Document Type
Image
Preview
Creation Date
1900
Description
Mining required large supplies of timber for props, buildings and various mining facilities. The short-lived Skookum Copper Mining Co. built its own sawmill, to avoid hauling lumber long distances over rough or non-existent roads.Title on original hand colored photograph postcard: "Saw Mill of the Skookum Copper Mining Co., near Roslyn, Wash."
Recommended Citation
"Skookum Copper Mining Co. Sawmill, near Roslyn" (1900). Ellensburg History Photographs. 289.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/ellensburg_history/289
Source
Local History Collection Photographs, Ellensburg Public Library
Format
image/jpg
Keywords
Kittitas County (Wash.) - Buildings, Historic, Historic buildings - Washington (State) - Kittitas County, Skookum Copper Mining Co. Roslyn, Wash.), Mines and mining -- Washington (State) -- Roslyn