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Map shows the early settlements around E Burra: d Inlet in 1871. In these days Moodyville was a

teetotal town; thirsty loggers had to hike the 20 mile round-trip to New Westminster for a
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square flume and stored in a
reservoir on the hillside. The
mill’s capacity was 40,000
feet of lumber a day. It had
two centre-discharge water-
wheels driven by a water
head of an estimated fifty.
horsepower, two
saws, a 22” planing machine
and other equipment. The
logs were -cut on the
pre-emptions adjoining and
hauled by oxen to the mill,-

By Art Davies

Sewell Prescott Moody This mill was operated
was not the first to realize the strictly on water power
potential of the mountainous available from Lynn Creek,.
timberlands clothing the two and one-quarter miles to
North: Shore mountains. _the east. The water. was —
. carried from the creek to the

Logs were cut and planed
mill by-an open ditch and a

Two entrepreneurs named

ellicks and Baker pointed the
way in 1862. These partners
salvaged the power plant
from a wrecked steamer and
-set up: a tiny mill on the:
~ North: Shore. When, finally,
~. the laboring lumbermen got |
: going, they cut.an impressive -
10,000 feet of lumber in their
first: day of operation. This
was also to be their last day’~
of operation as their creditors |
foreclosed!

Although few realized it at
the time, Hicks and Baker
‘had attempted to harvest on
‘one of the richest stands.of
timber. in the world: a
seemingly limitless jungle
of fir, cedar, hemlock and
pine which would sire a
metropolis.

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‘where Hicks and Baker had open for lunch &’ dinnér. Mon — Fri. 11:30 a.m. - 2: 00 p.m.

failed, ‘and = secured pre- Sat. 4p.m.- 2 a.m.Sun 4-11 p.m.
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began construction. there of

the Pioneer Sawmills which

June, 1863, at the foot of . ". for reservations or free delivery,
what is now St. Patricks 1746 Marine Dr., W.V. call: 926-7091 | |

‘north shore of the Inlet. They
.was completed by the end of PIZZA & STEAK HOUSE
Avenue, —

- The same year, Thomas
‘W. Graham and Co.,

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SHIP OF THE. SEVEN SEAS.
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Our bulfet, has over, a variotiog | ‘ol: trosh:
delicious “soatood.‘dishes;: the’ majority, of
which arg, caught. An. local. wators. vet
To name-a few, oysters on the ;
half shell, mouthwatering: :.!

dolicious rainbow trout, de-:
lighttul curried shrimps and.
curried prawns. Woe also sOrvo -
\ the tandlubber dalicious tandor, «“),
steaks and a chicken specialty. ” os

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Mooyed at the le
foot af Lonsdale |

circular _

at the mill and Shipped to -

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prawns, ‘Alaska King ° Crab, “ an

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markets on Vancouver Island | Join us fora cup of good cheer, fine food,
and New Westminster. Their
first timber cargo was loaded and songs
on the sternwheeler “The . by Sika PAUP AY
Flying Dute ”? and arr- i
ived in New Westminster in °
August 1863.

Pioneer Mills soon ran into
difficulty competing with
‘more centrally located mills.
Abovt this time the Gold
Rush boom subsided, and a
‘general depression in the
lumber trade followed. The.
partners Graham and Scrim- ~
geour soon found themselves
in difficulty ané after five

months of operation the mill
and its stose of 1,000,000
board feet of logs were put
on the auction block.

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