Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
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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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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Shaver's lumber company depended upon a 60-mile-long flume to float cut lumber to the finishing mill and drying yards at Clovis. Portions of the flume traversed some spectacular scenery, such as at Rocky Point, on the flanks of Musick Mountain. Although abandoned as long ago as 1917, one section of flume still survives today. [Courtesy United States Forest Service, Shaver Lake.]
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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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This very rare photo shows a construction train on the S. J. & E. in the spring of 1912. By this time, the railroad had been built far into the rugged fastness of the High Sierra, and was nearing the future site of the town of Cascada (Big Creek). The exact location of the "head of steel" is uncertain. Pg. 26. [THIS PHOTO IS NOT AN EDISON PHOTO! DO NOT USE THIS NEG W/OUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM WILLIAM A. MYERS!]
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