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AML Sawmill (It is fun to visually see the footprints early Mormons)
History in the Making Lumbering Booms As Road Built to Mountain Crest (This is the twenty-eighth of a series of articles about the history of San Bernardino county which are appearing Sundays in The Sun-Telegram simultaneously with the centennial of Mormon colonization of the San Bernardino valley.) By L. BURR BELDEN The pioneer industries of San Bernardino, the flour mill on Mill street, and Daniel Sexton's sawmill in Mill creek were soon to have company. In May of 1853 Amasa Lyman, Charles C. Rich and Theodore Thorpe started on a second sawmill in Mill creek canyon, farther upstream than Vignes and Sexton mill. Timber was better but a road had to be built.
In October good clear pine was delivered to Lyman from the new mill. The Lyman mill, commonly called the Mormon mill in later years, was located between the present Igo's store and Forest Home. It was wrecked by the 1862 flood but its ruins were visible at least a decade and a half later. Good quality lumber was all but unknown in Los Angeles and the clear pine and cedar which the Mormons brought to town sold at a premium everywhere. Coin was scarce and barter played an important part in trade.
Merchants took lumber in exchange for goods and stacked it alongside their stores, there being no lumber yard in the Los Angeles of the 1850s.
STOOD 50 YEARS The flour mill, at Mill and Allen streets, was remodeled after the 1862 flood and was operated for years. The building was still standing some 50 years after its erection and is recalled today by many senior residents of San Bernardino. Why go to Mill creek for lumber when directly above San Bernardino there were innumerable mountains literally covered with good lumber? Only a road was needed to reach this seemingly unlimited supply of building material, so it is not surprising to learn that in 1852 the colony and church heads selected the route for a road up Waterman canyon. Today, about 100 yards below the Crestline overpass, there is a monument marking the Mormon road.
The motorist who stops and looks up the canyon toward Crestline can see the old roadbed which followed the canyon side at a grade of something over 20 per cent. That roadbed was built by pick and shovel nearly 100 years ago by the pioneer settlers who turned out day after day contributing their labor for the good of the colony. It is the only early day mountain route not built by private parties and operated as a toll road.
1,000 DAYS OF WORK The church and colony leaders reported the building of the road "would be simple." We know it was anything but that. To men who had conquered the deserts and mountains between San Bernardino and Salt Lake, however, the obstacles appeared not too great in view of the goal.
There is a written item of the period that says 1,000 days of labor were expended to build the road in its earliest crude form and that much more labor was needed after the wheat harvest to make it safe.
History in the Making Lumbering Booms As Road Built to Mountain Crest (This is the twenty-eighth of a series of articles about the history of San Bernardino county which are appearing Sundays in The Sun-Telegram simultaneously with the centennial of Mormon colonization of the San Bernardino valley.) By L. BURR BELDEN The pioneer industries of San Bernardino, the flour mill on Mill street, and Daniel Sexton's sawmill in Mill creek were soon to have company. In May of 1853 Amasa Lyman, Charles C. Rich and Theodore Thorpe started on a second sawmill in Mill creek canyon, farther upstream than Vignes and Sexton mill. Timber was better but a road had to be built.
In October good clear pine was delivered to Lyman from the new mill. The Lyman mill, commonly called the Mormon mill in later years, was located between the present Igo's store and Forest Home. It was wrecked by the 1862 flood but its ruins were visible at least a decade and a half later. Good quality lumber was all but unknown in Los Angeles and the clear pine and cedar which the Mormons brought to town sold at a premium everywhere. Coin was scarce and barter played an important part in trade.
Merchants took lumber in exchange for goods and stacked it alongside their stores, there being no lumber yard in the Los Angeles of the 1850s.
STOOD 50 YEARS The flour mill, at Mill and Allen streets, was remodeled after the 1862 flood and was operated for years. The building was still standing some 50 years after its erection and is recalled today by many senior residents of San Bernardino. Why go to Mill creek for lumber when directly above San Bernardino there were innumerable mountains literally covered with good lumber? Only a road was needed to reach this seemingly unlimited supply of building material, so it is not surprising to learn that in 1852 the colony and church heads selected the route for a road up Waterman canyon. Today, about 100 yards below the Crestline overpass, there is a monument marking the Mormon road.
The motorist who stops and looks up the canyon toward Crestline can see the old roadbed which followed the canyon side at a grade of something over 20 per cent. That roadbed was built by pick and shovel nearly 100 years ago by the pioneer settlers who turned out day after day contributing their labor for the good of the colony. It is the only early day mountain route not built by private parties and operated as a toll road.
1,000 DAYS OF WORK The church and colony leaders reported the building of the road "would be simple." We know it was anything but that. To men who had conquered the deserts and mountains between San Bernardino and Salt Lake, however, the obstacles appeared not too great in view of the goal.
There is a written item of the period that says 1,000 days of labor were expended to build the road in its earliest crude form and that much more labor was needed after the wheat harvest to make it safe.
I just wanted to take a minute to thank Phil Lyman (Francis Marvin, Marvin Finlinson, Walter Clisbee, Amasa and Caroline Partridge) for his good example and leadership. I am not here to persuade, or get into politics, but I want to say thanks for honoring your Lyman family name.
https://lymanforutah.com/
If you have time this PDF below is a very interesting read, Mormon story starts on p 4, or at https://www.sbcity.org/about/history/sesquicentennial_1810-1960
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Francis (in dark suit because he didn't have prison robes to fit him) The picture says it was his turn to conduct Sunday School services.
AML Quote of the Week: 12-2-55 If toiling, and laboring, and suffering privations and hardships were sufficient to save men, and place within their possession the constituent principles of happiness to redeem them from evil, such men would have been redeemed very likely; such men would have been pure. But what does it prove? It simply proves, that if there is anything in a man's experience; in his toiling and labor, it is simply the facts that we see, the outward result that may be calculated, that flows from his labors, such as the building of houses, and cities.
He may suffer toil in various ways: for instance, as in preaching the Gospel and trying with all his might to get the people to believe that which they ought to believe; to get them to serve God, and keep His commandments. If there is anything but this results from his labor and toil in the Gospel I am not aware of it. By and by he lays his body down in the dust, his work is not completed, and he is unhappy and wretched.
Why is it? Is it because the Gospel is untrue; because He is not faithful that has promised? No. But it is simply because he has been looking where it is not, for the constituent principles of happiness where they do not exist: and while he has been laboring and toiling he has failed to gather to himself a store of happiness as the reward of his toil. He supposed if he built this house, performed this mission, or discharged that duty, that this would give him salvation. Says one, "Is it not this which gives men salvation?" What does the Savior say? He once on a time defined what eternal life is; and that is what we all seek; that is the principle without which we as Latter-day Saints calculate that men cannot be happy, and be saved in the kingdom of God, which is to know the only true God, and, Jesus Christ whom He has sent.
He may suffer toil in various ways: for instance, as in preaching the Gospel and trying with all his might to get the people to believe that which they ought to believe; to get them to serve God, and keep His commandments. If there is anything but this results from his labor and toil in the Gospel I am not aware of it. By and by he lays his body down in the dust, his work is not completed, and he is unhappy and wretched.
Why is it? Is it because the Gospel is untrue; because He is not faithful that has promised? No. But it is simply because he has been looking where it is not, for the constituent principles of happiness where they do not exist: and while he has been laboring and toiling he has failed to gather to himself a store of happiness as the reward of his toil. He supposed if he built this house, performed this mission, or discharged that duty, that this would give him salvation. Says one, "Is it not this which gives men salvation?" What does the Savior say? He once on a time defined what eternal life is; and that is what we all seek; that is the principle without which we as Latter-day Saints calculate that men cannot be happy, and be saved in the kingdom of God, which is to know the only true God, and, Jesus Christ whom He has sent.
AML Quote from Last Week: 12-9-55 Then if we wish to read the history of his Father, we have only to read the history of the son; for in reading the history of the son, we also read the history of the Father; and Jesus Christ has told us, his brethren, that this is eternal life to know the only living and true God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. What does that lead to? Not only to know that they had the truth, but to understand and comprehend the principle upon which they possessed it; whether it was truth inherent——that dwells in them from all eternity, without beginning or end, in the history of their existence——when they commenced to acquire knowledge. and whether they acquired knowledge of this great truth as we are taught to acquire it.
Now that this was the highest object that was had in view in the proclamation of the Gospel——in its revelation to mankind——is obvious to me, it is as plain to me, as I can see anything else. Because, when man has learned the truth, in relation to all these things, is there anything more which he can learn? No. It is the vast infinitude of truth that has reflected light enough around us to open our minds, and enable us to entertain a conception of nothing higher, more noble, nothing possessing greater excellencies than simply the truth itself.
We talk about holiness, and glory, and power, and might, but there is no power, but what is of truth, no greatness, no uncontaminated bliss but what is of truth. It embraces the sum of all the excellencies combined in the wide range universal existence; whether applied to a mote or a mountain; to a single planet, to a universe or to an association of universes.
To learn the truth is the best thing we can do, it is a pursuit fraught with the greatest good to us, for it will bring salvation to us, and bestow upon us the bliss, and blessedness of that state in full; and enable us to appreciate it, for we shall have the light of truth to discover things as they exist around us." And this is in fact our happiness, glory, and strength.
Now that this was the highest object that was had in view in the proclamation of the Gospel——in its revelation to mankind——is obvious to me, it is as plain to me, as I can see anything else. Because, when man has learned the truth, in relation to all these things, is there anything more which he can learn? No. It is the vast infinitude of truth that has reflected light enough around us to open our minds, and enable us to entertain a conception of nothing higher, more noble, nothing possessing greater excellencies than simply the truth itself.
We talk about holiness, and glory, and power, and might, but there is no power, but what is of truth, no greatness, no uncontaminated bliss but what is of truth. It embraces the sum of all the excellencies combined in the wide range universal existence; whether applied to a mote or a mountain; to a single planet, to a universe or to an association of universes.
To learn the truth is the best thing we can do, it is a pursuit fraught with the greatest good to us, for it will bring salvation to us, and bestow upon us the bliss, and blessedness of that state in full; and enable us to appreciate it, for we shall have the light of truth to discover things as they exist around us." And this is in fact our happiness, glory, and strength.
What a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the Francis Marion Lyman Book, it has been made available for your pleasure "free" at the AML E&H Society Tab above, under Publications. Please enjoy
Many people know that apostle, Amasa Mason Lyman, was excommunicated, but few know that his membership was posthumously reinstated because of a dream. You can get the DVD about his life, "A Labor of Love," just go to the store for ordering information.
A clip from the DVD about Amasa...