Instead he proposed building the world’s longest flume. At first he planned to build a railroad down Kings River Canyon from the mill to the railhead, but he abandoned the idea when he saw how steep and treacherous the chasm was. Smith decided there had to be a better way. By 1888 Smith and Moore had spent more than $100,000 amassing more than 30,000 acres on the south side of the Kings River Canyon gorge. Stagecoach loads of men were hauled into the mountains to walk their claims and then immediately sell them for prices ranging from $100 to $600 (on top of the $2.50 per acre), with ample quantities of liquor thrown in. And it grows straight upward with little taper, making the lumber yield from each tree very high. With few branches, the tree rarely forms knots or imperfections. Redwood makes excellent lumber, being resistant to fire, insects, and rot. Smith and Moore, aware of the vast stands of pine, cedar, and redwood that blanketed the western slopes of the high Sierra, began accumulating timberland. He owned mines and ranches and lived in a sumptuous mansion in San Francisco.Īccording to the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, anyone could claim up to 160 acres of timberland in Washington, Oregon, California, or Nevada if he paid $2.50 per acre and swore that he had personally inspected the land. While Smith was a true lumberman, managing and building each new operation, Moore, the majority owner, was a venture capitalist. Moore, prominent San Franciscans who ran sawmills in California and Washington, began buying up property there in the 1880s. The high Sierra Nevada was a wilderness when Hiram C. It also supplied the money and water that turned California’s San Joaquin Valley into a very successful farming area. Built in only 13 months, it was in use from 1890 to 1923 and eventually grew to be the longest in the world, contending with bankruptcy, fire, and death while it permitted the harvest of the world’s largest trees. Most majestic of all the flumes was the Kings River flume in Fresno County, California.
Before today’s heavy-duty trucks and roads, loggers could move this lumber out of the remote backcountry only by constructing gigantic aqueducts designed to float it miles down the sides of mountains. Lumbermen built flumes of epic proportions, using water and gravity to bring some of the nation’s best wood to market. This silly but exhilarating amusement ride once served a greater purpose than mere entertainment. Climbing into long, narrow boats molded and colored to resemble hollowed-out logs, Americans by the thousand ride these liquid roller coasters every summer, letting the splashing water soak them as they fly downward. Send us feedback about these examples.“RIDE THE LOG FLUME!” CRIES THE AMUSEMENT- park advertisement. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'flume.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 An exact model of the Breakwaters project had been built inside a long, narrow flume, at a one-to-twenty scale: each rock and concrete structure was painted a different color, so that observers would be able to easily identify which were unmoored during the simulation, and which held strong. Verity Spott Anne Boyer, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023 Eleven rotates, of our tiniest days, the palaces sway and the huge collapse of the furnace, the arcane flume, the water tight doors icumen to the stoop of a sea. 2023 The park announced Wednesday that the attraction will close on May 31, giving park-goers just over a month to get in their last log flume ride. 2023 From family-friendly trains to flume rides, hair-raising roller coasters, parades and stage shows and immersive restaurants, there’s something for every age group. John Sharp | al, Opened in 1989, the iconic log flume ride is officially closing on May 31 and will be transformed into Tiana's Bayou Adventure inspired by Disney's Princess and the Frog. Dixson, Scientific American, 1 June 2017 Some water rides are also excluded, including lazy rivers and log flume rides. 2023 The flume tank had two nozzles that each pushed a mild plume of water from front to back. Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. Recent Examples on the Web Splash Mountain, the log flume thrill ride themed around the dated and racist 1946 film, will close next month for a remodel.
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