American River Land & Lumber Company
California / Logging / American River Land & Lumber Co.
Reorganized as the El Dorado Lumber Company in 1900.
History
Railroad Iron 22 September 1891
Large Boat Shipped to Placerville 23 November 1891
Great Lumbering Enterprise 21 May 1892
More Logging Cars 7 February 1894
Must Wait For Water 23 May 1898
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 95, Number 175, 15 August 1898
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 96, Number 64, 24 October 1898
No Logs Were Burned 9 October 1899
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Equipment Rosters
| Photo | No. / Name | Whyte | Builder | Date | C/N | Cyl. | Drv. | Wt. | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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1 | 0-4-0T | H.K. Porter | May 1892 | 1389[1] | 9x14 | 27 in. | 29000[2] | Sold to West Side Flume & Lumber Company in 1900.[3] |
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2 H.P. Livermoore | 2 Truck Heisler | Stearns Mfg. Co. | 1898 | 1014 | 12.5x12 | 33 in. | 50000[3] | Later renumbered Mich-Cal #1 |
In addition to the locomotives listed above, local newspapers mention one or two additional locomotives en route top the ARL&LCo.
Sacramento Daily Union October 13, 1891.
FOLSOM'S LUMBER BOOM.
A Warehouse Going Up—Preparation for Next Season. The Folsom Telegraph states that work has been commenced on the erection of a large warehouse at the boom. It is 96 feet long by 21 feet wide, and will be used as a storage place for lumber. A large lodging-house, 20x30 feet, is being built for the accommodation of the workmen, and other buildings will be erected soon. In fact, preparations are being made for the liveliest kind of times at the boom, and before the first of the year the boom camp will be as lively a place as can be found around this part of the country. The openings at the foot of the big dam were closed the early part of the week in order to give sufficient slack water to drive in the rest of the ties that had remained further up the river. With the exception of a few, they were successfully floated down and caught in the boom, where they are being transformed into box lumber. This was the last drive of the season. The first storm will cause a sufficient rise in the river to float down the big logs that are distributed along the stream, and are in the vicinity of Chile Bar. Colonel Cummings has everything in readiness to drive the big timbers into the boom, when the work on lumber will begin. A locomotive for use on the timber railroad in the hills has been purchased and will be sent up the road next week.
Sacramento Daily Union November 28, 1892.
Boring Into the Sugar Pine.
George S. Cummings passed through town on Sunday, says the Placerviile Democrat, with a fourteen-ton railroad locomotive en route for Slab Creek, the terminus of the road which is being built by the American River Land and Lumber Company. Two large wagons had the locomotive divided between them. Mr. Cummings informed us that the company have another locomotive on the way to Auburn weighing twenty-five tons, which will also be hauled to Slab Creek.
Compiled by Andrew Brandon.