cable were pulled up by the end of 1949. By 1951, all the rail lines were torn up and scrapped. In later years rail was relaid from Camino towards South Cable. For a time it was operated as the tourist railroad, Camino, Cable & Northern, before once again having the rails taken up.
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