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Shaver's lumber company depended upon a 60-mile-long flume to float cut lumber to the finishing mill and drying yards at Clovis
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The Fresno Flume and Lumber Company was the successor to C.B. Shaver's original Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company
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The Fresno Flume and Lumber Company was the successor to C.B. Shaver's original Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company. The company owned timber lands and a reservoir site around today's Shaver Lake, as well as near Clovis.
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This view of the old lumber mill at Shaver Lake was taken in October 1920
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This view of the old lumber mill at Shaver Lake was taken in October 1920. By this time, it was owned by the Edison Company, and was nearing the end of its operations. Prior to being dismantled to make way for the new Shaver Lake reservoir, the mill cut much of the form lumber used in the construction of Power House #8.
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The Shaver Lake Lumber Company's mill and pond
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The Shaver Lake Lumber Company's mill and pond. Edison bought this company in 1918 to gain a reservoir site to form today's larger Shaver Lake. Because of this purchase, the Company today owns a large tract of forest land around Shaver Lake. Pg. 112. [THIS IS NOT AN EDISON PHOTO! DO NOT USE THIS NEGATIVE FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT SPECIFIC PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM WILLIAM A. MYERS!]
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This rare photo shows the 1893 construction of the original timberfaced, rock-filled dam that impounded the millpond for C.B. Shaver's pioneer lumbering venture at Shaver Lake
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This rare photo shows the 1893 construction of the original timberfaced, rock-filled dam that impounded the millpond for C.B. Shaver's pioneer lumbering venture at Shaver Lake. Pg. 100. [Courtesy United States Forest Service, Shaver Lake.]
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