The article details the influences of the bustling lumber industry on Boulder Creek including the flume, the railroad expansion, its many saloons and the response of th temperance movement, and the reason Lorenzo was developed first. The building of the flume detracted any thought about laying out a townsite so James Perry toke the advantage and created a town further south called Lorenzo. The flume was never profitable and the railroad replaced it. And Lorenzo burned down in a series of fires and the railroad shifted operations to Boulder Creek.