DOLBEER & CARSON LUMBER COMPANY
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Short History: The Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company
The Northern California concern came about as a result of the efforts of its founding partners John Dolbeer and William Carson. They both became very successful, if not influential. John Dolbeer, with the help of Carson, invented, and held the patient on, the vertical boilered steam donkey with side spool. This device revolutionized the logging industry in terms of moving saw logs and equipment through the woods, running mill equipment and doing th many heavy tasks required in the business. They held many thousands of acres (7,863 reported at one time) of timber holding properties. They built a large and well equipped 167 Ft. ocean going schooner, "the Wanowa", in 1897 and provided lumber transportation up and down the West Coast. (the ship remains to this day, a historical tribute to the past. The famed hotel "Wanowa" near Yosemite saw their influence. Their railroad, the Humbolt Northern, was the key transportation link which opened up their vast holdings to the commerce and industry all up and down the Pacific Coast.
Image, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. 2-6-2 #2 Order No. DCLC02I June, 1935, belived to be in their engine-house near Eureka, California. 2-6-2 locomotive #2 was captured at rest. Though the shot is somewhat out of focus it serves to demonstrate one of the many 2-6-2 logging engines used throughout the forest industry. Though information is scarce, the #2 was believed to have been ordered from Baldwin in 1922 along with at least sister 2-6-2 locomotive #3. ------------------- D&C HEISLER #5
Image, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. Heisler #5 Order No. DCLC05I Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company 2-trk Heisler #5 sits on a siding waiting to go into service. This Heisler, construction #1446, was originally built in 1921 as #9 for the well known Mount Tamalpias & Muir Woods Railway. It saw service on the Siskiyou Lumber Company as No. 1 before coming to the S&CLBRCo. Today it resides in Scotia, California.
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