Here is a photo gallery of the Yosemite Lumber Co- Merced Falls Operation- http://yosemitevalleyrailroad.gamestats.com/YLumber.Cards3.html The size of those drying yards is incredible- hard to imagine so much activity there- Carolyn -----Original Message----- From: Paulette Hilk <paulette@elite.net> To: CAMARIPO-L@rootsweb.com <CAMARIPO-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 8:59 AM Subject: [CAMARIPO] A little history >I found this article about Merced Falls and some information about the >incline. I sure wish I could have seen the incline when it was being >used. It is hard to believe that there was anything at Merced Falls. >Sure is not much left today. I like things about the YVRR I wish it >was still running It stopped just about the year I was born. I hope you >enjoy this article. > >Le Grand Advocate, Saturday, August 10, 1912 >BIG SAW MILL > >The first trainload of logs over the Yosemite Lumber Companys incline >railroad to El Portal came down to the saw mills at Merced Falls Monday, >negotiating the wonderful grades of the incline with ease. Fifteen cars >were in the train, each containing in the neighborhood of 6,000 feet of >timber. From that time on thirty-car trains will be brought down daily. >This incline is 8000 feet long, the top being 3000 feet higher than the >bottom. One grade on the incline system reaches 86 per cent. The rail >road is of standard gage. The mill at Merced Falls has a daily capacity >of 150, 000 feet of lumber. It is modern in equipment and is considered >one of the finest plants on the coast. > >The logging camps in the mountains will employ 350 men and the mill at >the falls 400 men. The lumber company is building a modern town about >the sawmill, installing electric lights, a water system and sewer. >Modern cottages for employees are under construction. Merced Falls a >village of fifty people a year ago, is now a town of 800. It is >twenty-five miles north-east of Merced city. > Livingston Chronicle > >-- >Thomas and Paulette Hilk >1725 Wildwood Ct. >Merced, CA. 95340 > >E-mail address: paulette@elite.net > > > >==== CAMARIPO Mailing List ==== >Mariposa County, California GenWeb Project Page: >http://www.cagenweb.com/mariposa/ > >