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NEIGHBORHOODS
Flumes bisected valley

THE flumes construct-
ed during the early
days of the lumber
industry on the North
Shore were an inge-
nious and awesome
undertaking.

The tion of the
huge system -- about ten
miles long, from above the
Lynn Headwaters down to
the sea near Moodvville —
was particularly noteworthy
considering that North Shore
pioncers had primitive tools
and equipment compared to
today’s technology.

The first flumes in Lynn
Valley were built by the H.H.
Spicer Shingle Company in
1895, when they were con-
tracted by the Moodyville
mill to cut shingle bolts.

Cedar shingle boits, about
56 inches long and the diam-
eter Of a man’s waist, were
stored in Hastings Pond untit
they were tipped inte the
flumes for their downward

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Flume: : constructed
of wooden planks, first box-
shaped, later V-shaped, about
three feet wide, supported on
X-shaped brackets, adjustable
for releasing log jams.

The flumes transported
shinglebolts and smaller
picces of wood down the
stcep mountainside to the
nearest lumber mill.

James and Robert McNair
bought out the Spicer opera-
tion in 1897 and built the
“upper” or first mill, just cast
of Centre Road (Mountain
Highway) berween present

Dempsey Road and Coleman
Surcer,

The MeNairs ¢
the Hastings Shin
Manutacturing Co. in 1903
to provide a readily available
source of lumber to build the
brackets, trestles and bridges
to support the fime sestem.
Vhev extended the orginal
Spicer tiumes north to the
Lynn Creek intake.

Born in 1905, Harold
Fromme, son of Julius
Fromme, recalls life in the

sof Lynn Valley and
his father’s lumber compan

According to Fromme, the
main branch of the Lynn
Valiey flumes started above
the Lyon Creek intake, ran
south past the upper mill, fol-
lowing present Institute Road
past the lower mill just west
of the intersection of present
Lynn Valley Road and
Mountain Highway. Passing
beside the pioncer lumber

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