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Sierra Pacific announces closure of Susanville Mill
By Shayla Ashmore
News Editor
Sierra Pacific Industries announced the permanent closure of its Susanville sawmill last week due to a serious log shortage. Sierra Pacific spokesman Ed Bond said all employees would get 60-days notice before the mill is closed and dismantled sometime during the first three months of 2004. Employees will receive the notice once an exact closure date is set.
Bond said current employees will be asked if they would like to transfer to another Sierra Pacific facility, and if so where.
"And we will attempt to accommodate those transfers," he said on Tuesday, Dec. 16.
Bond said George Emmerson, SPI's vice president of sales and operations, came to Susanville personally to announce the closure to mill crews.
"This is one of the most difficult things the company has had to do," Bond said of the meeting with employees.
"Someone might consider this as a terrible time - before the holidays - to be telling people this," Bond said. "Well, there's no good time to tell people this and we felt that if this is going to happen, we'd already made the decision that they should know so they can plan accordingly. It wouldn't be right if someone went out and a bought a new car or signed up for a new home or something with the prospect of not having a job there."
SPI officials only made the decision to close the mill on Thursday, Dec. 11 and employees were notified as soon as possible, he said.
"We wanted to minimize the heartache of speculation and uncertainty for the families and move forward," an SPI press release issued late on Monday, Dec. 15 quoted Bond.
Company officials cited the loss of Forest Service timber, unfair competition from states with fewer environmental regulations and foreign imports as the reasons behind the difficult decision. In the press release, SPI pointed out timber sales from the Lassen National Forest fell from 108 million board feet in 1990 to 17.9 million in 2002.
"That mill has been designed to cut higher grade logs," Bond said. "And even with the Healthy Forest initiative and the Quincy Library Group programs, why, the types of logs that would be coming off of those from the Forest Service would not be the higher grade logs that would be necessary for that mill."
Found this photo being used here:
Catalog #: Iraq_00990
Collection: Edwin Newman Collection
Album #: AL38
Page #: 4
Picture on Page: 2
Description : Mill stream
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
This old mill appears to have just grown out of the rock along the gorge beneath the waterfall of the Vermillion River in Hastings, Minnesota.
I'll be glueing most of of the parts together, per the plans, but will likely back them up with some screws. Here, I'm installing the braces on the bedway.
In 1782 this cotton spinning mill was believed to be the first machine powered factory in the world.
A century later the building was bought by Paton. They ran a shoelace factory.
By 1990 the factory was left abandoned. Its future is still unsecure.
when: march 2009
with: Bartje
nrhp # 82004523- Established 1860 The mill was originally a water-powered gristmill and then a steam powered burr mill. It was sold by Charles E. Barnard to Major T.C. Jordan in 1874. Jordan sold the mill to Dr. J. J. Hannah in 1943 where it became a health spa with mineral water. Dr. Hannah added a wing to the building. In 1949 it became a hospital and clinic with the arrival of Dr. Roger Marks. The building was sold to Dr. Marks and Dr. Robert English in 1955, and it became the Marks-English Hospital and Clinic. The building was sold to Richard H. Moore in 1979. Mr. Moore gifted the mill to the Somervell History Foundation in 2005.
from Wikipedia
Fisher mill on Chiligo creek, Fisher Mills, a former hamlet in Hespeler, in the city of Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario. The original grist mill and dam were built by Jacob Fisher in 1843. In 1871 the mill was the largest in Waterloo township. In 1888 the mill was dismantled and moved to Birtle Manitoba, Joseph Shantz built a new mill on the old foundation here in1890. His son A. J. Shantz became the owner in 1932. A. J. Shantz converted the mill from water power to diesel and operated it as a feed mill. He sold it to Howard Cressman in 1970 when he retired.The mill operations closed in 1990. A. J. Shantz had also owned the Blackbridge mill for 22 years. The dam was demolished in 2000 but the mill building still remains as a private residence. It has recently been sold and now also caters to meetings, banquets and event planning including gardens for pictures much like the Klages mill in Chesley. Fisher is a common name for historic mills in Ontario:- There are the three Fisher mills in Paisley, the Fisher Mill ruins in Dundas and this one in Cambridge.
The red-painted Starr’s Mill, in Fayette County just a mile south of Peachtree City, is one of the most historic, picturesque and famously photographed sites in the state. The Mill sits along what was once a portion of the old McIntosh Trail, a famous Indian trail that ran from the Ocmulgee River on the eastern border of Butts County in Georgia onward to Alabama and beyond.
Starr’s Mill has been featured in numerous magazines as well as the movie "Sweet Home Alabama” starring Reese Witherspoon. It also is the site of one of Fayette County’s most bizarre and unsolved murders mysteries. On November 1, 1966, George Lynch, who was the mill caretaker for many years, was found unconscious at the mill. He died the next day. An autopsy determined he had suffered a blow to the head. Oddly enough, nine years earlier in 1957 on the very same day, Lynch’s wife, Fannie Lou Lynch, had died at Starr’s Mill when a car hit her as she walked across the bridge.
You can visit Starr’s Mill any day of the year. There are picnic tables and lights. Fishing is permitted in the mill pond with a Georgia license.
Below is an essay about Starr’s Mill from The Flint River: A Recreational Guidebook to the Flint River and Environs by Fred Brown and Sherri Smith Brown.
At one time numerous gristmills for grinding grain operated along the Flint River and its tributaries above the Fall Line. These were some of the region’s earliest industry. Starr’s Mill, located on Whitewater Creek in Fayette County, is one of the few gristmills that remain standing in the area.
In all, 16 property owners and three mills have been part of the Starr’s Mill history. Hananiah Gillcoat, the property’s second owner, constructed the first mill sometime between 1822 and 1827, just after the region was opened to settlement in 1821. Records indicate that the second millhouse to stand on the site burned to the ground around 1900, supposedly by arson. In 1907 the property’s 13th owner, William T. Glower, built the present wooden millhouse, on the same foundation, and the concrete dam.
Over the years, the mill, as well as the community that grew up around it, became known as Starr’s Mill, after 10th owner Hilliard M. Starr, who acquired the property in 1866. An 1870 census lists H. M. Starr Mill as having a maximum capacity of 100 bushels per day, $5,000 capital, two water wheels and 30 horsepower.
A cotton gin that served the community once stood at the opposite end of the dam. It was capable of ginning one bale of cotton per hour. Gates on each end of the dam opened and closed to regulate the necessary flow of water needed to drive the gin’s machinery, as well as the mill. The gin operated until the mid-1940s and was blown down by a wind storm in 1955. In 1959 Starr’s Mill ceased production and the remains of the old cotton gin were town down.
Like other mill ponds, the mill pond at Starr’s Mill was the center of community activities. Fishing, swimming, camping and family reunions took place around the pond. The April 15, 1904, Fayetteville News reported that Col. A. O. Blalock caught the biggest fish of the season, a 17 pound carp, at Starr’s pond, “a fine pull as the water was ten feet deep where he caught it.”
In 1991, Fayette County purchased the mill for use as a water system reservoir. You aren’t allowed to swim there anymore, but on a June day, fishermen trying their hand can still be seen fishing among the lily-padded tail waters of the Starr’s Mill dam.
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The mill was erected c1820 by millwright Robert Barnes of Great Yarmouth. It was disused in 1883 but later put back to work. The mill was worked by wind until 1956. Her owners, the Somerleyton Estate were keen to ensure that she was preserved. East Suffolk County Council agreed in principle that the mill should be preserved, and approached the Ministry of Works who agreed to pay half the cost of the restoration. Most of the rest of the money came from East Suffolk County Council and the Suffolk Preservation Society, with smaller amounts from other groups
2-4 Bond St. Abbotsford
Built 1863
Originally built as the Grosvenor Common School 1863, by 1891 the building was a boot factory. From 1895 until after 1930 it was Bates Cocoa Mills.
Heritage significance: Victorian Heritage Register: City of Yarra HO3
2003 was the last year for Moreton Sugar Mill in Nambour (Queensland, Australia).
I organised a weeks worth of activity in the area for the LocoShed group, culminating in a mill visit and a large group BBQ at River Depot, on the banks of the Maroochy River.
For more information on the former tramways of the area see:
Maroochy Shire Tramways SIG on Facebook.
Dating back to 1782 this is one of the oldest standing mills in Scotland. Last known production was shoe laces and insoles although now the building stands fire damaged and in a state of ruin
"Pearl Mills" , Oatmeal Mills, Coralville, Iowa. ca1900?
Source: State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City
Reproductions and permissions: www.iowaculture.gov/history/research/research-centers/cop...
Norton Marsh drainage mill was built in 1863 on the bank of the River Yare near Reedham Ferry. It was 4 storeys high. After it ceased operation, the cap, sails and machinery were removed and replaced by a conical iron roof that remained in place until 1988. As part of further restoration work this has been replaced by a Norfolk boat shaped cap with safety barrier and the scoop wheel was also reconstructed. It's now a holiday cottage.
Dam at a mill pond on Waba Creek, near White Lake, Ontario.
I feel fortunate to have access to this beautiful area. It is private property of a friend of a friend.
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Took this one on the way home from Whitley Bay yesterday morning...it's of the old R. Hood Haggies rope mill on Ropery Lane, Willington Quay. The buildings to the right are the Bridon mills which are in use today producing steel cables...there is a local legend that the old mill is haunted by 'Kitty The Mill Ghost'...Google it, it's a canny little tale...
Looking down Machine Shop D5, the section dedicated to Milling & Drilling. The large overhead crane stands beneath the roof ironwork.
Taken during what is likely to be the last open day hosted at Wabtec's Doncaster Works before closure comes in December 2026.
20-06-2026
Stoneywood Mill was founded in 1770, and the ownership has changed many times. The current owner is Arjowiggins who have their head offices based at Issy in Paris, and have three other paper mills in the UK at Dartford (founded 1588), Chartham (founded 1738) and Ivybridge (founded 1787), with many mills throughout France and Europe.
Recently in the local papers:
Workers at the north-east’s last surviving paper mill have been warned that nearly 50 jobs are under threat.
Stoneywood Mill bosses told staff yesterday that a consultation is to be launched to discuss the potential loss of 48 jobs at the Bucksburn plant.
Stoneywood will soon be the only remaining paper mill in the north-east. Production has been stopped at the Davidson Mill in Mugiemoss, the Donside Mill in Tillydrone and Culter Mill.
And International Paper’s Inverurie plant will be shut down at the end of this month [March 2009] after a 90-day consultation failed to find a buyer.
Another quick test fitting of the y-axis table. The sleeve bearings with the cut guide rods and braces in place. All seems to slide nice and smooth.
The blank for the x-z-axis is visible in the background.
The tolerances are pretty tight, here, and I'm worried I might get glue where it's not suppose to be!
Laudermilk Mill in Clarkesville, GA dates back to the 1800's. It's located on private property. The house on the left side of the creek (not in the photo) is currently for sale.
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Anchor Mills, Paisley, formerly the Domestic Finishing Mill of J & P Coats Ltd, thread makers, and now converted to apartments, stands beside the Hamills Waterfall, at the tidal limit of the River White Cart.
3rd January 2008.
Withywindle Mill 009 (4mm scale on 9mm gauge) pizza layout at Expo Narrow Gauge Swanley, Kent UK 27th October 2007.
The Mill Inn near Lancaster was our home for two days on our trip. The building was originally called Thurnham Mill and owned by the Canal Company. It sits beside the Glasson branch of the Lancaster Canal. The branch was completed in 1826, six years after the main canal in 1819