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The Loma Prieta Lumber Company's motorcar #3 pushing a flatcar loaded with supplies from Molino to the base of the Molino Timber Company's incline. The Molino Timber Company was incorporated in 1911 as a subcontracting company of the Loma Prieta…
Shipping station and receiving point for the Molino Timber Company at Molino (Junction), on a branch of the Southern Pacific. The Molino Timber Company was incorporated in 1911 as a subcontracting company of the Loma Prieta Lumber Company. Molino…
Chinese fishermen's village, located at what is now New Brighton State Beach. The Chinese shipped boxes of fresh fish from the Aptos and Capitola railroad stations.
Quarrying rocks. [Quarrying limestone was done by hand labor on the Cowell Ranch. Are these men Henry Cowell Lime and Cement company employees, mining limestone--or perhaps bituminous rock-- on the Cowell Ranch?]
Henry Cowell Lime and Cement Company ox teams hauling rocks [limestone? bituminous rock?] from the Cowell Ranch quarry.
Grovers Mill. In 1861, three Grover brothers plus three other men established a lumber company called Grover and Company. They purchased land about two miles north of Soquel on Bates Creek and the area came to be known as Grovers Gulch. The company…
Hubbard and Carmichael lumber mill at Porter Gulch.
Molino Timber Company's railroad in the Hinkley Basin area. The Molino Timber Company was incorporated in 1911 as a subcontracting company of the Loma Prieta Lumber Company. On the flatcar are two of the Molino Timber Company's directors, Al Williams…
Laurel bull donkey. A donkey was an engine used to hoist logs onto flatcars bound for the mill. Cables could be extended on spools run through the woods for a distance of up to several miles. In the Laurel area of the Santa Cruz Mountains.