Interview: Fred Ellis
Title: West Side Lumber Company [sound recording] : a tape recorded interview / Columbia College.
Interviewee: Ellis, Fred
Recording Location: Sonora, CA
Date Recorded: May 12, 1971
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Direct Link: https://apps.gocolumbia.edu/oralhistory/listen?52
Call Number: F868 .T915 E477 1971
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (2 audio files (58 min., 85 sec.).
Series Title: (Columbia Colllege oral history series)
General Notes:
Contents: Biographical information -- Employment in San Francisco as a surveyor -- Move to Tuolumne County, surveyor for West Side Lumber Co. -- Building bridges -- Effect of the depression on lumbering -- Vice President, 1934 -- Timber used in industry -- President, West Side Lumber Company -- Equipment used in hauling logs -- Purchase of steam locomotives -- Narrow guage railroad lines -- Conclusion.
Local Notes: None
Held By: COLUMBIA
Geographic Term: Logging|zTuolumne County (Calif.)|xHistory.
Geographic Term: Tuolumne (Calif.)|xHistory|vPersonal narratives.
Geographic Term: Sonora (Calif.)|xHistory|vPersonal narratives.
Geographic Term: Tuolumne County (Calif.)|xHistory|vPersonal narratives.