Nevada Historical Marker #221
Sand Harbor (1881 1896). History records Sand Harbor as playing an important role in the operations of the Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Company, one of three large companies supplying lumber and cordwood to the Comstock mines during the late 19th century. Walter Scott Hobart organized the company, and John Bear Overton was its general manager.The steamer “Niagara” towed log rafts from company land at the south end of Lake Tahoe to Sand Harbor. Here the logs were loaded on narrow-guage railway cars and taken two miles north to a sawmill on Mill Creek.Lumber and cordwood were started on the way to Virginia City via an incline tramway 4,000 feet long, and rising 1,400 feet up the mountainside where the material was transferred to water flumes and transported to Lakeview just north of Carson City.The tramway has been described as “The Great Incline of the Sierra Nevada”.
, Incline Village, NV, United States
Nevada Historical Marker #246
The Great Incline Of The Sierra Nevada. Located on the mountain above are the remnants of the “Great Incline of the Sierra Nevada”. Completed in 1880, this 4,000 foot long lift was constructed by the Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Company. A unique steam-powered cable railway carried cordwood and lumber up 1,800 feet to a v flume which carried the lumber down to Washoe Valley where it was loaded on wagons for use in the mines of the Comstock.Driven by an engine on the summit, 8,000 continuous feet of wire cable, wrapped around massive bull wheels pulled canted cars up a double tract tramline. This engineering feat would transport up to 300 cords a day from the mill located in what is now Mill Creek.
Tahoe Boulevard, Incline Village, NV, United States