Sandy Gulch Mill (More Photos)

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Sandy Gulch Mill (More Photos)

These photos came to the Editor’s attention when a gentleman from the West Point area, Pat McGreevy, brought them to the museum on a CD. As it turns out, museum stalwart and daughter of Howard Blagen, Pat Blagen Bradley, had had a collection of photos that may have been in her dad’s stuff scanned professionally 10 years or so ago, and had gotten them to the Wilseyville people, and then forgotten about them. Our very great thanks to Pat M. for getting them back to us as they certainly should be on this site.

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Construction at the Sandy Gulch Mill Not sure what part of the mill is being built

Aerial view with sites numbered Unfortunately, we don’t have the key to tell us what the numbers refer to.

Vertical aerial view of Sandy Gulch operation

Howard Blagen at desk

Lawrence Wilsey and Howard Blagen

Duveen Meyers, probably the office manager

Howard Blagen and ??

Paul LaTeer in the middle. Lady to our right of him was Duveen Meyers and on our left of him was Opal Swanson

Opal Swanson, Paul LaTeer, and Duveen Meyers

Howard Blagen (same picture I think, little better quality)

Preparing the Sandy Gulch site

Dragline building road. The mill is already up and running, you can see the drying stacks in the background

The mill from the hill

The mill from the pond

Mill Pond at Sandy Gulch

Log ready to go down Brow Log to Pond

Dumping off the Brow Log

Splitting a log too big for the mill. Usually this was done with black powder or dynamite because it was so much quicker

D8 with Hyster arch. Howard Blagen enjoying the feel of the new equipment. Editor would guess that Howard would like to be running it.

Company pride in new equipment

Heel boom loader

See how the loader operator uses the “heel” to anchor one end of the log while the cables lift it without having to be in the center of the log.

We’ve been told more than a few times that Stockton Box did all the “bringing the logs to the mill” job. This photo shows that isn’t true, or at least not totally true. Did Stockton Box do all the logging, but Associated did their own hauling?

These are pretty much the guys who got things done. Names appear on the same photo below.

Fellow in back row, farthest left must be J.D. Conger, not Donger. There is a wonderful story elsewhere on this web site about J.D. and his beloved wife.