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    The Madera Sugar Pine Company was a United States lumber company that operated in the Sierra Nevada region of California during the late 19th and early...
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  • Sugar Pine is an unincorporated community in Madera County, California. It is located 5 miles (8 km) north of Yosemite Forks, at an elevation of 4236...
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    expenses, it never turned a profit. The Sugar Pine Lumber Company was incorporated in July 1921 by Madera Sugar Pine Company officials Arthur Fleming, John Hemphill...
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    of the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Company. Service began with the purchase of three-truck Shay locomotive No. 10 from the West Side Lumber Company railway...
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    The Yosemite Lumber Company was an early 20th century Sugar Pine and White Pine logging operation in the Sierra Nevada. The company built the steepest...
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  • Yosemite Lumber Company ceases operations. Bass Lake begins annual Independence Day fireworks display. 1931 The Madera Sugar Pine Company ceases operations...
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  • Lumber Company (Greenwood Railroad) Lake Valley Narrow Gauge Railroad Little River Redwood Company Long-Bell Lumber Company Madera Sugar Pine Company Mammoth...
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    in Fish Camp were in support of the logging industry. The Madera Sugar Pine Logging Company heavily exploited the surrounding forests to meet the growing...
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    Match Company Feather River Railway Fort Bragg and Southeastern Railroad Goodyear Redwood Company Lake Valley Railroad Madera Sugar Pine Company McCloud...
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  • success of the Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company, along with the neighboring Madera Sugar Pine Company, demonstrated the effectiveness of v-flumes...
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    Madera Sugar Pine Company loggers in caulked boots in the Sierra Nevada (1927)...
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  • Corlieu Falls (category Rivers of Madera County, California)
    stretches from Sugar Pine to Cedar Valley. The trail follows the historical course of a lumber flume used by the Madera Sugar Pine Company for transporting...
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    in the Mountains: The Life and Times of Madera Sugar Pine. Trans-Anglo Books. p. 11. ISBN 0-87046-017-X. "Madera, California Köppen Climate Classification...
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    Chinese laborers played a key role in constructing the Madera Flume and working in the Sugar Pine lumber yards. However, their numbers declined after restrictive...
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    the lake's southern shore, served as a central point for the Sugar Pine Lumber Company. On the lake's south shore, the U.S. Forest Service has developed...
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    Oakhurst, California (category Census-designated places in Madera County, California)
    of stagecoach travel to Yosemite, and the 1931 closure of the Madera Sugar Pine Company. The All-Year Highway, opened in 1926, rerouted Yosemite bound...
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  • The Michigan-California Lumber Company was an early 20th-century Ponderosa and Sugar pine logging operation in the Sierra Nevada. It is best remembered...
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    Johnston, Hank (1968). Thunder in the Mountains: The Life and Times of Madera Sugar Pine (Second Edition (Revised) ed.). Costa Mesa, Calif.: Stauffer Publishing...
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    Increase 50%. Madera and Fresno Companies Plan to Operate on Big Scale. New Rails and Flume Building Demand for Sugar Pine and Yellow Pine, Causes Rush...
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    United States Hume-Bennett Lumber Company Madera Sugar Pine Company Sugar Pine Lumber Company Yosemite Lumber Company Beesley, David (1996). "Reconstructing...
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    Shuteye Peak (category Mountains of Madera County, California)
    agreement with the Fresno Flume and Lumber Company, the Madera Sugar Pine Company, the San Joaquin Light and Power Company, and the federal government.: 52  By...
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    Nelder Grove (category Protected areas of Madera County, California)
    logged, and the last sequoia in Nelder Grove was cut. In 1928, the Madera Sugar Pine Company transferred the land to the United States Forest Service, which...
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    the California Institute of Technology, Sugar Pine Lumber Company, and the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Company; a director of Southern California Edison;...
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  • Wishon, California (category Former settlements in Madera County, California)
    Railroad during the 1920s, an official common carrier owned by the Sugar Pine Lumber Company. This 53-mile railroad extended from the western end of the Bass...
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  • North Fork, California (category Census-designated places in Madera County, California)
    commercial logging in eastern Madera County came to a sudden stop, leading to the end of logging railroads. The Sugar Pine Lumber Company, operating in the mountains...
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    Johnston, Hank (1968). Thunder in the Mountains: The Life and Times of Madera Sugar Pine. Trans-Anglo Books. p. 11. ISBN 0-87046-017-X. Oakleaf pp.10,12&17...
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    v. United States 495 (1923) Butler none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Madera Sugar Pine Company v. Industrial Accident Commission of California 499 (1923) Sanford...
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    Contract Between Company And Power Concern Is Announced by Secretary of Interior Ickes For Distribution Which Will Replace Steam Plants". Madera Tribune. Vol...
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    Yosemite National Park (category Parks in Madera County, California)
    in Tuolumne and Mariposa, extending north and east to Mono and south to Madera. Designated a World Heritage Site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized...
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    Minarets and Western Railway (category Railway companies established in 1921)
    to 1933. The railway was owned by the Sugar Pine Lumber Company and was built the same year the lumber company was incorporated so that it could haul...
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