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D. L. Bliss signed check

Currency:USD Category:Western Americana Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:50.00 - 75.00 USD
D. L. Bliss signed check
1880 Agency of the Bank of California Check. Imprinted with Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company. Signed by Bliss and endorsed by Rigby. The Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company was organized in 1873 with Duane L. Bliss as president and general manger and H.M. Yerington, D.O. Mills and J.A. Rigby as stockholders. It was probably the largest and most extensive lumber operation serving the mines of the Comstock. At its peak of operation, holdings included 50,000 acres of timber at Lake Tahoe and Lake Valley, three mills at Glenbrook, two steamers two logging railroads, logging camps, and a narrow gauge railroad. It operated several flumes to transport lumber down the mountain to the railroad depots and also maintained a box factory in Carson City. In the early years, the center of activity was located around Glenbrook, Spooner Summit, and on Clear Creek Canyon, site of the original flume of the Summit Flume Company which was absorbed by the Carson and Tahoe lumber and Fluming Company. The company eventually acquired the property of the Hobart Estate, the Nevada Lumber Co. and the Sierra Nevada Wood and Flume Company as it gradually accumulated timber lands around the Lake Tahoe region. Its major land holdings were located in El Dorado and Placer Counties, California, and in Douglas, Ormsby, and Washoe Counties, Nevada. The Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company was cutting timber until logging operations ceased around 1896.

State: NV
City: Virginia City
County: Storey

Date: 1880
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