Logan House Road, Glenbrook

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North of U.S. 50 on the east shore of Lake Tahoe within the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Douglas County, Nevada. The road segment extends for miles and lies at an elevation between and feet above sea level. U.S.G.S. minute Glenbrook, Nev., quadrangle Universal Transverse Mercator coordinates: north end-11.249830.4329930 south end-11.248380.4326300 Date(s) of Construction: Circa Engineer/Architect/Builder: Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company incorporated in in the State of Nevada, its primary stockholders being Duane L. Bliss, Yerington, D.o. Mills, and J.A. Rigby. Bliss was president and general manager and held the office until his death in Present Owner (S) United States Department of Agriculture, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit.

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The Logan House Road represents the transportation system developed to support the massive production achievement of the in association with the Comstock Mining era of Western Nevada. Report Prepared By: Dana E. Supernowicz, Zone Historian, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, 870 Emerald Bay Road, Suite 1, South Lake Tahoe, California Date: October LOGAN HOUSE ROAD (FS HAER NO. (Page 2)

Description

The Logan House Road is among a series of main haul logging roads developed and utilized for over 20 years by the Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company's woods operations. The road served to connect a system of secondary, and tertiary haul roads as well as skid trails and chutes with the major wood receiving and sending station at Spooner Summit. Like other main haul roads, the Logan House Road provided access to high elevation stands of pine and fir timber, which was either taken to Glenbrook where several sawmills were in operation, or taken as cordwood to the main Summit Camp flumes where the wood was flumed down to the Carson Valley and stored in "cordwood dumps".

The wood was gathered from the "dumps" and taken initially by wagon to the Comstock mines and later by the Virginia and Truckee Railroad.

Engineering Information

From a technological standpoint, the Logan House Road and others like it, were not monumental achievements in road building industrial technology, but rather they were examples of expedient and rapid technology employed to resource extraction. It is currently described as a typical, narrow, winding, cut and fill logging road of moderate grade. The road averages in width and is miles in length. III. HISTORICAL INFORMATION Discovery of the Comstock silver lode in set the stage for three decades of intensive logging in the east central Sierra Nevada.

The voracious appetite of the Virginia Range mines for timbers to shore up the shafts and cordwood to fuel the steam engines quickly devoured the available timber resources adjacent to the mining district and subsequently led to the exploitation of the timber on the slopes above Lake Tahoe. Initially, timber harvest within the Lake Tahoe Basin was of a small scale due to the difficulty of transportation of wood products both within the basin and to the Comstock mines. In a group of business men led by Bliss and including Yerington, D.O. Mills and J.A. Rigby incorporated the Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company in response to the increasing need for timber products.

The vast holdings acquired by this large company (at the height of logging in the in the the owned over acres of timberland) provided the economy of scale needed to efficiently harvest the timber resources within the basin. The quickly constructed a railroad to move lumber and cordwood from its mills at Glenbrook to Spooner Summit, flumes to transport products from Spooner Summit to the Carson Valley to the east, and a system of primary haul roads to move timber and cordwood from the woods to either Glenbrook or LOGAN HOUSE ROAD (FS HAER NO. (Page 3) Spooner Summit.

The Logan House Road is one of these primary haul roads and was used between approximately and The Logan House Road represents one of the greatest and most destructive episodes in the history of American logging and lumber manufacturing history. Nowhere in the United States was there such a large expenditure of capital and labor to supply the huge mines, mills, and smelters of the Comstock Lode. Virtually all the merchantable timber on the east shore of Lake Tahoe had been logged off by the The Logan House Road and other roads of its age and class contribute to our understanding of late nineteenth century logging and road building technology.

After the decline of the Comstock mines, the Logan House Road and other Comstock Era logging roads, with the exception of seasonal grazing, saw little use until the mid-twentieth century. Since the old logging roads have been used for off highway vehicle recreation. The Logan House Road was no exception, and for the past forty years has been maintained as a two track recreation road. IV. PROJECT INFORMATION This documentation is being prepared to fulfill the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Units (LTBMU) obligations under a Memorandum of Agreement between the LTBMU and the Nevada State Historic Preservation Officer dated July 7, The Principle Investigator was Dana Supernowiczs. The photographer was Rudy Gillard of Fortuna California.

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